# BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

The BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the annual British Academy Film Awards to recognize a cinematographer who has delivered outstanding cinematography in a film.
BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1963, selected cinematographers have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Cinematography at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

## Winners and nominees
### 1960s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 1963 (17th) | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Best Cinematography – Black and White |
| 1963 (17th) | The Servant | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1963 (17th) | Billy Liar | Denys N. Coop |
| 1963 (17th) | Heavens Above! | Mutz Greenbaum |
| 1963 (17th) | Station Six-Sahara | Gerald Gibbs |
| 1963 (17th) | The Victors | Christopher Challis |
| Best Cinematography – Colour ||
| 1963 (17th) | From Russia with Love | Ted Moore |
| 1963 (17th) | Nine Hours to Rama | Arthur Ibbetson |
| 1963 (17th) | The Running Man | Robert Krasker |
| 1963 (17th) | Sammy Going South | Erwin Hillier |
| 1963 (17th) | The Scarlet Blade | Jack Asher |
| 1963 (17th) | Tamahine | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1963 (17th) | The V.I.P.s | Jack Hildyard |
| 1964 (18th) | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Best Cinematography – Black and White |
| 1964 (18th) | The Pumpkin Eater | Oswald Morris |
| 1964 (18th) | Guns at Batasi | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1964 (18th) | King & Country | Denys N. Coop |
| 1964 (18th) | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Gerry Turpin |
| Best Cinematography – Colour ||
| 1964 (18th) | Becket | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1964 (18th) | The Chalk Garden | Arthur Ibbetson |
| 1964 (18th) | Nothing but the Best | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1964 (18th) | The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Jack Hildyard |
| 1964 (18th) | The 7th Dawn | Freddie Young |
| 1965 (19th) | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Best Cinematography – Black and White |
| 1965 (19th) | The Hill | Oswald Morris |
| 1965 (19th) | Darling | Kenneth Higgins |
| 1965 (19th) | The Knack ...and How to Get It | David Watkin |
| 1965 (19th) | Repulsion | Gilbert Taylor |
| Best Cinematography – Colour ||
| 1965 (19th) | The Ipcress File | Otto Heller |
| 1965 (19th) | Help! | David Watkin |
| 1965 (19th) | Lord Jim | Freddie Young |
| 1965 (19th) | Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines; Or, How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Christopher Challis |
| 1966 (20th) | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Best Cinematography – Black and White |
| 1966 (20th) | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Oswald Morris |
| 1966 (20th) | Bunny Lake Is Missing | Denys N. Coop |
| 1966 (20th) | Cul-de-sac | Gilbert Taylor |
| 1966 (20th) | Georgy Girl | Kenneth Higgins |
| Best Cinematography – Colour ||
| 1966 (20th) | Arabesque | Christopher Challis |
| 1966 (20th) | Alfie | Otto Heller |
| 1966 (20th) | The Blue Max | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1966 (20th) | Modesty Blaise | Jack Hildyard |
| 1967 (21st) | Best Cinematography – Black and White | Best Cinematography – Black and White |
| 1967 (21st) | The Whisperers | Gerry Turpin |
| 1967 (21st) | Mademoiselle | David Watkin |
| 1967 (21st) | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Raoul Coutard |
| 1967 (21st) | Ulysses | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
| Best Cinematography – Colour ||
| 1967 (21st) | A Man for All Seasons | Ted Moore |
| 1967 (21st) | Blow-up | Carlo Di Palma |
| 1967 (21st) | The Deadly Affair | Freddie Young |
| 1967 (21st) | Far from the Madding Crowd | Nicolas Roeg |
