Academy Award untuk Sinematografi Terbaik

Charles Rosher penerima penghargaan pertama di tahun 1928.

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Sinematografi Terbaik Oscar) adalah penghargaan yang diberikan setiap tahun kepada Sinematografer terbaik untuk karyanya dalam bidang perfilman.

1920s

1928 - Charles Rosher and Karl Struss, Sunrise
1929 - Clyde DeVinna, White Shadows in the South Seas

1930s

1930 - Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der, With Byrd at the South Pole
1931 - Floyd Crosby, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1932 - Lee Garmes Shanghai Express
1933 - Charles Bryant Lang. Jr, A Farewell to Arms
1934 - Victor Milner, Cleopatra
1935 - Hal Mohr, A Midsummer Night's Dream
1936 - Gaetano Gaudio, Anthony Adverse
1937 - Karl Freund, The Good Earth
1938 - Joseph Ruttenberg, The Great Waltz

From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

1939 - Gregg Toland, Wuthering Heights (B&W)
- - Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan, Gone with the Wind (Color)

1940s

1940 - George Barnes, Rebecca (B&W)
- - George Perinal, The Thief of Bagdad (Color)
1941 - Arthur C. Miller, How Green Was My Valley (B&W)
- - Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan, Blood and Sand (Color)
1942 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Mrs. Miniver (B&W)
- - Leon Shamroy, The Black Swan (Color)
1943 - Arthur C. Miller, The Song of Bernadette (B&W)
- - Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene, The Phantom of the Opera (Color)
1944 - Joseph LaShelle, Laura (B&W)
- - Leon Shamroy, Wilson (Color)
1945 - Harry Stradling, Picture of Dorian Gray (B&W)
- - Leon Shamroy, Leave Her to Heaven
1946 - Arthur C. Miller, Anna and the King of Siam (B&W)
- - Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling, The Yearling (Color)
1947 - Guy Green, Great Expectations (B&W)
- - Jack Cardiff, Black Narcissus (Color)
1948 - William Daniels, The Naked City (B&W)
- - Joseph Valentine, William V. Skall and Winton Hoch, Joan of Arc (Color)
1949 - Paul C. Vogel, Battleground (B&W)
- - Winton Hoch, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Color)

1950s

1950 - Robert Krasker, The Third Man (B&W)
- - Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines (Color)
1951 - William C. Mellor, A Place in the Sun (B&W)
- - Alfred Gilks and John Alton, An American in Paris (Color)
1952 - Robert Surtees, The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W)
- - Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, The Quiet Man (Color)
1953 - Burnett Guffey, From Here to Eternity (B&W)
- - Loyal Griggs, Shane (Color)
1954 - Boris Kaufman, On the Waterfront (B&W)
- - Milton R. Krasner, Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
1955 - James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo (B&W)
- - Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief (Color)
1956 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me (B&W)
- - Lionel Lindon, Around the World in Eighty Days (Color)

For 1957, there was a single award:

1957 - Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai

From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

1958 - Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones (B&W)
- - Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi (Color)
1959 - William C. Mellor, The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W)
- - Robert Surtees, Ben-Hur (Color)

1960s

1960 - Freddie Francis, Sons and Lovers (B&W)
- - Russel Metty, Spartacus (Color)
1961 - Eugen Schufftan, The Hustler (B&W)
- - Daniel L. Fapp, West Side Story (Color)
1962 - Sacha Vierny, Last year at Marienbad (B&W)
- - Freddie Young, Lawrence of Arabia (Color)
1963 - James Wong Howe, Hud (B&W)
- - Leon Shamroy, Cleopatra (Color)
1964 - Walter Lassally, Zorba the Greek (B&W)
- - Harry Stradling, My Fair Lady (Color)
1965 - Ernest Laszlo, Ship of Fools (B&W)
- - Freddie Young, Doctor Zhivago (Color)
1966 - Haskell Wexler, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (B&W)
- - Ted Moore, A Man for All Seasons (Color)

From 1967, there was a single award again:

1967 - Burnett Guffey, Bonnie & Clyde
- Conrad Hall, In Cold Blood
- Richard H. Kline, Camelot
- Robert Surtees, Doctor Dolittle
- Robert Surtees, The Graduate
1968 - Pasqualino De Santis, Romeo and Juliet
- Daniel L. Fapp, Ice Station Zebra
- Ernest Laszlo, Star!
- Oswald Morris, Oliver!
- Harry Stradling, Funny Girl
1969 - Conrad Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Daniel Fapp, Marooned
- Arthur Ibbetson, Anne of the Thousand Days
- Charles B. Lang, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Harry Stradling, Hello, Dolly!

1970s

1970 - Freddie Young, Ryan's Daughter
- Fred Koenekamp, Patton
- Ernest Laszlo, Airport
- Charles F. Wheeler, Osami Furuya, Sinsaku Himeda and Masamichi Satoh, Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Billy Williams, Women in Love
1971 - Oswald Morris, Fiddler on the Roof
- Owen Roizman, The French Connection
- Robert Surtees, The Last Picture Show
- Robert Surtees, Summer of '42
- Freddie Young, Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 - Geoffrey Unsworth, Cabaret
- Charles B. Lang, Butterflies Are Free
- Douglas Slocombe, Travels With My Aunt
- Harold E. Stine, The Poseidon Adventure
- Harry Stradling, Jr., 1776
1973 - Sven Nykvist, Cries and Whispers
- Jack Couffer, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Owen Roizman, The Exorcist
- Harry Stradling, Jr., The Way We Were
- Robert Surtees, The Sting
1974 - Fred Koenekamp and Joseph Biroc, The Towering Inferno
- John A. Alonzo, Chinatown
- Philip Lathrop, Earthquake
- Bruce Surtees, Lenny
- Geoffrey Unsworth, Murder on the Orient Express
1975 - John Alcott, Barry Lyndon
- Conrad Hall, The Day of the Locust
- James Wong Howe, Funny Lady
- Robert Surtees, The Hindenburg
- Haskell Wexler and Bill Butler, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976 - Haskell Wexler, Bound for Glory
- Richard H. Kline, King Kong
- Ernest Laszlo, Logan's Run
- Owen Roizman, Network
- Robert Surtees, A Star Is Born
1977 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- William A. Fraker, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
- Fred J. Koenekamp, Islands in the Stream
- Douglas Slocombe, Julia
- Robert Surtees, The Turning Point
1978 - Nestor Almendros, Days of Heaven
- William A. Fraker, Heaven Can Wait
- Oswald Morris, The Wiz
- Robert Surtees, Same Time, Next Year
- Vilmos Zsigmond, The Deer Hunter
1979 - Vittorio Storaro, Apocalypse Now
- Nestor Almendros, Kramer vs. Kramer
- William A. Fraker, 1941
- Frank Phillips, The Black Hole
- Giuseppe Rotunno, All That Jazz