2021 – Aurélien Marra for “Two of Us”
2020 – Jarin Blaschke for “The Lighthouse”
2019 – Giorgi Shvelidze for “Namme”
2018 – Mart Taniel for “November”
2017 – Gorka Gómez Andreu for “House of Others”
2016 – Adam Arkapaw for “Macbeth”
2015 – Mátyás Erdély for “Son of Saul”
2014 – Gorka Gómez Andreu for “For 80 Days”
2013 – Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen for “Before Snowfall”
2012 – Yasu Tanida for “Compliance”
2011 – Benoit Debie for “Enter the Void”
2010 – Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig for “Daybreakers”
2009 – Benoit Delhomme for “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
2008 – Hoyte Van Hoytema for “Let the Right One In”
2007 – John Christian Rosenlund for “Max Manus”
2006 – John Seale for “The Painted Veil”
2005 – Alwin Küchler for “The Cave”
2004 – Salvatore Totino for “Anything Else”
2003 – Michael Grady for “Confidence”
2002 – Newton Thomas Sigel for “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”
2001 – Phedon Papamichael for “Josie and the Pussycats”
2000 – Chris Menges for “The Weight of Water”
1999 – Harris Savides for “The Limey”
1998 – Declan Quinn for “This Is My Father”
1997 – Dante Spinotti for “Gone Fishin’”
1996 – John Schwartzman for “The Rock”
1995 – Miroslav Ondříček for “Faust”
1994 – Richard Crudo for “Clean Slate”
1993 – Alex Thomson for “The Trial”
1992 – Freddie Francis for “Cape Fear”
1991 – Vittorio Storaro for “The Sheltering Sky”
1990 – Stephen Goldblatt for “The Prince of Tides”
1989 – Freddie Francis for “Glory”
1988 – Janusz Kamiński for “Cool as Ice”
1987 – Miroslav Ondříček for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”
1986 – Vilmos Zsigmond for “The Witches of Eastwick”
1985 – Gabriel Beristain for “The Wild Geese II”
1984 – Fred J. Koenekamp for “The Awakening”
1983 – Gilbert Taylor for “Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi”
1982 – Gordon Willis for “Pennies from Heaven”
1981 – Laszlo Kovacs for “Ghostbusters”
1980 – Nestor Almendros for “Kramer vs. Kramer”
1979 – Owen Roizman for “The Electric Horseman”
1978 – Vilmos Zsigmond for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
1977 – Fred J. Koenekamp for “Islands in the Stream”
1976 – Victor J. Kemper for “Dog Day Afternoon”
1975 – Robert Surtees for “The Hindenburg”
1974 – Charles Lang for “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman”
1973 – Sven Nykvist for “The Emigrants”
1972 – Harry Stradling Jr. for “1776”
1971 – Fred J. Koenekamp for “Patton”
1970 – Ernest Laszlo for “Marooned”
1969 – Ted Voigtlander for “The Best House in London”
1968 – Milton R. Krasner for “The War Wagon”
1967 – Robert Surtees for “Doctor Dolittle”
1966 – Robert Surtees for “The Sand Pebbles”
1965 – Joseph LaShelle for “The Cardinal”
1964 – William H. Clothier for “McLintock!”
1963 – Russell Harlan for “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm”
1962 – Philip H. Lathrop for “Blue Hawaii”
1961 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “The Unforgiven”
1960 – Robert Surtees for “Ben-Hur”
1959 – William H. Daniels for “Some Like It Hot”
1958 – William C. Mellor for “The Proud Rebel”
1957 – Joseph Ruttenberg for “Somebody Up There Likes Me”
1956 – James Wong Howe for “Love Me or Leave Me”
1955 – Robert Burks for “To Catch a Thief”
1954 – Milton R. Krasner for “The Seven Year Itch”
1953 – George J. Folsey for “The Light Touch”
1952 – Robert Surtees for “Quo Vadis”
1951 – Robert Surtees for “King Solomon’s Mines”
1950 – Charles Rosher for “The Secret Garden”
1949 – Paul Vogel for “Battleground”
1948 – Arthur E. Arling for “The Romance of Rosy Ridge”
1947 – Tony Gaudio for “A Song to Remember”
1946 – Joseph A. Valentine for “The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer”
1945 – Hal Mohr for “The Adventures of Mark Twain”
1944 – Charles Lang for “So Proudly We Hail!”
1943 – Leon Shamroy for “The Black Swan”
1942 – Karl Freund for “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
1941 – Rudolph Maté for “Foreign Correspondent”