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The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.

1980s

  • 1986: Toyomichi Kurita
    Toyomichi Kurita
    Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA.-Filmography:Kurita's credits include:*Afterglow*Taboo*Infinity*The Moderns*Cookie's Fortune*Daddy's Little Girls...

     – Trouble in Mind
    Trouble in Mind (film)
    Trouble in Mind is a 1985 neo-noir film which follows an ex-cop just released from jail after serving time for a murder sentence as he returns to the mean streets of the fictional "Rain City"....

    • Michael Ballhaus
      Michael Ballhaus
      Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. is a German cinematographer. In 1990, he was the Head of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.- Life and career :...

       – After Hours
      After Hours (film)
      After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film, written by Joseph Minion and directed by Martin Scorsese. Paul Hackett , a New Yorker, experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his way home from SoHo.-Plot:...

    • Barry Sonnenfeld
      Barry Sonnenfeld
      Barry Sonnenfeld is an American filmmaker and television director. He worked as cinematographer for the Coen brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black.-Life and career:...

       – Blood Simple
      Blood Simple
      Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...

    • Michael Chin – Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
      Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
      Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart is a 1985 film directed by Wayne Wang.It is an American comedy film starring Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong, Cora Miao, and Joan Chen.-Plot:...

  • 1987: Bob Richardson – Platoon
    Platoon (film)
    Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....

    • Frederick Elmes
      Frederick Elmes
      Frederick Elmes, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth....

       – Blue Velvet
    • Robby Müller
      Robby Müller
      Robby Müller is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.-Life and work:...

       – Down by Law
      Down by Law (film)
      Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni....

    • Bob Richardson – Salvador
      Salvador (film)
      Salvador is a 1986 war drama film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military...

    • Edward Lachman
      Edward Lachman
      Edward Lachman A.S.C. is an American cinematographer. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes and I'm Not There in 2007 and Steven Soderbergh such as Erin Brockovich ...

       – True Stories
      True Stories (film)
      True Stories is an American film that spans the genres of musical, art, and comedy, directed by and starring David Byrne of the band Talking Heads. It co-stars John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. Byrne has described the film as, "A project with songs based on true stories from tabloid...

  • 1988: Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler
    Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.-Early life and education:Wexler was born to a Jewish...

     – Matewan
    Matewan
    Matewan is an American drama film written and directed by John Sayles, illustrating the events of a coal mine-workers' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia....

    • Robby Müller
      Robby Müller
      Robby Müller is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.-Life and work:...

       – Barfly
      Barfly (film)
      Barfly is a 1987 American film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder – it was published, with illustrations by the author, in...

    • Fred Murphy – The Dead
      The Dead (1987 film)
      The Dead is a 1987 film directed by John Huston, starring his daughter Anjelica Huston. The Dead was the last film that Huston directed, and it was released posthumously....

    • Amir Mokri
      Amir Mokri
      Amir M. Mokri is an Iranian cinematographer.Mokri was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States in 1977. He graduated from Emerson College and the American Film Institute.-Filmography:* A Hero of Our Time * All You Can Dream...

       – Slam Dance
      Slam Dance (film)
      Slam Dance is a 1987 thriller directed by Wayne Wang and starring Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:A married cartoonist named C.C...

    • John Bailey
      John Bailey (cinematographer)
      John Bailey, A.S.C. is an American Cinematographer and Film Director.Born in Moberly, Missouri, Bailey attended Santa Clara University and Loyola University Chicago. During his junior year he studied German language and culture at the University of Vienna, where he developed an appreciation for...

       – Tough Guys Don't Dance
      Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
      Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.The script had revisions done...

  • 1989: Sven Nykvist
    Sven Nykvist
    Sven Vilhem Nykvist was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman...

     – The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being , written by Milan Kundera, is a philosophical novel about two men, two women, a dog and their lives in the Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Communist period in 1968. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in France...

    • Toyomichi Kurita
      Toyomichi Kurita
      Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA.-Filmography:Kurita's credits include:*Afterglow*Taboo*Infinity*The Moderns*Cookie's Fortune*Daddy's Little Girls...

