# Satellite Award for Best Cinematography

The Satellite Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 1996 | The English Patient | John Seale |
| 1996 | Breaking the Waves | Robby Müller |
| 1996 | Evita | Darius Khondji |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Alex Thomson |
| 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Donald M. McAlpine |
| 1997 | Amistad | Janusz Kamiński |
| 1997 | Contact | Don Burgess |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou | Amy Vincent |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Dante Spinotti |
| 1997 | Titanic | Russell Carpenter |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | John Toll |
| 1998 | Beloved | Tak Fujimoto |
| 1998 | Pleasantville | John Lindley |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan | Janusz Kamiński |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Richard Greatrex |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 1999 | American Beauty | Conrad L. Hall |
| 1999 | Anna and the King | Caleb Deschanel |
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Larry Smith |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Robert Richardson |
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | John Seale |

### 2000s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer(s) |
| 2000 | Gladiator | John Mathieson |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) | Peter Pau |
| 2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Michael Ballhaus |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
| 2000 | Traffic | Peter Andrews |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Roger Deakins |
| 2001 | Hearts in Atlantis | Piotr Sobociński |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2001 | Moulin Rouge! | Donald M. McAlpine |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | John Schwartzman |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | Conrad L. Hall |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Edward Lachman |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Michael Ballhaus |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai | John Toll |
| 2003 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Eduardo Serra |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Andrew Lesnie |
| 2003 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Russell Boyd and Sandi Sissel |
| 2003 | Mystic River | Tom Stern |
| 2003 | Seabiscuit | John Schwartzman |
| 2004 | House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) | Xiaoding Zhao |
| 2004 | The Aviator | Robert Richardson |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2004 | The Phantom of the Opera | John Mathieson |
| 2004 | Spider-Man 2 | Bill Pope and Anette Haellmigk |
| 2004 | A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2005 | The Constant Gardener | César Charlone |
| 2005 | 2046 | Christopher Doyle |
| 2005 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Philippe Rousselot |
| 2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck | Robert Elswit |
| 2005 | Kung Fu Hustle (Kung Fu) | Hang Sang Poon |
| 2005 | Memoirs of a Geisha | Dion Beebe |
| 2005 | Sin City | Robert Rodriguez |
| 2006 | Flags of Our Fathers | Tom Stern |
| 2006 | The Black Dahlia | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| 2006 | Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) | Xiaoding Zhao |
| 2006 | The Fountain | Matthew Libatique |
| 2006 | A Good Year | Philippe Le Sourd |
| 2006 | The House of Sand (Casa de areia) | Ricardo Della Rosa |
| 2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Dante Spinotti |
| 2007 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2007 | Across the Universe | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Roger Deakins |
| 2007 | The Golden Compass | Henry Braham |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Robert Elswit |
| 2007 | Zodiac | Harris Savides |
| 2008 | Australia | Mandy Walker |
| 2008 | Brideshead Revisited | Jess Hall |
| 2008 | Changeling | Tom Stern |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Claudio Miranda |
| 2008 | The Duchess | Gyula Pados |
| 2008 | Snow Angels | Tim Orr |
| 2009 | Nine | Dion Beebe |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Robert Richardson |
| 2009 | It Might Get Loud | Guillermo Navarro and Erich Roland |
| 2009 | Public Enemies | Dante Spinotti |
| 2009 | Red Cliff (Chi bi) | Lü Yue and Zhang Li |
| 2009 | A Serious Man | Roger Deakins |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer(s) |
| 2010 | Inception | Wally Pfister |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak |
| 2010 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | Eduardo Serra |
| 2010 | I Am Love | Yorick Le Saux |
| 2010 | Salt | Robert Elswit |
| 2010 | Secretariat | Dean Semler |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Robert Richardson |
| 2010 | Unstoppable | Ben Seresin |
| 2011 | War Horse | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2011 | The Artist | Guillaume Schiffman |
| 2011 | Drive | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| 2011 | Faust | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2011 | Hugo | Robert Richardson |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2012 | Life of Pi | Claudio Miranda |
| 2012 | Anna Karenina | Seamus McGarvey |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Ben Richardson |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2012 | The Master | Mihai Mălaimare Jr. |
| 2012 | Skyfall | Roger Deakins |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Sean Bobbitt |
| 2013 | Gravity | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Roger Deakins |
| 2013 | Rush | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| 2013 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Stuart Dryburgh |
| 2014 | Mr. Turner | Dick Pope |
| 2014 | Birdman | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Jeff Cronenweth |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Robert Elswit |
| 2014 | Interstellar | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything | Benoît Delhomme |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | John Seale |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | Janusz Kamiński |
| 2015 | The Martian | Dariusz Wolski |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2015 | Sicario | Roger Deakins |
| 2015 | Spectre | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2016 | The Jungle Book | Bill Pope |
| 2016 | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | John Toll |
| 2016 | Hacksaw Ridge | Simon Duggan |
| 2016 | The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies) | Jani-Petteri Passi |
| 2016 | La La Land | Linus Sandgren |
| 2016 | Moonlight | James Laxton |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Roger Deakins |
| 2017 | Darkest Hour | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Sam Levy |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Dan Laustsen |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Ben Davis |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Matthew Libatique |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Rachel Morrison |
| 2018 | Cold War | Łukasz Żal |
| 2018 | The Favourite | Robbie Ryan |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | James Laxton |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2019 | 1917 | Roger Deakins |
| 2019 | Ford v Ferrari | Phedon Papamichael |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2019 | Joker | Lawrence Sher |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn | Dick Pope |
| 2019 | Rocketman | George Richmond |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Cinematographer |
| 2020 | Mank | Erik Messerschmidt |
| 2020 | The Midnight Sky | Martin Ruhe |
| 2020 | News of the World | Dariusz Wolski |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Joshua James Richards |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... | Tami Reiker |
| 2020 | Tenet | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2021 | Dune | Greig Fraser |
| 2021 | Belfast | Haris Zambarloukos |
| 2021 | C'mon C'mon | Robbie Ryan |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Ari Wegner |
| 2021 | tick, tick... BOOM! | Alice Brooks |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Claudio Miranda |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Russell Carpenter |
| 2022 | Babylon | Linus Sandgren |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Ben Davis |
| 2022 | Elvis | Mandy Walker |
| 2022 | Empire of Light | Roger Deakins |
| 2023 | Maestro | Matthew Libatique |
| 2023 | Ferrari | Erik Messerschmidt |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Rodrigo Prieto |
| 2023 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Fraser Taggart |
| 2023 | Napoleon | Dariusz Wolski |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Hoyte van Hoytema |
| 2023 | Saltburn | Linus Sandgren |