BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

Winners and nominees

1960s

Best Cinematography – Black and White

• 1963: The Servant – Douglas Slocombe
• * Billy Liar – Denys N. Coop
• * Heavens Above! – Mutz Greenbaum
• * Station Six-Sahara – Gerald Gibbs
• * The Victors – Christopher Challis
• 1964: The Pumpkin Eater – Oswald Morris
• * Guns at Batasi – Douglas Slocombe
• * King & Country – Denys N. Coop
• * Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Gerry Turpin
• 1965: The Hill – Oswald Morris
• * Darling – Kenneth Higgins
• * The Knack...and How to Get It – David Watkin
• * Repulsion – Gilbert Taylor
• 1966: 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
• 1967: The Whisperers – Gerry Turpin
• * Mademoiselle – David Watkin
• * The Sailor from Gibraltar – Raoul Coutard
• * Ulysses – Wolfgang Suschitzky

  Best Cinematography – Colour

• 1963: 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
• 1964: Becket – Geoffrey Unsworth
• * The 7th Dawn – Freddie Young
• * The Chalk Garden – Arthur Ibbetson
• * Nothing but the Best – Nicolas Roeg
• * The Yellow Rolls-Royce – Jack Hildyard
• 1965: 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
• 1966: Arabesque – Christopher Challis
• * Alfie – Otto Heller
• * The Blue Max – Douglas Slocombe
• * Modesty Blaise – Jack Hildyard
• 1967: A Man for All Seasons – Ted Moore
• * Blow-up – Carlo Di Palma
• * The Deadly Affair – Freddie Young
• * Far from the Madding Crowd – Nicolas Roeg

  Best Cinematography

• 1968: ' – Geoffrey Unsworth
• * The Charge of the Light Brigade – David Watkin
• * Elvira Madigan – Jörgen Persson
• * The Lion in Winter – Douglas Slocombe
• 1969: Oh! What a Lovely War – Gerry Turpin'
• * Bullitt – William A. Fraker
• * Funny Girl – Harry Stradling Sr.
• * Hello, Dolly! – Harry Stradling Sr.
• * The Magus – Billy Williams
• * Women in Love'' – Billy Williams

  1970s

• 1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Conrad L. Hall
• * Catch-22 – David Watkin
• * Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young
• * Waterloo – Armando Nannuzzi
• 1971: Death in Venice – Pasqualino De Santis
• * Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris
• * The Go-Between – Gerry Fisher
• * Sunday Bloody Sunday – Billy Williams
• 1972: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Cabaret – Geoffrey Unsworth
• * A Clockwork Orange – John Alcott
• * Deliverance – Vilmos Zsigmond
• * The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Ennio Guarnieri
• * Images – Vilmos Zsigmond
• * McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Vilmos Zsigmond
• 1973: Don't Look Now – Anthony B. Richmond
• * Jesus Christ Superstar – Douglas Slocombe
• * Sleuth – Oswald Morris
• * Travels with My Aunt – Douglas Slocombe
• * Viskningar och rop – Sven Nykvist
• 1974: The Great Gatsby – Douglas Slocombe
• * Chinatown – John A. Alonzo
• * Murder on the Orient Express – Geoffrey Unsworth
• * The Three Musketeers – David Watkin
• * Zardoz – Geoffrey Unsworth
• 1975: Barry Lyndon – John Alcott
• * The Man Who Would Be King – Oswald Morris
• * Rollerball – Douglas Slocombe
• * The Towering Inferno – Fred J. Koenekamp
• 1976: 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
• 1977: A Bridge Too Far – Geoffrey Unsworth
• * The Deep – Christopher Challis
• * Fellini's Casanova – Giuseppe Rotunno
• * Valentino – Peter Suschitzky
• 1978: Julia – Douglas Slocombe
• * Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Vilmos Zsigmond
• * The Duellists – Frank Tidy
• * Superman – Geoffrey Unsworth
• 1979: The Deer Hunter – Vilmos Zsigmond
• * Apocalypse Now – Vittorio Storaro
• * Manhattan – Gordon Willis
• * Yanks – Dick Bush

  1980s

• 1980: All That Jazz – Giuseppe Rotunno
• * The Black Stallion – Caleb Deschanel
• * The Elephant Man – Freddie Francis
• * Kagemusha – Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda
• 1981: 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
• 1982: Blade Runner – Jordan Cronenweth
• * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Allen Daviau
• * Gandhi – Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams
• * Reds – Vittorio Storaro
• 1983: Fanny och Alexander – Sven Nykvist
• * Heat and Dust – Walter Lassally
• * Local Hero – Chris Menges
• * Zelig – Gordon Willis
• 1984: The Killing Fields – Chris Menges
• * ' – John Alcott
• * Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Douglas Slocombe
• * Once Upon a Time in America – Tonino Delli Colli
• 1985: Amadeus – Miroslav Ondříček
• * The Emerald Forest – Philippe Rousselot
• * A Passage to India – Ernest Day
• * Witness – John Seale
• 1986: Out of Africa – David Watkin
• * The Mission – Chris Menges
• * Ran – Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda
• * A Room with a View – Tony Pierce-Roberts
• 1987: Jean de Florette – Bruno Nuytten
• * Cry Freedom – Ronnie Taylor
• * Hope and Glory – Philippe Rousselot
• * Platoon – Robert Richardson
• 1988: Empire of the Sun – Allen Daviau
• * Babettes gæstebud – Henning Kristiansen
• * The Last Emperor – Vittorio Storaro
• * Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Dean Cundey
• 1989: Mississippi Burning – Peter Biziou'
• * Dangerous Liaisons – Philippe Rousselot
• * Gorillas in the Mist – Alan Root and John Seale
• * Henry V – Kenneth MacMillan
• * L'Ours'' – Philippe Rousselot

  1990s

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

  2000s

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

  2010s

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