       – The Moderns
      The Moderns
      The Moderns is a 1988 film by Alan Rudolph, which takes place in 1926 Paris during the period of the Lost Generation and at the height of modernist literature...

    • Gregory Cummins – Patti Rocks
    • Tom Richmond – Stand and Deliver
      Stand and Deliver
      Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film, based on the true story of high school mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante. Edward James Olmos portrayed Escalante in the film and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.-Plot:...

    • Robert Richardson – Talk Radio
      Talk Radio (film)
      Talk Radio is a 1988 American drama film, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene and Leslie Hope. Directed by Oliver Stone, the film was based on the play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar. Portions of the film and play were based on the assassination of radio host Alan Berg in 1984...


1990s

  • 1990: Robert Yeoman
    Robert Yeoman
    Robert David Yeoman is an American cinematographer and director of photography. Yeoman is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Yeoman spent his childhood in the northern suburbs of Chicago...

     – Drugstore Cowboy
    Drugstore Cowboy
    Drugstore Cowboy is a 1989 crime drama directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Van Sant and Daniel Yost, based on a novel by James Fogle. Matt Dillon stars in the title role, and Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and William S. Burroughs are also featured. Drugstore Cowboy was filmed mainly around...

    • Oliver Stapleton
      Oliver Stapleton
      Oliver Stapleton, B.S.C. is an English cinematographer.-Life and career:He graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1970 with a degree in psychology and from the National Film and Television School UK while working in South Africa and England.One of his first efforts was the student film...

       – Earth Girls Are Easy
      Earth Girls Are Easy
      Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American musical comedy film directed by Julien Temple. It stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Michael McKean, Julie Brown, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The film is marketed with the tagline "An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure"...

    • Robby Müller
      Robby Müller
      Robby Müller is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.-Life and work:...

       – Mystery Train
      Mystery Train (film)
      Mystery Train is a 1989 independent anthology film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and set in Memphis, Tennessee. The film comprises a triptych of stories involving foreign protagonists unfolding over the course of the same night...

    • Toyomichi Kurita
      Toyomichi Kurita
      Toyomichi Kurita is a Japanese cinematographer who has worked in both Japan and the USA.-Filmography:Kurita's credits include:*Afterglow*Taboo*Infinity*The Moderns*Cookie's Fortune*Daddy's Little Girls...

       – Powwow Highway
      Powwow Highway
      Powwow Highway is a 1989 comedic road movie based on a novel by David Seals. It features A Martinez, Gary Farmer, and Amanda Wyss. Wes Studi and Graham Greene, who were relatively unknown actors at the time, have small supporting roles.-Plot:...

    • Robert Tregenza – Talking to Strangers
  • 1991: Frederick Elmes
    Frederick Elmes
    Frederick Elmes, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth....

     – Wild at Heart
    Wild at Heart (film)
    Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune , a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina who go on...

    • Peter Deming
      Peter Deming
      Peter Deming A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Deming was born in Racine, Wisconsin.-Filmography:*Hollywood Shuffle - - Director of Photography...

       – House Party
      House Party (film)
      House Party is a 1990 American comedy film released by New Line Cinema. It stars Kid and Play of the popular hip hop duo Kid 'n Play, and also stars Paul Anthony, Bow-Legged Lou, and B-Fine from Full Force, and Robin Harris . The film also starred Martin Lawrence, Tisha Campbell, A.J...

    • Bojan Bazelli
      Bojan Bazelli
      Bojan Bazelli is a Montenegrin cinematographer and music video director born in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. His credits include the films The Ring, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and director Adam Shankman's Hairspray, as well as Mariah Carey's music video "Vision of Love"...

       – King of New York
      King of New York
      King of New York is a 1990 American crime drama film, starring Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes, Victor Argo, and Giancarlo Esposito. It was directed by independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara and written by Nicholas St...

    • Amir Mokri
      Amir Mokri
      Amir M. Mokri is an Iranian cinematographer.Mokri was born in Iran and emigrated to the United States in 1977. He graduated from Emerson College and the American Film Institute.-Filmography:* A Hero of Our Time * All You Can Dream...

       – Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
      Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
      Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive is a 1989 film directed by Wayne Wang. It stars Cheng Wan Kin and John Chan. It won an award at the 1990 Rotterdam International Film Festival.-Cast:*Cheng Wan Kin as Duck Killer*John Chan as The Son In Law...

    • Robert M. Young – The Plot Against Harry
      The Plot Against Harry
      The Plot Against Harry is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Michael Roemer and filmed in 1969. It was screened out of competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Martin Priest as Harry Plotnick* Ben Lang as Leo* Maxine Woods as Kay...

  • 1992: Walt Lloyd – Kafka
    Kafka (film)
    Kafka is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Ostensibly a biopic, based on the life of Franz Kafka, the film blurs the lines between fact and Kafka's fiction , creating a Kafkaesque atmosphere...

    • Roger Deakins
      Roger Deakins
      Roger Antony Deakins, ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers...

       – Homicide
      Homicide (1991 film)
      Homicide is a mystery film crime drama written and directed by David Mamet, and released in 1991. The film's cast includes Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, and Ving Rhames...

    • Eric Alan Edwards and John Campbell – My Own Private Idaho
      My Own Private Idaho
      My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 independent drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...

    • Tom Richmond – Pastime
    • Johnny Jensen
      Johnny Jensen
      Johnny Jensen is a Norwegian handball player. He played 191 matches and scored 287 goals for the Norway national handball team between 1995 and 2009. He participated at the 2001, 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Men's Handball Championship.-References:...

       – Rambling Rose
      Rambling Rose (film)
      Rambling Rose is a 1991 American film set in Georgia during the Great Depression starring Laura Dern, Diane Ladd and Robert Duvall, directed by Martha Coolidge....

  • 1993: Frederick Elmes
    Frederick Elmes
    Frederick Elmes, A.S.C. is an American cinematographer who has won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography twice, for Wild at Heart and Night on Earth....

     – Night on Earth
    • Jon Jost
      Jon Jost
      Jon Jost is an American independent filmmaker.Born in Chicago to a military family, he grew up in Georgia, Kansas, Japan, Italy, Germany and Virginia. He began making films in January 1963 after being expelled from college. In 1965 he was imprisoned by US authorities for 2 years 3 months for...

       – All the Vermeers in New York
      All the Vermeers in New York
      All the Vermeers in New York is a 1990 film written, directed and produced by Jon Jost....

    • Jean de Segonzac
      Jean de Segonzac
      Jean R. B. de Segonzac is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer who has worked in documentaries and television programs...

       – Laws of Gravity
    • Edward Lachman
      Edward Lachman
      Edward Lachman A.S.C. is an American cinematographer. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes and I'm Not There in 2007 and Steven Soderbergh such as Erin Brockovich ...

       – Light Sleeper
      Light Sleeper
      Light Sleeper is an US-american drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader in 1992. It stars Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany....

    • Ellen Kuras
      Ellen Kuras
      Ellen Kuras ASC is an American cinematographer and director. She has collaborated several times with directors Michel Gondry and Spike Lee.-Filmography:*"Public Speaking" *Away We Go...

       – Swoon
      Swoon (film)
      Swoon is an independent film written and directed by Tom Kalin, released in 1992. It is an account of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other movies based on the case...

  • 1994: Lisa Rinzler – Menace II Society
    Menace II Society
    Menace II Society is a 1993 urban crime drama and the directorial debut of twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes. Menace II Society is set in South Central Los Angeles and follows the life of a hoodlum named Caine Lawson and his close friends. The film gained notoriety for its frequent scenes of...

    • James Bagdonas – American Heart
      American Heart
      American Heart is a 1993 film by Martin Bell, starring Edward Furlong and Jeff Bridges. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in a number of categories, and won in the Best Male Lead category.-Synopsis:...

