Best Cinematography - Nominees & Winners
First awarded in 1929
From 1939 to 1966, they split the title between a black/white and a film in color--
Most wins Leon Shamroy & Joseph Ruttenberg won 4
Most nominations Leon Shamroy & Charles Lang with 18
Emmanuel Lubezki holds the longest consecutive streak with 3 from 2013-2015
Director David Lean holds the title for directors with 5 wins in 6 nominations.
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From 1939 to 1966, they split the title between a black/white and a film in color--
Most wins Leon Shamroy & Joseph Ruttenberg won 4
Most nominations Leon Shamroy & Charles Lang with 18
Emmanuel Lubezki holds the longest consecutive streak with 3 from 2013-2015
Director David Lean holds the title for directors with 5 wins in 6 nominations.
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- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsLionel BarrymoreBlanche FridericiCharles LaneA prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.For 1927-1928
Nominee: George Barnes - DirectorHenry KingStarsRonald ColmanVilma BánkyAgostino BorgatoA love triangle involving two members of a travelling circus and an aristocrat has serious consequences for all three individuals.For 1927-1928
Nominee: George Barnes - DirectorFred NibloStarsGilda GrayClive BrookAnna May WongAn English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl with whom he has become fascinated.For 1927-1928
Nominee: George Barnes - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.For 1929
Nominee: Ernest Palmer (no official nominees had been announced this year) - DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsJoan CrawfordJohnny Mack BrownNils AstherA flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.For 1929
Nominee: George Barnes (no official nominees had been announced this year) - DirectorIrving CummingsRaoul WalshStarsEdmund LoweWarner BaxterDorothy BurgessA charming, happy-go-lucky bandit in old Arizona plays cat-and-mouse with the sheriff trying to catch him while he romances a local beauty.For 1929
Nominee: Arthur Edeson (no official nominees had been announced this year) - DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithVictor VarconiH.B. WarnerThe story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.For 1929
Nominee: John F. Seitz (no official nominees had been announced this year) - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsJanet GaynorMary DuncanCharles MortonFour orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus.For 1929
Nominee: Ernest Palmer (no official nominees had been announced this year) - DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert J. FlahertyStarsMonte BlueRaquel TorresRobert AndersonAn alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.For 1929
Won by Clyde De Vinna - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMaurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonaldLupino LaneThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.For 1930
Nominee: Victor Milner - DirectorHoward HughesEdmund GouldingJames WhaleStarsBen LyonJames HallJean HarlowBrothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGreta GarboCharles BickfordGeorge F. MarionA young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.For 1930
Nominee: William H. Daniels - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsLew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WrayA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.For 1930
Nominee: Arthur Edeson - StarsRichard E. ByrdClair D. AlexanderBernt BalchenAccount of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJohn BarrymoreMarian MarshDonald CrispThrough hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.For 1931
Nominee: Barney McGill - DirectorRichard WallaceStarsRuth ChattertonPaul LukasDavid MannersA woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.For 1931
Nominee: Charles Lang - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsGary CooperMarlene DietrichAdolphe MenjouA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.For 1931
Nominee: Lee Garmes - DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.For 1931
Nominee: Edward Cronjager - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsAnne ChevalierMatahiHituOn the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.For 1931
Won by Floyd Crosby - DirectorRouben MamoulianStarsFredric MarchMiriam HopkinsRose HobartDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.For 1932
Nominee: Karl Struss - DirectorJohn FordStarsRonald ColmanHelen HayesRichard BennettA medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.For 1932
Nominee: Ray June - DirectorJosef von SternbergStarsMarlene DietrichClive BrookAnna May WongA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.For 1932
Won by Lee Garmes - DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsFredric MarchClaudette ColbertElissa LandiA Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.For 1933
Nominee: Karl Struss - DirectorSidney FranklinStarsJohn BarrymoreDiana WynyardFrank MorganAn archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.For 1933
Nominee: George J. Folsey