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BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

British film industry award

Summary

British film industry award

Field	Value
name	BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
image	Lol Crawley - IFFR 2025 (004).jpg
caption	The current recipient: Lol Crawley
awarded_for	Best Cinematography
presenter	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
location	United Kingdom
holder	Lol Crawley for The Brutalist (2024)
website	http://www.bafta.org/

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

1970s

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

1980s

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

1990s

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

2000s

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

2010s

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

2020s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
	Nomadland	Joshua James Richards
Judas and the Black Messiah	Sean Bobbitt
Mank	Erik Messerschmidt
The Mauritanian	Alwin H. Küchler
News of the World	Dariusz Wolski
	Dune	Greig Fraser
Nightmare Alley	Dan Laustsen
No Time to Die	Linus Sandgren
The Power of the Dog	Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth	Bruno Delbonnel
	All Quiet on the Western Front	James Friend
The Batman	Greig Fraser
Elvis	Mandy Walker
Empire of Light	Roger Deakins
Top Gun: Maverick	Claudio Miranda
Oppenheimer	Hoyte van Hoytema
Killers of the Flower Moon	Rodrigo Prieto
Maestro	Matthew Libatique
Poor Things	Robbie Ryan
The Zone of Interest	Łukasz Żal
The Brutalist	Lol Crawley
Conclave	Stéphane Fontaine
Dune: Part Two	Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez	Paul Guilhaume
Nosferatu	Jarin Blaschke
	Frankenstein	Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme	Darius Khondji
One Battle After Another	Michael Bauman
Sinners	Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams	Adolpho Veloso

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple nominations

;11 nominations

Roger Deakins

;10 nominations

Douglas Slocombe

;8 nominations

Geoffrey Unsworth
David Watkin

;6 nominations

Oswald Morris
John Seale

;5 nominations

Janusz Kaminski
Chris Menges
Philippe Rousselot

;4 nominations

Christopher Challis
Bruno Delbonnel
Freddie Francis
Greig Fraser
Hoyte van Hoytema
Emmanuel Lubezki
Rodrigo Prieto
Robert Richardson
Vittorio Storaro
Freddie Young ;3 nominations
Barry Ackroyd
John Alcott
Michael Ballhaus
Dion Beebe
Denys Coop
Conrad Hall
Jack Hildyard
Andrew Lesnie
Seamus McGarvey
Claudio Miranda
Tony Pierce-Roberts
Linus Sandgren
Gerry Turpin
Billy Williams
Gordon Willis
Łukasz Żal
Vilmos Zsigmond

;2 nominations

Peter Biziou
Jarin Blaschke
Sean Bobbitt
Russell Boyd
Danny Cohen
Dean Cundey
Allen Daviau
Anthony Dod Mantle
Gerry Fisher
William A. Fraker
Otto Heller
Kenneth Higgins
Arthur Ibbetson
Dan Laustsen
Matthew Libatique
Donald McAlpine
Ted Moore
Sven Nykvist
Phedon Papamichael
Wally Pfister
Roger Pratt
Nicolas Roeg
Giuseppe Rotunno
Robbie Ryan
Takao Saitô
Eduardo Serra
Dante Spinotti
Gilbert Taylor
Ronnie Taylor
Masaharu Ueda

Multiple wins

;5 wins

Roger Deakins
Geoffrey Unsworth

;4 wins

Emmanuel Lubezki ;3 wins
Conrad Hall
Oswald Morris
Douglas Slocombe

;2 wins

Dion Beebe
Ted Moore
Gerry Turpin

Notes

: A: According to the BAFTAs database, Harry Stradling, Billy Williams, Geoffrey Unsworth, and Douglas Slocombe were all nominated for their photography on two different films, while Vilmos Zsigmond was nominated for three films. Unsworth is the only cameraman to receive dual nominations twice.

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