    • Nancy Schreiber – Chain of Desire
      Chain of Desire
      Chain of Desire is an American 1992 drama - romance film directed by Temístocles López. The film was presented at the Turin Film Festival in November 1992 and was released in the USA on June 25, 1993.-Cast:* Mickey Cottrell - Procurer...

    • Elliot Davis – Equinox
      Equinox (1992 film)
      Equinox is a 1992 film written and directed by Alan Rudolph. It stars Matthew Modine in dual roles, along with Lara Flynn Boyle, Marisa Tomei, Lori Singer and Fred Ward. The film was shot in Minnesota and Utah and is set in the fictional urban city of Empire...

    • Alex Vlacos – Ruby in Paradise
      Ruby in Paradise
      Ruby in Paradise is a 1993 film written, directed, and edited by Victor Nuñez, and starring Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, and Dorothy Lyman. It is an homage to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.-Synopsis:...

  • 1995: John Thomas – Barcelona
    Barcelona (film)
    Barcelona is a 1994 comedy film written and directed by Whit Stillman and set in Barcelona, Spain. The movie stars Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman and Mira Sorvino.-Plot:...

    • Stevan Larner – The Beans of Egypt, Maine
    • Jong Lin – Eat Drink Man Woman
      Eat Drink Man Woman
      Eat Drink Man Woman is a Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee and starring Sihung Lung, Yu-wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-mei Yang. Many of the cast had starred in Ang Lee's previous film, The Wedding Banquet with Sihung Lung and Ah Lei Gua once more playing central elderly figures, and Winston Chao...

    • Alexander Gruzynski – I Like It Like That
    • Greg Gardiner
      Greg Gardiner
      -Filmography:-Awards:*1995 won the Cinematography Award for the film Suture at the Sundance Film Festival-External links:*http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Greg_Gardiner/3078418...

       – Suture
      Suture (film)
      Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

  • 1996: Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn is an Irish-American cinematographer and a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn is one of five children. His four siblings, the most famous of whom is Aidan, are actors...

     – Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving Las Vegas
    Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film directed and written by Mike Figgis, based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic who has ended his personal and professional life to drink himself to death in Las Vegas...

    • Tom Richmond – Little Odessa
      Little Odessa
      Little Odessa is an American crime film released in 1994 by James Gray, featuring Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly and Vanessa Redgrave.The film earned a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Critic Prize at the Deauville Film Festival...

    • Jim Denault – Nadja
      Nadja (film)
      Nadja is a 1994 film by Michael Almereyda starring Elina Löwensohn as the creature Nadja and Peter Fonda as Van Helsing. As the character's names suggest, Nadja is a vampire film, but treating elements of the genre in an understated arthouse style....

    • Elliot Davis – The Underneath
    • Newton Thomas Sigel
      Newton Thomas Sigel
      Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC is an American cinematographer who mainly works with Bryan Singer. His father, Irving Sigel, was a noted psychologist who worked for the Educational Testing Service.-Filmography:*Latino...

       – The Usual Suspects
      The Usual Suspects
      The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. It stars Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey and Pete Postlethwaite....

  • 1997: Roger Deakins
    Roger Deakins
    Roger Antony Deakins, ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers...

     – Fargo
    Fargo (film)
    Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...

    • Bill Pope
      Bill Pope
      William Homer "Bill" Pope, A.S.C. is an award-winning American cinematographer, best known for his work on Sam Raimi's films and the Matrix trilogy.-Filmography:1989 - Pet Sematary1990 - Darkman1991 - Closet Land...

       – Bound
      Bound (film)
      Bound is a 1996 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by the Wachowski brothers. Violet , who longs to escape her relationship with her mafioso boyfriend Caesar , enters into a clandestine affair with alluring ex-con Corky , and the two women hatch a scheme to steal $2 million of mafia money.Bound...

    • Rob Sweeney – Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
      Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
      Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day is a 1996 drama film written and directed by Christopher Münch. It stars Peter Alexander and features R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe...

    • Robby Müller
      Robby Müller
      Robby Müller is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.-Life and work:...

       – Dead Man
      Dead Man
      Dead Man is a 1995 American Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, and Robert Mitchum . The film, dubbed an "Acid Western" by its director, includes twisted...