| Best Cinematography |||
| 1968 (22nd) | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1968 (22nd) | Elvira Madigan | Jörgen Persson |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Charge of the Light Brigade | David Watkin |
| 1968 (22nd) | The Lion in Winter | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1969 (23rd) | Oh! What a Lovely War | Gerry Turpin |
| 1969 (23rd) | Bullitt | William A. Fraker |
| 1969 (23rd) | Funny Girl Hello, Dolly! | Harry Stradling |
| 1969 (23rd) | The Magus Women in Love | Billy Williams |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 1970 (24th) | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Conrad L. Hall |
| 1970 (24th) | Catch-22 | David Watkin |
| 1970 (24th) | Ryan's Daughter | Freddie Young |
| 1970 (24th) | Waterloo | Armando Nannuzzi |
| 1971 (25th) | Death in Venice | Pasqualino De Santis |
| 1971 (25th) | Fiddler on the Roof | Oswald Morris |
| 1971 (25th) | The Go-Between | Gerry Fisher |
| 1971 (25th) | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Billy Williams |
| 1972 (26th) | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cabaret | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1972 (26th) | A Clockwork Orange | John Alcott |
| 1972 (26th) | Deliverance Images McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| 1972 (26th) | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Ennio Guarnieri |
| 1973 (27th) | Don't Look Now | Anthony B. Richmond |
| 1973 (27th) | Cries and Whispers | Sven Nykvist |
| 1973 (27th) | Jesus Christ Superstar Travels with My Aunt | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1973 (27th) | Sleuth | Oswald Morris |
| 1974 (28th) | The Great Gatsby | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1974 (28th) | Chinatown | John A. Alonzo |
| 1974 (28th) | Murder on the Orient Express Zardoz | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1974 (28th) | The Three Musketeers | David Watkin |
| 1975 (29th) | Barry Lyndon | John Alcott |
| 1975 (29th) | The Man Who Would Be King | Oswald Morris |
| 1975 (29th) | Rollerball | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1975 (29th) | The Towering Inferno | Fred J. Koenekamp |
| 1976 (30th) | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Russell Boyd |
| 1976 (30th) | Aces High | Peter Allwork and Gerry Fisher |
| 1976 (30th) | All the President's Men | Gordon Willis |
| 1976 (30th) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Bill Butler, William A. Fraker and Haskell Wexler |
| 1977 (31st) | A Bridge Too Far | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1977 (31st) | The Deep | Christopher Challis |
| 1977 (31st) | Fellini's Casanova | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| 1977 (31st) | Valentino | Peter Suschitzky |
| 1978 (32nd) | Julia | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1978 (32nd) | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| 1978 (32nd) | The Duellists | Frank Tidy |
| 1978 (32nd) | Superman | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1979 (33rd) | The Deer Hunter | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| 1979 (33rd) | Apocalypse Now | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1979 (33rd) | Manhattan | Gordon Willis |
| 1979 (33rd) | Yanks | Dick Bush |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 1980 (34th) | All That Jazz | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| 1980 (34th) | The Black Stallion | Caleb Deschanel |
| 1980 (34th) | The Elephant Man | Freddie Francis |
| 1980 (34th) | Kagemusha | Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda |
| 1981 (35th) | Tess | Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1981 (35th) | Chariots of Fire | David Watkin |
| 1981 (35th) | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Freddie Francis |
