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Poll: Best Cinematographer

Who do you consider to be the best cinematographer of all time?
A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image. The study and practice of this field are referred to as cinematography. Find out more about them here.

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    Emmanuel Lubezki

    3 Oscar Wins and 8 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: The Revenant, Birdman, Gravity, and Children of Men.

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    Robert Richardson

    3 Oscar Wins and 9 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Hugo, Django Unchained, The Aviator, Inglourious Basterds, and The Hateful Eight.

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    Roger Deakins

    1 Oscar Wins and 13 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Blade Runner 2049, Sicario, and No Country for Old Men.

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    Hoyte Van Hoytema

    Nominated for 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: Dunkirk, Interstellar, Spectre, and Her.

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    Larry Fong

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    Wally Pfister

    1 Oscar Wins and 4 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Inception, The Prestige, Memento, and The Dark Knight Trilogy.

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    Robert Elswit

    1 Oscar Wins and 2 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: There Will Be Blood and Nightcrawler (2014)[/linkTo].

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    John Alcott

    Won 1 Oscar.

    Best known Films: The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon.

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    Andrew Lesnie

    Won 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit Trilogy.

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    Janusz Kaminski

    2 Oscar Wins and 6 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Ready Player One.

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    Michael Ballhaus

    Nominated for 3 Oscars.

    Best Known Films: Goodfellas, The Departed, Gangs of New York, and The Last Temptation of Christ.

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    Geoffrey Unsworth

    2 Oscar Wins and 4 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Classic Superman Films, and Cabaret.

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    Leon Shamroy

    4 Oscar Wins and 18 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Cleopatra, The Black Swan, Leave Her to Heaven, and Wilson.

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    Joseph Ruttenberg

    4 Oscar Wins and 10 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Mrs. Miniver, The Great Waltz, Somebody Up There Likes Me, and Gigi.

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    Robert Surtees

    3 Oscar Wins and 14 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Ben-Hur, The Graduate, and The Last Picture Show.

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    Conrad L. Hall

    3 Oscar Wins and 10 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: American Beauty, Road to Perdition, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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    Mauro Fiore

    Won 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: Avatar and Training Day.

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    Rodrigo Prieto

    Nominated for 2 Oscars.

    Best Known Films: The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman, babel, and Silence.

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    Vittorio Storaro

    3 Oscar Wins and 4 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Apocalypse Now, Dick Tracey, and The Last Emperor.

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    Dan Laustsen

    Nominated for 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: The Shape of Water, John Wick: Chapter 2, and John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.

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    Matthew Libatique

    Nominated for 2 Oscars.

    Best Known Films: Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, A Star is Born, Iron Man, and Venom.

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    Dean Cundey

    Nominated for 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: Jurassic Park, Halloween, The Thing, and Back to the Future.

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    Freddie Young

    3 Oscar Wins and 5 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter.

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    John Toll

    2 Oscar Wins and 3 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Braveheart, The Thin Red Line, and Legends of the Fall.

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    Allen Daviau

    Nominated for 5 Oscars.

    Best Known Films: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, and The Color Purple.

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    Gregg Toland

    1 Oscar Wins and 6 Oscar Nominations.

    Best Known Films: Citizen Kane, Wuthering Heights, and Dead End.

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    Gordon Willis

    Nominated for 2 Oscars.

    Best Known for The Godfather Trilogy.

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    Rachel Morrison

    Nominated for 1 Oscar.

    Best Known Films: Black Panther and Mudbound.

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    Tonino Delli Colli

    Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award.

    Best Known Films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, and Once Upon a Time in America.


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