    • Ken Kelsch – The Funeral
      The Funeral (1996 film)
      The Funeral is a 1996 American crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Annabella Sciorra, Isabella Rossellini, Vincent Gallo, Benicio del Toro and Gretchen Mol....

  • 1998: Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn is an Irish-American cinematographer and a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn is one of five children. His four siblings, the most famous of whom is Aidan, are actors...

     – Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
    Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
    Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 American drama film directed by Mira Nair. The film takes its title from the ancient Indian text, the Kama Sutra, but this only serves as a common link between the characters....

    • Alex Vendler – The Bible and Gun Club
    • Frank DeMarco – Habit
      Habit (film)
      Habit is a 1997 vampire horror film written, directed, and starring Larry Fessenden. It received rave reviews at the Chicago and Los Angeles International Film Festivals. It is a remake of the 1985 film of the same name.-Plot:...

    • Robert Elswit
      Robert Elswit
      Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC is an American cinematographer. He has had multiple Oscar, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit nominations for several films, including There Will Be Blood. Elswit frequently works with director Paul Thomas Anderson.Elswit is a fierce defender of shooting with film, and...

       – Hard Eight
      Hard Eight (film)
      Hard Eight is a 1996 American crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson...

    • Michael Barrow and John Foster – Sunday
  • 1999: Maryse Alberti
    Maryse Alberti
    Maryse Alberti is a French cinematographer who mainly works in the United States on independent fiction films and vérité, observational documentaries. Alberti has won awards from the Sundance Film Festival and the Spirit Awards...

     – Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine
    Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...

    • Paul Sarossy
      Paul Sarossy
      Paul Sarossy is a Canadian Cinematographer and director who has won 15 awards & who has been nominated 5 times for various awards.He has worked for Atom Egoyan on numerous films such as Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, The Line, Felicia's Journey, Krapp's Last Tape,...

       – Affliction
      Affliction (film)
      Affliction is an US-American drama film produced in 1997, written and directed by Paul Schrader from the novel by Russell Banks. It stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn and Willem Dafoe....

    • Malik Sayeed – Belly
      Belly (film)
      Belly is a 1998 film, the film directorial debut of music video director Hype Williams. Filmed in New York City as an urban drama, the film stars rappers DMX and Nas, alongside with Taral Hicks, Method Man dancehall artist Louie Rankin, R&B singer T-Boz...

    • Tami Reiker – High Art
      High Art
      High Art is an independent film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell.- Synopsis :Sydney , age 24, is a woman who has her whole life mapped out in front of her...

    • Matthew Libatique
      Matthew Libatique
      Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer best known for his work with director Darren Aronofsky on such films as π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and Black Swan.-Background:...

       – Pi
      Pi (film)
      Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...


2000s

  • 2000: Lisa Rinzler – Three Seasons
    Three Seasons
    Three Seasons is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City in the early days of New Vietnam. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the urban culture undergoing westernization. The movie takes place in Ho Chi...

    • Harlan Bosmajian – The City
      The City (1998 film)
      The City is an American neo-realist film written and directed by David Riker, his first feature film, and shot in gritty black-and-white film stock. The drama features actor Joseph Rigano and, in neo-realist fashion, an ensemble cast of non-professional actors...

    • Jeffrey Seckendorf – Judy Berlin
      Judy Berlin
      Judy Berlin is a 1999 American drama film directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.Mendelsohn won the directing prize for Judy Berlin at the 1999 Sundance International Film Festival...

    • Anthony Dod Mantle
      Anthony Dod Mantle
      Anthony Dod Mantle BSC is a British cinematographer notable for his work in digital cinematography.-Career:Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of Wallander. He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do...

       – Julien Donkey-Boy
      Julien Donkey-Boy
      Julien Donkey-Boy is a 1999 independent drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine. The screenplay concentrates on the schizophrenic Julien, played by Scottish actor Ewen Bremner, and his dysfunctional family. The film also stars Chloe Sevigny as Julien's sister, Pearl, and Werner Herzog as...

