A seguir figura unha listaxe dos premios Oscar á mellor fotografía. A orde é cronolóxica e descendente.
- 1979 – Apocalypse Now – Vittorio Storaro
- 1978 – Days of Heaven – Néstor Almendros
- 1977 – Encontros na terceira fase – Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull, William A. Fraker, Douglas Slocombe, John Alonzo, Laszlo Kovacs, Richard Yuricich, Dave Stewart, Robert Hall e Dennis Muren
- 1976 – Bound for Glory – Haskell Wexler
- 1975 – Barry Lyndon – John Alcott
- 1974 – O coloso en chamas – Fred Koenekamp e Joseph Biroc
- 1973 – Viskingar Och Rop – Sven Nykvist
- 1972 – Cabaret – Geoffrey Unsworth
- 1971 – Fiddler on the Roof – Oswald Morris
- 1970 – Ryan's Daughter – Freddie Young
- – Un home para a eternidade – Ted Moore (cor)
- 1965 – Ship of Fools – Ernest Laszlo (B/N)
- – Doutor Zhivago – John Box, Terry Marsh e Dario Simoni (cor)
- 1964 – Zorba the Greek – Walter Lassally (B/N)
- – My Fair Lady – Harry Stradling (cor)
- 1963 – Hud – James Wong Howe (B/N)
- – Cleopatra – Leon Shamroy (cor)
- 1962 – The Longest Day – Jean Bourgoin, Henry Persin e Walter Wottitz (B/N)
- – Lawrence de Arabia – Frederick A. Young (cor)
- – West Side Story – Daniel L. Fapp (cor)
- 1960 – Sons and Lovers – Freddie Francis (B/N)
- – Spartacus – Russell Mety (cor)
- 1959 – The Diary of Anna Frank – William C. Mellor (B/N)
- – Ben-Hur – Robert Surtees (cor)
- 1958 – The Defiant Ones – Sam Leavitt (B/N)
- – Gigi – Joseph Ruttenberg (cor)
- – A volta ao mundo en oitenta días – Lionel Lindon (cor)
- 1955 – The Rose Tattoo – James Wong Howe (B/N)
- – To Catch a Thief – Robert Burks (cor)
- – Three Coins in the Fountain – Milton Krasner (cor)
- – Raíces profundas – Loyal Griggs (cor)
- 1952 – The Bad and the Beautiful – Robert Surtees (B/N)
- – O home tranquilo – Winton C. Hoch e Archie Stout (cor)
- 1951 – A Place in the Sun – William C. Mellor (B/N)
- – Un americano en París – Alfred Gilks e John Alton (cor)
- 1950 – The Third Man – Robert Krasker (B/N)
- – King Solomon's Mines – Robert Surtees (cor)
- 1949 – Battleground – Paul C. Vogel (B/N)
- – The Wore a Yellow Ribbon – Winston Hoch (cor)
- 1948 – The Naked City – William Daniels (B/N)
- – Joan of Arc – Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall e Winston Hoch (cor)
- 1947 – Great Expectations – Guy Green (B/N)
- – Black Narcissus – Jack Cardiff (cor)
- 1946 – Anna and the King of Siam – Arthur Miller (B/N)
- – The Yearling – Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith e Arthur Arling (cor)
- 1945 – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Harry Stradling (B/N)
- – Leave Her to Heaven – Leon Shamroy (cor)
- 1944 – Laura – Joseph La Shelle (B/N)
- – Wilson – Leon Shamroy (cor)
- 1943 – The Song of Bernadette – Arthur Miller (B/N)
- – The Phantom of the Opera – Hal Mohr e W. Howard Greene (cor)
- – The Black Swan – Leonm Shamroy (cor)
- – Blood and Sand – Ernest Palmer e Ray Rennahan (cor)
- 1940 – Rebecca – George Barnes (B/N)
- – O ladrón de Bagdad – George Perinat (cor)
- 1939 – Wuthering Heights – Gregg Toland (B/N)
- – Foise co vento – Ernest Haller e Ray Rennahan (cor)
- 1938 – The Great Waltz – Joseph Ruttemberg
- 1937 – The Good Earth – Karl Freund
- 1936 – Anthony Adverse – Gaetano Gadio
- 1935 – A Midsummer Night's Dream – Hal Mohr
- 1934 – Cleopatra – Victor Milner
- 1933 – Adeus ás armas – Charles B. Lang Jr.
- 1932 – Shangai Express – Lee Garmes
- 1931 – Tabu – Floyd Crosby
- 1930 – With Byrd at the South Pole – Joseph T. Rucker e William van der Veer
- 1929 – White Shadows of the South Seas – Clyde de Vinna
- 1928 – Sunrise – Charles Rosher e Karl Struss