# Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography

The Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography (Chinese: 金馬獎最佳攝影) is given at the Golden Horse Film Awards, a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. From the 1st Golden Horse Awards in 1962 to the 14th Golden Horse Awards in 1977, this award was called the Golden Horse Award for Best Color Cinematography. During that time, a Golden Horse Award for Best Black and White Cinematography was also awarded 5 times.

## Superlatives

Since 1990, the following cinematographers have received two or more Best Cinematography awards:
| Wins | Cinematographer |
| 7 | Mark Lee Ping Bin |
| 4 | Christopher Doyle |
| 2 | Poon Hang-Sang |
| 2 | Cao Yu |

## Winners and nominees

    Note: Original titles are in traditional Chinese.

### 1990s

| Year | Winner and Nominees | Film | Original Title |
| 1990 (27th) |
| 1990 (27th) | Poon Hang-Sang | Red Dust | 滾滾紅塵 |
| 1991 (28th) |
| 1991 (28th) | Poon Hang-Sang | Center Stage | 阮玲玉 |
| 1992 (29th) |
| 1992 (29th) | Lee Tak-Shing | Misty | 霧都情仇 |
| 1993 (30th) |
| 1993 (30th) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | The Puppetmaster | 戲夢人生 |
| 1994 (31st) |
| 1994 (31st) | Christopher Doyle | Ashes of Time | 東邪西毒 |
| 1995 (32nd) |
| 1995 (32nd) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | Summer Snow | 女人四十 |
| 1996 (33rd) |
| 1996 (33rd) | Gu Changwei | In the Heat of the Sun | 陽光燦爛的日子 |
| 1997 (34th) |
| 1997 (34th) | Christopher Doyle | Happy Together | 春光乍洩 |
| 1998 (35th) |
| 1998 (35th) | Jingle Ma | City of Glass | 玻璃之城 |
| 1999 (36th) |
| 1999 (36th) | Arthur Wong | Purple Storm | 紫雨風暴 |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and Nominees | Film | Original Title |
| 2000 (37th) |
| 2000 (37th) | Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping Bin | In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華 |
| 2001 (38th) |
| 2001 (38th) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | Millennium Mambo | 千禧曼波 |
| 2002 (39th) |
| 2002 (39th) | Christopher Doyle | Three: Going Home | 三更之回家 |
| 2003 (40th) |
| 2003 (40th) | Liao Pen-jung | The Missing | 不見 |
| 2004 (41st) |
| 2004 (41st) | Cao Yu | Kekexili: Mountain Patrol | 可可西里 |
| 2005 (42nd) |
| 2005 (42nd) | Anthony Pun | Divergence | 三岔口 |
| 2006 (43rd) |
| 2006 (43rd) | Peter Pau | Perhaps Love | 如果·愛 |
| 2007 (44th) |
| 2007 (44th) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | The Matrimony | 心中有鬼 |
| 2008 (45th) |
| 2008 (45th) | Cheng Siu-Keung | Sparrow | 文雀 |
| 2009 (46th) |
| 2009 (46th) | Cao Yu | City of Life and Death | 南京！南京！ |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and Nominees | Film | Original Title |
| 2010 (47th) |
| 2010 (47th) | Chang Chan | When Love Comes | 當愛來的時候 |
| 2011 (48th) |
| 2011 (48th) | Zhao Fei | Let the Bullets Fly | 讓子彈飛 |
| 2011 (48th) | Yao Hung-i | Hometown Boy | 金城小子 |
| 2011 (48th) | Chin Ting-Chang | Seediq Bale | 賽德克·巴萊 |
| 2011 (48th) | Shu Chou | The Piano in a Factory | 鋼的琴 |
| 2012 (49th) |
| 2012 (49th) | Wu Di | Beijing Blues | 神探亨特張 |
| 2012 (49th) | Lutz Reitemeier | White Deer Plain | 白鹿原 |
| 2012 (49th) | Cao Dun | Love Is Not Blind | 失戀33天 |
| 2012 (49th) | Jake Pollock | Girlfriend, Boyfriend | 女朋友。男朋友 |
| 2012 (49th) | Song Xiaofei | Design Of Death | 殺生 |
| 2013 (50th) |
| 2013 (50th) | Philippe Le Sourd | The Grandmaster | 一代宗師 |
| 2013 (50th) | Nagao Nakashima | Soul | 失魂 |
| 2013 (50th) | Lü Yue | Back to 1942 | 一九四二 |
| 2013 (50th) | Yu Lik-wai | A Touch of Sin | 天註定 |
| 2013 (50th) | Liao Pen-jung, Lu Ching-hsin and Shong Woon-chong | Stray Dogs | 郊遊 |
| 2014 (51st) |
| 2014 (51st) | Zeng Jian | Blind Massage | 推拿 |
| 2014 (51st) | Dong Jingsong | Black Coal, Thin Ice | 白日焰火 |
| 2014 (51st) | Du Jie | No Man's Land | 無人區 |
| 2014 (51st) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | (Sex) Appeal | 寒蟬效應 |
| 2014 (51st) | Zhang Ji | North by Northeast | 東北偏北 |
| 2015 (52nd) |
| 2015 (52nd) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 |
| 2015 (52nd) | Hsu Chih-Chun and Chang Chih-Teng | Thanatos, Drunk | 醉.生夢死 |
| 2015 (52nd) | Christopher Doyle | Port of Call | 踏血尋梅 |
| 2015 (52nd) | Lu Songye | Tharlo | 塔洛 |
| 2015 (52nd) | Yu Lik-wai | Mountains May Depart | 山河故人 |
| 2016 (53rd) |
| 2016 (53rd) | Mark Lee Ping Bin | Crosscurrent | 長江圖 |
| 2016 (53rd) | Du Jie | Detective Chinatown | 唐人街探案 |
| 2016 (53rd) | Nagao Nakashima | Godspeed | 一路順風 |
| 2016 (53rd) | Lu Songye | The Summer Is Gone | 八月 |
| 2016 (53rd) | Guo Daming | Soul on a String | 皮繩上的魂 |
| 2017 (54th) |
| 2017 (54th) | Nagao Nakashima | The Great Buddha+ | 大佛普拉斯 |
| 2017 (54th) | Wang Weihua | Free and Easy | 轻松+愉快 |
| 2017 (54th) | Chen Ko-chin | Shuttle Life | 分貝人生 |
| 2017 (54th) | Matthias Delvaux | Old Beast | 老獸 |
| 2017 (54th) | Peter Pau and Cao Yu | See You Tomorrow | 擺渡人 |