Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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Charles Rosher the first recipient in 1928
Charles Rosher the first recipient in 1928

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his or her work in one particular motion picture.

In its first year, 1927-8, this award (like others such as the acting awards) was not tied to a specific film; all of the work by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was listed after their names. The problem with this system became obvious the first year, since Karl Struss and Charles Rosher were nominated for their work together on Sunrise but three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also listed as part of the nomination. The second year, 1928-9, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles which were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1929-30, films, not cinematographers, were nominated, and the final award did not show the cinematographer's name.

Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which the nomination is tied to a single film was adopted in all categories. From 1939 to 1967 (with the single exception of 1957), there were also separate awards for color and for black and white cinematography. Since then, the only black and white film to win is Schindler's List (1993).

Floyd Crosby won the last Academy Award to go to a silent film for Tabu in 1931. Hal Mohr won the only write-in Academy Award ever, in 1935 for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black and white and color cinematography.

For many years, separate Oscars were given in the same year for black-and-white and color cinematography. This did not change until the late 1960's, when the category was altered because few black-and-white films were now being made.

No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees (and of the unofficial nominees of 1928-9) are lost, including The Devil Dancer (1927), The Magic Flame (1927), and Four Devils (1928). The Right To Love (1930) is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson (1927) is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.

Joseph Ruttenberg (1938, 1942, 1956, 1958) and Leon Shamroy (1942, 1944, 1945, 1963) are the only cinematographers who have won this award four times. Shamroy was the first back-to-back winner.

Three-time winners are: Arthur C. Miller (1941, 1943, 1946), Winton Hoch (1948, 1949, 1952; the second of only three back-to-back winners); Robert Surtees (1950, 1952, 1959); Freddie Young (1962, 1965, 1970); Vittorio Storaro (1979, 1981, 1987); and Conrad Hall (1969, 1999, 2002).

Fifteen other cinematographers have won the award twice. These include John Toll, the only other person to win back-to-back awards, in 1994 and 1995.

The director whose films have won the most cinematography Academy Awards is David Lean, with five (1947, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1970).

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NOTE: This was and still is the only time in the history of the Academy Awards that a write-in candidate won in any category: Mohr had not been nominated by his fellow cinematographers, but won the award on the strength of an overwhelming write-in campaign by the full membership.

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

For 1957, there was a single award:

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

From 1967, there was a single award again:

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Academy Award of Merit:
Current Awards		 Best Picture • Best Director • Best Leading Actor • Best Leading Actress • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Original Screenplay • Best Supporting Actor • Best Supporting Actress • Best Animated Feature • Best Art Direction • Best Cinematography • Best Costume Design • Best Documentary Feature • Best Documentary Short Subject • Best Film Editing • Best Foreign Language Film (list of winners & nominees) • Best Makeup • Best Original Score • Best Original Song • Best Animated Short Film • Best Live Action Short Film • Best Sound Mixing • Best Sound Editing • Best Visual Effects
Academy Award of Merit:
Retired Awards		 Best Assistant Director • Best Dance Direction • Best Director of a Comedy Picture • Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels • Best Short Film - Novelty • Best Original Story • Best Title Writing • Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production
Special Awards:
Current Awards		 Academy Honorary Award • Academy Special Achievement Award • Academy Award, Scientific or Technical • The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award • The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award • Gordon E. Sawyer Award
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