Camerimage


The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage is a festival dedicated to the celebration of cinematography and recognition of its creators, cinematographers. The first seven events were held in Toruń, Poland. The next ten events were held in Łódź. Since 2010, the festival has taken place in Bydgoszcz. In 2007, the name of the festival was changed from Camerimage to Plus Camerimage but was changed back in 2013 after the sponsorship deal with Plus ended. At the end of November every year, Camerimage brings together professional cinematographers, students and other people associated with the film industry. The Camerimage festival spans over a course of one week, with multiple events at one time.
The festival guested many prominent actors, actresses and filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Roman Polański, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuarón, Emir Kusturica, Gus Van Sant, Ang Lee, István Szabó, Andrzej Wajda, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Ralph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Charlize Theron, Oliver Stone, Agnieszka Holland, Rutger Hauer, Liam Neeson, Isabelle Huppert, Jeremy Irons, Peter Weir, Krzysztof Kieślowski, James Ivory, Danny DeVito, Irène Jacob, Jim Jarmusch, Roland Joffé, Aki Kaurismäki, Val Kilmer, Nastassja Kinski, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jiří Menzel, Volker Schlöndorff, Viggo Mortensen, Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Greenaway, Tom Tykwer, Robert Richardson, Alan Rickman and John Malkovich.

Awards

;Main Competition
;Student Etudes Competition
;Documentary Films Competition
;Feature Debuts Competition
;Music Videos Competition
;3D Films Competition
;Polish Films Competition
;Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award
;Cinematographer - Director Duo Award

Main competition

Golden Frog winners

"†" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie for Best Cinematography.
YearFilmOriginal titleCinematographerRef
1993The PianoStuart Dryburgh
1994Woyzeck Tibor Máthé
1994Crows WronyArthur Reinhart
1995The Seventh RoomA hetedik szobaPiotr Sobociński
1996Secrets & LiesDick Pope
1997CharacterKarakterRogier Stoffers
1998Central StationCentral do BrasilWalter Carvalho
1999ElizabethRemi Adefarasin
2000Amores perrosRodrigo Prieto
2001The King is DancingLe Roi danseGérard Simon
2002Edi Krzysztof Ptak
2002Road to PerditionConrad Hall
2003City of GodCidade de DeusCésar Charlone
2004Vera DrakeDick Pope
2005FatelessSorstalanságGyula Pados
2006Pan's LabyrinthEl laberinto del faunoGuillermo Navarro
2007The Diving Bell and the ButterflyLe scaphandre et le papillonJanusz Kamiński
2008Slumdog MillionaireAnthony Dod Mantle
2009LebanonלבנוןGiora Bejach
2010VeniceWenecjaArthur Reinhart
2011In DarknessW ciemnościJolanta Dylewska
2012War WitchRebelleNicolas Bolduc
2013IdaŁukasz Żal
Ryszard Lenczewski
2014LeviathanЛевиафанMikhail Krichman
2015CarolEdward Lachman
2016LionGreig Fraser
2017On Body and SoulTestről és lélekrőlMáté Herbai
2018The FortressNamhansanseongJi Yong Kim
2019JokerLawrence Sher

Additional festival events

Since 2013, short documentary films awarded the Golden Frog during Camerimage festival are granted consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Academy Awards without having to meet the standard theatrical run requirement. To meet all requirements, the running time limit of selected short documentary was decreased from 60 to 40 minutes. This way requirements for short documentary films selected at both Camerimage festival and the Academy Awards are the same.