| 1981 (35th) | Raiders of the Lost Ark | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1982 (36th) | Blade Runner | Jordan Cronenweth |
| 1982 (36th) | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Allen Daviau |
| 1982 (36th) | Gandhi | Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams |
| 1982 (36th) | Reds | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1983 (37th) | Fanny and Alexander | Sven Nykvist |
| 1983 (37th) | Heat and Dust | Walter Lassally |
| 1983 (37th) | Local Hero | Chris Menges |
| 1983 (37th) | Zelig | Gordon Willis |
| 1984 (38th) | The Killing Fields | Chris Menges |
| 1984 (38th) | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | John Alcott |
| 1984 (38th) | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Douglas Slocombe |
| 1984 (38th) | Once Upon a Time in America | Tonino Delli Colli |
| 1985 (39th) | Amadeus | Miroslav Ondříček |
| 1985 (39th) | The Emerald Forest | Philippe Rousselot |
| 1985 (39th) | A Passage to India | Ernest Day |
| 1985 (39th) | Witness | John Seale |
| 1986 (40th) | Out of Africa | David Watkin |
| 1986 (40th) | The Mission | Chris Menges |
| 1986 (40th) | Ran | Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda |
| 1986 (40th) | A Room with a View | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| 1987 (41st) | Jean de Florette | Bruno Nuytten |
| 1987 (41st) | Cry Freedom | Ronnie Taylor |
| 1987 (41st) | Hope and Glory | Philippe Rousselot |
| 1987 (41st) | Platoon | Robert Richardson |
| 1988 (42nd) | Empire of the Sun | Allen Daviau |
| 1988 (42nd) | Babettes gæstebud | Henning Kristiansen |
| 1988 (42nd) | The Last Emperor | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1988 (42nd) | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Dean Cundey |
| 1989 (43rd) | Mississippi Burning | Peter Biziou |
| 1989 (43rd) | Dangerous Liaisons | Philippe Rousselot |
| 1989 (43rd) | Gorillas in the Mist | Alan Root and John Seale |
| 1989 (43rd) | Henry V | Kenneth MacMillan |
| 1989 (43rd) | The Bear | Philippe Rousselot |

### 1990s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 1990 (44th) | The Sheltering Sky | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1990 (44th) | Goodfellas | Michael Ballhaus |
| 1990 (44th) | Glory | Freddie Francis |
| 1990 (44th) | Cinema Paradiso | Blasco Giurato |
| 1991 (45th) | Cyrano de Bergerac | Pierre Lhomme |
| 1991 (45th) | Thelma & Louise | Adrian Biddle |
| 1991 (45th) | The Silence of the Lambs | Tak Fujimoto |
| 1991 (45th) | Dances with Wolves | Dean Semler |
| 1992 (46th) | The Last of the Mohicans | Dante Spinotti |
| 1992 (46th) | Cape Fear | Freddie Francis |
| 1992 (46th) | Unforgiven | Jack N. Green |
| 1992 (46th) | Howards End | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| 1993 (47th) | Schindler's List | Janusz Kamiński |
| 1993 (47th) | The Age of Innocence | Michael Ballhaus |
| 1993 (47th) | The Piano | Stuart Dryburgh |
| 1993 (47th) | The Remains of the Day | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| 1994 (48th) | Interview with the Vampire | Philippe Rousselot |
| 1994 (48th) | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Brian J. Breheny |
| 1994 (48th) | Forrest Gump | Don Burgess |
| 1994 (48th) | Pulp Fiction | Andrzej Sekuła |
| 1995 (49th) | Braveheart | John Toll |
| 1995 (49th) | Sense and Sensibility | Michael Coulter |
| 1995 (49th) | Apollo 13 | Dean Cundey |
| 1995 (49th) | The Madness of King George | Andrew Dunn |
| 1996 (50th) | The English Patient | John Seale |
| 1996 (50th) | Fargo | Roger Deakins |
| 1996 (50th) | Evita | Darius Khondji |
| 1996 (50th) | Michael Collins | Chris Menges |
| 1997 (51st) | The Wings of the Dove | Eduardo Serra |
| 1997 (51st) | Titanic | Russell Carpenter |
| 1997 (51st) | Romeo + Juliet | Donald McAlpine |
| 1997 (51st) | L.A. Confidential | Dante Spinotti |
| 1998 (52nd) | Elizabeth | Remi Adefarasin |
| 1998 (52nd) | The Truman Show | Peter Biziou |
