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 Award for Best Cinematography
The current recipient: Lol Crawley
Awarded for	Best Cinematography
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Lol Crawley for The Brutalist (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

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

  indicates the winner

1960s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
1963 (17th)	Best Cinematography – Black and White
	The Servant	Douglas Slocombe
	Billy Liar	Denys N. Coop
	Heavens Above!	Mutz Greenbaum
	Station Six-Sahara	Gerald Gibbs
	The Victors	Christopher Challis
	Best Cinematography – Colour
	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 (18th)	Best Cinematography – Black and White
	The Pumpkin Eater	Oswald Morris
	Guns at Batasi	Douglas Slocombe
	King & Country	Denys N. Coop
	Séance on a Wet Afternoon	Gerry Turpin
	Best Cinematography – Colour
	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
1965 (19th)	Best Cinematography – Black and White
	The Hill	Oswald Morris
	Darling	Kenneth Higgins
	The Knack ...and How to Get It	David Watkin
	Repulsion	Gilbert Taylor
	Best Cinematography – Colour
	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 (20th)	Best Cinematography – Black and White
	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
	Best Cinematography – Colour
	Arabesque	Christopher Challis
	Alfie	Otto Heller
	The Blue Max	Douglas Slocombe
	Modesty Blaise	Jack Hildyard
1967 (21st)	Best Cinematography – Black and White
	The Whisperers	Gerry Turpin
	Mademoiselle	David Watkin
	The Sailor from Gibraltar	Raoul Coutard
	Ulysses	Wolfgang Suschitzky
	Best Cinematography – Colour
	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 (22nd)	2001: A Space Odyssey	Geoffrey Unsworth
	Elvira Madigan	Jörgen Persson
	The Charge of the Light Brigade	David Watkin
	The Lion in Winter	Douglas Slocombe
1969 (23rd)	Oh! What a Lovely War	Gerry Turpin
	Bullitt	William A. Fraker
	Funny Girl Hello, Dolly!	Harry Stradling [A]
	The Magus Women in Love	Billy Williams [A]

1970s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
1970 (24th)	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Conrad L. Hall
	Catch-22	David Watkin
	Ryan's Daughter	Freddie Young
	Waterloo	Armando Nannuzzi
1971 (25th)	Death in Venice	Pasqualino De Santis
	Fiddler on the Roof	Oswald Morris
	The Go-Between	Gerry Fisher
	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Billy Williams
1972 (26th)	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cabaret	Geoffrey Unsworth [A]
	A Clockwork Orange	John Alcott
	Deliverance Images McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Vilmos Zsigmond [A]
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Ennio Guarnieri
1973 (27th)	Don't Look Now	Anthony B. Richmond
	Cries and Whispers	Sven Nykvist
	Jesus Christ Superstar Travels with My Aunt	Douglas Slocombe [A]
	Sleuth	Oswald Morris
1974 (28th)	The Great Gatsby	Douglas Slocombe
	Chinatown	John A. Alonzo
	Murder on the Orient Express Zardoz	Geoffrey Unsworth [A]
	The Three Musketeers	David Watkin
1975 (29th)	Barry Lyndon	John Alcott
	The Man Who Would Be King	Oswald Morris
	Rollerball	Douglas Slocombe
	The Towering Inferno	Fred J. Koenekamp
1976 (30th)	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 (31st)	A Bridge Too Far	Geoffrey Unsworth
	The Deep	Christopher Challis
	Fellini's Casanova	Giuseppe Rotunno
	Valentino	Peter Suschitzky
1978 (32nd)	Julia	Douglas Slocombe
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Vilmos Zsigmond
	The Duellists	Frank Tidy
	Superman	Geoffrey Unsworth
1979 (33rd) [1]	The Deer Hunter	Vilmos Zsigmond
	Apocalypse Now	Vittorio Storaro
	Manhattan	Gordon Willis
	Yanks	Dick Bush

