BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
The BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography is a film award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at the annual British Academy Film Awards to recognize a cinematographer who has delivered outstanding cinematography in a film.
BAFTA is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games. Since 1963, selected cinematographers have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Cinematography at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple nominations
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- Christopher Challis
- Bruno Delbonnel
- Freddie Francis
- Greig Fraser
- Hoyte van Hoytema
- Emmanuel Lubezki
- Rodrigo Prieto
- Robert Richardson
- Vittorio Storaro
- Freddie Young
- Barry Ackroyd
- John Alcott
- Michael Ballhaus
- Dion Beebe
- Denys Coop
- Conrad Hall
- Jack Hildyard
- Andrew Lesnie
- Seamus McGarvey
- Claudio Miranda
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Linus Sandgren
- Gerry Turpin
- Billy Williams
- Gordon Willis
- Łukasz Żal
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Peter Biziou
- Jarin Blaschke
- Sean Bobbitt
- Russell Boyd
- Danny Cohen
- Dean Cundey
- Allen Daviau
- Anthony Dod Mantle
- Gerry Fisher
- William A. Fraker
- Otto Heller
- Kenneth Higgins
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Dan Laustsen
- Matthew Libatique
- Donald McAlpine
- Ted Moore
- Sven Nykvist
- Phedon Papamichael
- Wally Pfister
- Roger Pratt
- Nicolas Roeg
- Giuseppe Rotunno
- Robbie Ryan
- Takao Saitô
- Eduardo Serra
- Dante Spinotti
- Gilbert Taylor
- Ronnie Taylor
- Masaharu Ueda
Multiple wins
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