| 1998 (52nd) | Shakespeare in Love | Richard Greatrex |
| 1998 (52nd) | Saving Private Ryan | Janusz Kamiński |
| 1999 (53rd) | American Beauty | Conrad L. Hall |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Matrix | Bill Pope |
| 1999 (53rd) | The End of the Affair | Roger Pratt |
| 1999 (53rd) | The Talented Mr. Ripley | John Seale |
| 1999 (53rd) | Angela's Ashes | Michael Seresin |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 2000 (54th) | Gladiator | John Mathieson |
| 2000 (54th) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Roger Deakins |
| 2000 (54th) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Peter Pau |
| 2000 (54th) | Chocolat | Roger Pratt |
| 2000 (54th) | Billy Elliot | Brian Tufano |
| 2001 (55th) | The Man Who Wasn't There | Roger Deakins |
| 2001 (55th) | Amélie | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2001 (55th) | Black Hawk Down | Sławomir Idziak |
| 2001 (55th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2001 (55th) | Moulin Rouge! | Donald McAlpine |
| 2002 (56th) | Road to Perdition | Conrad L. Hall |
| 2002 (56th) | Gangs of New York | Michael Ballhaus |
| 2002 (56th) | Chicago | Dion Beebe |
| 2002 (56th) | The Pianist | Paweł Edelman |
| 2002 (56th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2003 (57th) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2003 (57th) | Lost in Translation | Lance Acord |
| 2003 (57th) | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Russell Boyd |
| 2003 (57th) | Cold Mountain | John Seale |
| 2003 (57th) | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Eduardo Serra |
| 2004 (58th) | Collateral | Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron |
| 2004 (58th) | The Motorcycle Diaries | Éric Gautier |
| 2004 (58th) | The Aviator | Robert Richardson |
| 2004 (58th) | Finding Neverland | Roberto Schaefer |
| 2004 (58th) | House of Flying Daggers | Zhao Xiaoding |
| 2005 (59th) | Memoirs of a Geisha | Dion Beebe |
| 2005 (59th) | March of the Penguins | Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison |
| 2005 (59th) | The Constant Gardener | César Charlone |
| 2005 (59th) | Crash | J. Michael Muro |
| 2005 (59th) | Brokeback Mountain | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2006 (60th) | Children of Men | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2006 (60th) | United 93 | Barry Ackroyd |
| 2006 (60th) | Casino Royale | Phil Méheux |
| 2006 (60th) | Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo Navarro |
| 2006 (60th) | Babel | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2007 (61st) | No Country for Old Men | Roger Deakins |
| 2007 (61st) | There Will Be Blood | Robert Elswit |
| 2007 (61st) | Atonement | Seamus McGarvey |
| 2007 (61st) | American Gangster | Harris Savides |
| 2007 (61st) | The Bourne Ultimatum | Oliver Wood |
| 2008 (62nd) | Slumdog Millionaire | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Reader | Roger Deakins and Chris Menges |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Claudio Miranda |
| 2008 (62nd) | The Dark Knight | Wally Pfister |
| 2008 (62nd) | Changeling | Tom Stern |
| 2009 (63rd) | The Hurt Locker | Barry Ackroyd |
| 2009 (63rd) | The Road | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| 2009 (63rd) | Avatar | Mauro Fiore |
| 2009 (63rd) | District 9 | Trent Opaloch |
| 2009 (63rd) | Inglourious Basterds | Robert Richardson |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 2010 (64th) | True Grit | Roger Deakins |
| 2010 (64th) | 127 Hours | Enrique Chediak and Anthony Dod Mantle |
| 2010 (64th) | The King's Speech | Danny Cohen |
| 2010 (64th) | Black Swan | Matthew Libatique |
| 2010 (64th) | Inception | Wally Pfister |
| 2011 (65th) | The Artist | Guillaume Schiffman |
| 2011 (65th) | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Jeff Cronenweth |
