Here’s the complete list of Best Cinematography Oscar winners from 1927 to 2016:
- Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927/28) – Charles Rosher & Karl Struss
- White Shadows In The South Seas (1928/29) – Clyde De Vinna
- With Byrd At The South Pole (1929/30) – Joseph T. Rucker & Willard Van der Veer
- Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas (1930/31) – Floyd Crosby
- Shanghai Express (1931/32) – Lee Garmes
- A Farewell To Arms (1932/33) – Charles Lang
- Cleopatra (1934) – Victor Milner
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) – Hal Mohr
- Anthony Adverse (1936 B&W) – Tony Gaudio
- The Garden Of Allah (1936 COLOR) – W. Howard Greene & Harold Rosson
- The Good Earth (1937 B&W) – Karl Freund
- A Star Is Born (1937 COLOR) – W. Howard Greene
- The Great Waltz (1938 B&W) – Joseph Ruttenberg
- Sweethearts (1938 COLOR) – Oliver T. Marsh & Allen Davey
- Wuthering Heights (1939 B&W) – Gregg Toland
- Gone With The Wind (1939 COLOR) – Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan
- Rebecca (1940 B&W) – George Barnes
- The Thief Of Bagdad (1940 COLOR) – Georges Perinal
- How Green Was My Valley (1941 B&W) – Arthur C. Miller
- Blood And Sand (1941 COLOR) – Ernest Palmer & Ray Rennahan
- Mrs. Miniver (1942 B&W) – Joseph Ruttenberg
- The Black Swan (1942 COLOR) – Leon Shamroy
- The Song Of Bernadette (1943 B&W) – Arthur C. Miller
- Phantom Of The Opera (1943 COLOR) – Hal Mohr & W. Howard Greene
- Laura (1944 B&W) – Joseph LaShelle
- Wilson (1944 COLOR) – Leon Shamroy
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945 B&W) – Harry Stradling
- Leave Her To Heaven (1945 COLOR) – Leon Shamroy
- Anna And The King Of Siam (1945 B&W) – Arthur C. Miller
- The Yearling (1946 COLOR) – Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith & Arthur E. Arling
- Great Expectations (1947 B&W) – Guy Green
- Black Narcissus (1947 COLOR) – Jack Cardiff
- The Naked City (1948 B&W) – William H. Daniels
- Joan Of Arc (1948 COLOR) – Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall & Winton Hoch
- Battleground (1949 B&W) – Paul C. Vogel
- She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949 COLOR) – Winton Hoch
- The Third Man (1950 B&W) – Robert Krasker
- King Solomon’s Mines (1950 COLOR) – Robert Surtees
- A Place In The Sun (1951 B&W) – William C. Mellor
- An American In Paris (1951 COLOR) – Alfred Gilks & John Alton
- The Bad And The Beautiful (1952 B&W) – Robert Surtees
- The Quiet Man (1952 COLOR) – Winton Hoch & Archie Stout
- From Here To Eternity (1953 B&W) – Burnett Guffey
- Shane (1953 COLOR) – Loyal Griggs
- On The Waterfront (1954 B&W) – Boris Kaufman
- Three Coins In The Fountain (1954 COLOR) – Milton R. Krasner
- The Rose Tattoo (1955 B&W) – James Wong Howe
- To Catch A Thief (1955 COLOR) – Robert Burks
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 B&W) – Joseph Ruttenberg
- Around The World In 80 Days (1956 COLOR) – Lionel Lindon
- The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) – Jack Hildyard
- The Defiant Ones (1958 B&W) – Sam Leavitt
- Gigi (1958 COLOR) – Joseph Ruttenberg
- The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959 B&W) – William C. Mellor
- Ben-Hur (1959 COLOR) – Robert Surtees
- Sons And Lovers (1960 B&W) – Freddie Francis
- Spartacus (1960 COLOR) – Russel Metty
- The Hustler (1961 B&W) – Eugen Schufftan
- West Side Story (1961 COLOR) – Daniel L. Fapp
- The Longest Day (1962 B&W) – Jean Bourgoin & Walter Wottitz
- Lawrence Of Arabia (1962 COLOR) – Freddie Young
- Hud (1963 B&W) – James Wong Howe
- Cleopatra (1963 COLOR) – Leon Shamroy
- Zorba The Greek (1964 B&W) – Walter Lassally
- My Fair Lady (1964 COLOR) – Harry Stradling
- Ship Of Fools (1965 B&W) – Ernest Laszlo
- Doctor Zhivago (1965 COLOR) – Freddie Young
- Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966 B&W) – Haskell Wexler
- A Man For All Seasons (1966 COLOR) – Ted Moore
- Bonnie And Clyde (1967) – Burnett Guffey
- Romeo And Juliet (1968) – Pasqualino De Santis
- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) – Conrad L. Hall
- Ryan’s Daughter (1970) – Freddie Young
- Fiddler On The Roof (1971) – Oswald Morris
- Cabaret (1972) – Geoffrey Unsworth
- Cries And Whispers (1973) – Sven Nykvist
- The Towering Inferno (1974) – Fred J. Koenekamp & Joseph F. Biroc
- Barry Lyndon (1975) – John Alcott
- Bound For Glory (1976) – Haskell Wexler
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) – Vilmos Zsigmond
- Days Of Heaven (1978) – Nestor Almendros
- Apocalypse Now (1979) – Vittorio Storaro
- Tess (1980) – Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet
- Reds (1981) – Vittorio Storaro
- Gandhi (1982) – Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor
- Fanny And Alexander (1983) – Sven Nykvist
- The Killing Fields (1984) – Chris Menges
- Out Of Africa (1985) – David Watkin
- The Mission (1986) – Chris Menges
- The Last Emperor (1987) – Vittorio Storaro
- Mississippi Burning (1988) – Peter Biziou
- Glory (1989) – Freddie Francis
- Dances With Wolves (1990) – Dean Semler
- JFK (1991) – Robert Richardson
- A River Runs Through It (1992) – Philippe Rousselot
- Schindler’s List (1993) – Janusz Kaminski
- Legends Of The Fall (1994) – John Toll
- Braveheart (1995) – John Toll
- The English Patient (1996) – John Seale
- Titanic (1997) – Russell Carpenter
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) – Janusz Kaminski
- American Beauty (1999) – Conrad L. Hall
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) – Peter Pau
- The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) – Andrew Lesnie
- Road To Perdition (2002) – Conrad L. Hall
- Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003) – Russell Boyd
- The Aviator (2004) – Robert Richardson
- Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) – Dion Beebe
- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) – Guillermo Navarro
- There Will Be Blood (2007) – Robert Elswit
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – Anthony Dod Mantle
- Avatar (2009) – Mauro Fiore
- Inception (2010) – Wally Pfister
- Hugo (2011) – Robert Richardson
- Life Of Pi (2012) – Claudio Miranda
- Gravity (2013) – Emmanuel Lubezki
- Birdman (2014) – Emmanuel Lubezki
- The Revenant (2015) – Emmanuel Lubezki