2021 – Erik Messerschmidt for “Mank”
2020 – Roger Deakins for “1917”
2019 – Łukasz Żal for “Cold War”
2018 – Roger Deakins for “Blade Runner 2049”
2017 – Greig Fraser for “Lion”
2016 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “The Revenant”
2015 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
2014 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “Gravity”
2013 – Claudio Miranda for “Life of Pi”
2012 – Guillaume Schiffman for “The Artist”
2011 – Wally Pfister for “Inception”
2010 – Christian Berger for “The White Ribbon”
2009 – Anthony Dod Mantle for “Slumdog Millionaire”
2008 – Roger Deakins for “No Country for Old Men”
2007 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “Children of Men”
2006 – Dion Beebe for “Memoirs of a Geisha”
2005 – Robert Richardson for “The Aviator”
2004 – Russell Boyd for “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”
2003 – Conrad L. Hall for “Road to Perdition”
2002 – Roger Deakins for “The Man Who Wasn’t There”
2001 – Peter Pau for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
2000 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “Sleepy Hollow”
1999 – Conrad L. Hall for “American Beauty”
1998 – John Toll for “The Thin Red Line”
1997 – Russell Carpenter for “Titanic”
1996 – John Seale for “The English Patient”
1995 – John Toll for “Braveheart”
1994 – Emmanuel Lubezki for “A Little Princess”
1993 – Donald McAlpine for “The Piano”
1992 – Robert Richardson for “JFK”
1991 – Dean Semler for “Dances with Wolves”
1990 – Freddie Francis for “Glory”
1989 – Peter Biziou for “Mississippi Burning”
1988 – Michael Ballhaus for “Broadcast News”
1987 – Chris Menges for “The Mission”
1986 – Chris Menges for “The Killing Fields”
1985 – Caleb Deschanel for “The Natural”
1984 – Sven Nykvist for “Fanny and Alexander”
1983 – Billy Williams for “Gandhi”
1982 – Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet for “Tess”
1981 – Vittorio Storaro for “Reds”
1980 – Geoffrey Unsworth for “Tess”
1979 – Néstor Almendros for “Days of Heaven”
1978 – Vilmos Zsigmond for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
1977 – Haskell Wexler for “Bound for Glory”
1976 – Douglas Slocombe for “Julia”
1975 – John Alcott for “Barry Lyndon”
1974 – Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. Biroc for “The Towering Inferno”
1973 – Geoffrey Unsworth for “Cabaret”
1972 – Owen Roizman for “The French Connection”
1971 – Freddie Young for “Ryan’s Daughter”
1970 – Conrad L. Hall for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
1969 – Pasqualino De Santis for “Romeo and Juliet”
1968 – Burnett Guffey for “Bonnie and Clyde”
1967 – Ted Moore for “A Man for All Seasons”
1966 – Ernest Laszlo for “Ship of Fools”
1965 – Freddie Young for “Doctor Zhivago”
1964 – James Wong Howe for “Hud”
1963 – Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz for “The Longest Day”
1962 – Freddie Francis for “Sons and Lovers”
1961 – Eugen Schüfftan for “The Hustler”
1960 – Russell Metty for “Spartacus”
1959 – William C. Mellor for “The Diary of Anne Frank”
1958 – Sam Leavitt for “The Defiant Ones”
1957 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “Somebody Up There Likes Me”
1956 – James Wong Howe for “The Rose Tattoo”
1955 – Boris Kaufman for “On the Waterfront”
1954 – Burnett Guffey for “From Here to Eternity”
1953 – Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout for “The Quiet Man”
1952 – Robert Surtees for “The Bad and the Beautiful”
1951 – William H. Daniels for “A Place in the Sun”
1950 – Robert Krasker for “The Third Man”
No, the list continues:
1969 – Pasqualino De Santis for “Romeo and Juliet”
1968 – Burnett Guffey for “Bonnie and Clyde”
1967 – Ted Moore for “A Man for All Seasons”
1966 – Ernest Laszlo for “Ship of Fools”
1965 – Freddie Young for “Doctor Zhivago”
1964 – James Wong Howe for “Hud”
1963 – Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz for “The Longest Day”
1962 – Freddie Francis for “Sons and Lovers”
1961 – Eugen Schüfftan for “The Hustler”
1960 – Russell Metty for “Spartacus”
1959 – William C. Mellor for “The Diary of Anne Frank”
1958 – Sam Leavitt for “The Defiant Ones”
1957 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “Somebody Up There Likes Me”
1956 – James Wong Howe for “The Rose Tattoo”
1955 – Boris Kaufman for “On the Waterfront”
1954 – Burnett Guffey for “From Here to Eternity”
1953 – Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout for “The Quiet Man”
1952 – Robert Surtees for “The Bad and the Beautiful”
1951 – William H. Daniels for “A Place in the Sun”
1950 – Robert Krasker for “The Third Man”
1949 – Paul Vogel for “Battleground”
1948 – Guy Green for “Great Expectations”
1947 – Arthur C. Miller for “Anna and the King of Siam”
1946 – Leon Shamroy for “Leave Her to Heaven”
1945 – Joseph LaShelle for “Laura”
1944 – Arthur C. Miller for “The Song of Bernadette”
1943 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “Mrs. Miniver”
1942 – George Barnes for “Rebecca”
1941 – Gregg Toland for “Citizen Kane”
1940 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “The Great Waltz”
1939 – Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan for “Gone with the Wind”
1938 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “The Great Ziegfeld”
1937 – Tony Gaudio for “Anthony Adverse”
1936 – Hal Mohr for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
1935 – Victor Milner for “The Crusades”
1934 – Charles Lang for “A Farewell to Arms”
1933 – Lee Garmes for “Shanghai Express”
1932/33 – Floyd Crosby for “Tabu: A Story of the South Seas”
1931/32 – Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer for “Shanghai Express”
1930/31 – Floyd Crosby for “Murnau’s City Girl”