| 2011 (65th) | War Horse | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2011 (65th) | Hugo | Robert Richardson |
| 2011 (65th) | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2012 (66th) | Life of Pi | Claudio Miranda |
| 2012 (66th) | Les Misérables | Danny Cohen |
| 2012 (66th) | Skyfall | Roger Deakins |
| 2012 (66th) | Lincoln | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2012 (66th) | Anna Karenina | Seamus McGarvey |
| 2013 (67th) | Gravity | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2013 (67th) | Captain Phillips | Barry Ackroyd |
| 2013 (67th) | 12 Years a Slave | Sean Bobbitt |
| 2013 (67th) | Inside Llewyn Davis | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2013 (67th) | Nebraska | Phedon Papamichael |
| 2014 (68th) | Birdman | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2014 (68th) | Ida | Ryszard Lenczewski and Łukasz Żal |
| 2014 (68th) | Mr. Turner | Dick Pope |
| 2014 (68th) | Interstellar | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2014 (68th) | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Robert Yeoman |
| 2015 (69th) | The Revenant | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2015 (69th) | Sicario | Roger Deakins |
| 2015 (69th) | Bridge of Spies | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2015 (69th) | Carol | Edward Lachman |
| 2015 (69th) | Mad Max: Fury Road | John Seale |
| 2016 (70th) | La La Land | Linus Sandgren |
| 2016 (70th) | Lion | Greig Fraser |
| 2016 (70th) | Nocturnal Animals | Seamus McGarvey |
| 2016 (70th) | Hell or High Water | Giles Nuttgens |
| 2016 (70th) | Arrival | Bradford Young |
| 2017 (71st) | Blade Runner 2049 | Roger Deakins |
| 2017 (71st) | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Ben Davis |
| 2017 (71st) | Darkest Hour | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2017 (71st) | The Shape of Water | Dan Laustsen |
| 2017 (71st) | Dunkirk | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2018 (72nd) | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2018 (72nd) | The Favourite | Robbie Ryan |
| 2018 (72nd) | First Man | Linus Sandgren |
| 2018 (72nd) | Bohemian Rhapsody | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| 2018 (72nd) | Cold War | Łukasz Żal |
| 2019 (73rd) | 1917 | Roger Deakins |
| 2019 (73rd) | Le Mans '66 | Phedon Papamichael |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Irishman | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2019 (73rd) | Joker | Lawrence Sher |
| 2019 (73rd) | The Lighthouse | Jarin Blaschke |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 2020 (74th) | Nomadland | Joshua James Richards |
| 2020 (74th) | Judas and the Black Messiah | Sean Bobbitt |
| 2020 (74th) | Mank | Erik Messerschmidt |
| 2020 (74th) | The Mauritanian | Alwin H. Küchler |
| 2020 (74th) | News of the World | Dariusz Wolski |
| 2021 (75th) | Dune | Greig Fraser |
| 2021 (75th) | Nightmare Alley | Dan Laustsen |
| 2021 (75th) | No Time to Die | Linus Sandgren |
| 2021 (75th) | The Power of the Dog | Ari Wegner |
| 2021 (75th) | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2022 (76th) | All Quiet on the Western Front | James Friend |
| 2022 (76th) | The Batman | Greig Fraser |
| 2022 (76th) | Elvis | Mandy Walker |
| 2022 (76th) | Empire of Light | Roger Deakins |
| 2022 (76th) | Top Gun: Maverick | Claudio Miranda |
| 2023 (77th) |
| 2023 (77th) | Oppenheimer | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2023 (77th) | Killers of the Flower Moon | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2023 (77th) | Maestro | Matthew Libatique |
| 2023 (77th) | Poor Things | Robbie Ryan |
| 2023 (77th) | The Zone of Interest | Łukasz Żal |
| 2024 (78th) |
| 2024 (78th) | The Brutalist | Lol Crawley |
| 2024 (78th) | Conclave | Stéphane Fontaine |
| 2024 (78th) | Dune: Part Two | Greig Fraser |
| 2024 (78th) | Emilia Pérez | Paul Guilhaume |
| 2024 (78th) | Nosferatu | Jarin Blaschke |