Best Cinematography winner both Black & white/color
Description
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture. In its first film season, 1927–28, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names. The problem with this system became obvious the first year, since Karl Struss and Charles Rosher were nominated for their work together on Sunrise. Still, three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also listed as part of the nomination. In the second year, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles that were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1930, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name. Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which individuals are nominated for a single film was adopted in all profession-related categories. From 1939 to 1967 with the exception of 1957, there were also separate awards for color and black-and-white cinematography. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), the most recent black-and-white films to win since then are Schindler's List (1993), Roma (2018) and Mank (2020). Floyd Crosby won the award for Tabu in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography. No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame (1927), and 4 Devils (1928). The Right to Love (1930) is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.
Number of Movies
130
Sunrise
White Shadows in the South Seas
The Bottom of the World
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Shanghai Express
A Farewell to Arms
Cleopatra
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Anthony Adverse
The Garden of Allah
The Good Earth
A Star Is Born
The Great Waltz
Sweethearts
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
The Thief of Bagdad
How Green Was My Valley
Blood And Sand
Mrs. Miniver
The Black Swan
The Song of Bernadette
Phantom of the Opera
Laura
Wilson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Leave Her to Heaven
Anna and the King of Siam
The Yearling
Great Expectations
Black Narcissus
The Naked City
Joan of Arc
Battleground (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Third Man
King Solomon's Mines
A Place in the Sun
An American in Paris
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Quiet Man
From Here to Eternity
Shane
On the Waterfront
Three Coins In The Fountain
The Rose Tattoo
To Catch a Thief
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Around the World in 80 Days
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Defiant Ones
Gigi
Diary of Anne Frank
Ben-Hur
Sons and Lovers
Spartacus
The Hustler
West Side Story
The Longest Day
Lawrence of Arabia
Hud
Cleopatra
Zorba the Greek
My Fair Lady
Ship of Fools
Doctor Zhivago
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Man for All Seasons
Bonnie and Clyde
Romeo and Juliet
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ryan's Daughter
Fiddler on the Roof
Cabaret
Cries and Whispers
The Towering Inferno
Barry Lyndon
Bound for Glory
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Days of Heaven
Apocalypse Now
Tess
Reds
Gandhi
Fanny and Alexander
The Killing Fields
Out of Africa
The Mission
The Last Emperor
Mississippi Burning
Glory
Dances with Wolves
JFK
A River Runs Through It
Schindler's List
Legends of the Fall
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Saving Private Ryan
American Beauty
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Road to Perdition
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Aviator
Memoirs of a Geisha
Pan's Labyrinth
There Will Be Blood
Slumdog Millionaire
Avatar
Inception
Hugo
Hugo
Life of Pi
Gravity
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Revenant
La La Land
Blade Runner 2049
Roma
1917
Mank
Dune
All Quiet on the Western Front
Oppenheimer
The Brutalist
Wicked
Sinners