1980s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
1980 (34th)	All That Jazz	Giuseppe Rotunno
	The Black Stallion	Caleb Deschanel
	The Elephant Man	Freddie Francis
	Kagemusha	Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda
1981 (35th)	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 (36th)	Blade Runner	Jordan Cronenweth
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Allen Daviau
	Gandhi	Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams
	Reds	Vittorio Storaro
1983 (37th)	Fanny and Alexander	Sven Nykvist
	Heat and Dust	Walter Lassally
	Local Hero	Chris Menges
	Zelig	Gordon Willis
1984 (38th)	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
1985 (39th)	Amadeus	Miroslav Ondříček
	The Emerald Forest	Philippe Rousselot
	A Passage to India	Ernest Day
	Witness	John Seale
1986 (40th)	Out of Africa	David Watkin
	The Mission	Chris Menges
	Ran	Takao Saitô and Masaharu Ueda
	A Room with a View	Tony Pierce-Roberts
1987 (41st)	Jean de Florette	Bruno Nuytten
	Cry Freedom	Ronnie Taylor
	Hope and Glory	Philippe Rousselot
	Platoon	Robert Richardson
1988 (42nd)	Empire of the Sun	Allen Daviau
	Babettes gæstebud	Henning Kristiansen
	The Last Emperor	Vittorio Storaro
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Dean Cundey
1989 (43rd)	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
1990 (44th)	The Sheltering Sky	Vittorio Storaro
	Goodfellas	Michael Ballhaus
	Glory	Freddie Francis
	Cinema Paradiso	Blasco Giurato
1991 (45th)	Cyrano de Bergerac	Pierre Lhomme
	Thelma & Louise	Adrian Biddle
	The Silence of the Lambs	Tak Fujimoto
	Dances with Wolves	Dean Semler
1992 (46th)	The Last of the Mohicans	Dante Spinotti
	Cape Fear	Freddie Francis
	Unforgiven	Jack N. Green
	Howards End	Tony Pierce-Roberts
1993 (47th)	Schindler's List	Janusz Kamiński
	The Age of Innocence	Michael Ballhaus
	The Piano	Stuart Dryburgh
	The Remains of the Day	Tony Pierce-Roberts
1994 (48th)	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
1995 (49th)	Braveheart	John Toll
	Sense and Sensibility	Michael Coulter
	Apollo 13	Dean Cundey
	The Madness of King George	Andrew Dunn
1996 (50th)	The English Patient	John Seale
	Fargo	Roger Deakins
	Evita	Darius Khondji
	Michael Collins	Chris Menges
1997 (51st)	The Wings of the Dove	Eduardo Serra
	Titanic	Russell Carpenter
	Romeo + Juliet	Donald McAlpine
	L.A. Confidential	Dante Spinotti
1998 (52nd)	Elizabeth	Remi Adefarasin
	The Truman Show	Peter Biziou
	Shakespeare in Love	Richard Greatrex
	Saving Private Ryan	Janusz Kamiński
1999 (53rd) [2]	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
2000 (54th) [3][4]	Gladiator	John Mathieson
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Roger Deakins
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Peter Pau
	Chocolat	Roger Pratt
	Billy Elliot	Brian Tufano
2001 (55th) [5]	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
2002 (56th) [6]	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
2003 (57th) [7]	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
2004 (58th) [8]	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
2005 (59th) [9]	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
2006 (60th) [10]	Children of Men	Emmanuel Lubezki
	United 93	Barry Ackroyd
	Casino Royale	Phil Méheux
	Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo Navarro
	Babel	Rodrigo Prieto
2007 (61st) [11]	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
2008 (62nd) [12]	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
2009 (63rd) [13]	The Hurt Locker	Barry Ackroyd
	The Road	Javier Aguirresarobe
	Avatar	Mauro Fiore
	District 9	Trent Opaloch
	Inglourious Basterds	Robert Richardson

2010s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
2010 (64th) [14]	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
2011 (65th) [15]	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
2012 (66th) [16]	Life of Pi	Claudio Miranda
	Les Misérables	Danny Cohen
	Skyfall	Roger Deakins
	Lincoln	Janusz Kamiński
	Anna Karenina	Seamus McGarvey
2013 (67th) [17]	Gravity	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Captain Phillips	Barry Ackroyd
	12 Years a Slave	Sean Bobbitt
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
	Nebraska	Phedon Papamichael
2014 (68th) [18]	Birdman	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Ida	Ryszard Lenczewski and Łukasz Żal
	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
	Interstellar	Hoyte van Hoytema
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Robert Yeoman
2015 (69th) [19][20]	The Revenant	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Sicario	Roger Deakins
	Bridge of Spies	Janusz Kamiński
	Carol	Edward Lachman
	Mad Max: Fury Road	John Seale
2016 (70th) [21]	La La Land	Linus Sandgren
	Lion	Greig Fraser
	Nocturnal Animals	Seamus McGarvey
	Hell or High Water	Giles Nuttgens
	Arrival	Bradford Young
2017 (71st) [22]	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
2018 (72nd) [23][24]	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	The Favourite	Robbie Ryan
	First Man	Linus Sandgren
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Newton Thomas Sigel
	Cold War	Łukasz Żal
2019 (73rd) [25][26]	1917	Roger Deakins
	Le Mans '66	Phedon Papamichael
	The Irishman	Rodrigo Prieto
	Joker	Lawrence Sher
	The Lighthouse	Jarin Blaschke

2020s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
2020 (74th) [27]	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
2021 (75th) [28]	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
2022 (76th) [29]	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
2023 (77th)
	Oppenheimer	Hoyte van Hoytema
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Rodrigo Prieto
	Maestro	Matthew Libatique
	Poor Things	Robbie Ryan
	The Zone of Interest	Łukasz Żal
2024 (78th)
	The Brutalist	Lol Crawley
	Conclave	Stéphane Fontaine
	Dune: Part Two	Greig Fraser
	Emilia Pérez	Paul Guilhaume
	Nosferatu	Jarin Blaschke

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

See also

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography
• American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography

Notes

A^{1 2 3 4 5 6} : Rules from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed cinematographers to receive a single citation which could honor their work in more than one film. 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.