    • M. David Mullen
      M. David Mullen
      David Mullen, A.S.C. is an eminent Japanese born cinematographer famed for his photography on Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork, Akeelah and the Bee and The Astronaut Farmer...

       – Twin Falls Idaho
      Twin Falls Idaho (film)
      Twin Falls Idaho is a 1999 independent film directed by Michael Polish, who co-wrote and co-stars in the film with his identical twin brother, Mark Polish.-Plot:...

  • 2001: Matthew Libatique
    Matthew Libatique
    Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer best known for his work with director Darren Aronofsky on such films as π, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and Black Swan.-Background:...

     – Requiem for a Dream
    • Xavier Grobet and Guillermo Rosas – Before Night Falls
      Before Night Falls (film)
      Before Night Falls is a 2000 film directed by Julian Schnabel. The screenplay is based on the autobiography of the same name of Reinaldo Arenas, which was published in English in 1993. The screenplay was written by Schnabel, Cunningham O'Keefe, and Lázaro Gómez Carriles...

    • Tim Orr
      Tim Orr
      Tim Orr is an American cinematographer known mostly for his work with director, David Gordon Green. Orr graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998...

       – George Washington
      George Washington (film)
      George Washington is a 2000 American drama film about a group of children in a depressed small town in North Carolina. The children band together to cover up a tragic mistake. The film is written and directed by David Gordon Green.-Plot:...

    • John De Borman – Hamlet
      Hamlet (2000 film)
      Hamlet is a 2000 American film written and directed by Michael Almereyda, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare play of the same name...

    • Lou Bogue – Shadow of the Vampire
      Shadow of the Vampire
      Shadow of the Vampire is a 2000 horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven Katz, and starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, and Udo Kier. The film is a fictionalized account of the making of the classic vampire film Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, directed by F. W....

  • 2002: Peter Deming
    Peter Deming
    Peter Deming A.S.C. is an American cinematographer, winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Deming was born in Racine, Wisconsin.-Filmography:*Hollywood Shuffle - - Director of Photography...

     – Mulholland Drive
    Mulholland Drive (film)
    Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    • W. Mott Hupfel III – The American Astronaut
      The American Astronaut
      The American Astronaut is a 2001 space-western/musical, directed by and starring Cory McAbee. The film was released on DVD in Spring of 2005. The band Billy Nayer Show, helmed by McAbee, wrote and performed the film's soundtrack.- Plot Summary :...

    • Giles Nuttgens
      Giles Nuttgens
      Giles Nuttgens BSC, is a British cinematographer. He is best known to fans of independent art house fare for his work on Deepa Mehta's "Elements trilogy", consisting of the films Fire , Earth and Water , and to general audiences for his work as cinematographer on the big-budget science fiction...

       – The Deep End
      The Deep End (film)
      The Deep End is a 2001 film that was written and directed by David Siegel and Scott McGehee. It stars Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker and Josh Lucas and was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film was very loosely adapted from the novel The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay...

    • Frank DeMarco – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
      Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
      Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film based on the stage musical of the same title about a fictional rock band fronted by an East German transgender singer. The film was adapted and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who also portrayed the title role...

    • Wally Pfister – Memento
  • 2003: Edward Lachman
    Edward Lachman
    Edward Lachman A.S.C. is an American cinematographer. Lachman is mostly associated with the American independent film movement, and has served as director of photography on films by Todd Haynes and I'm Not There in 2007 and Steven Soderbergh such as Erin Brockovich ...

     – Far from Heaven
    Far from Heaven
    Far from Heaven is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes and starring Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, and Patricia Clarkson....

    • Harris Savides
      Harris Savides
      Harris Savides is a contemporary American cinematographer. Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy , The Game, Zodiac and American Gangster....

       – Gerry
    • Richard Rutkowski – Interview with the Assassin
      Interview with the Assassin
      Interview with the Assassin is a 2002 drama/"mockumentary" starring Raymond J. Barry and Dylan Haggerty.-Plot:An unemployed cameraman, Ron Kobeleski , is asked by his reclusive neighbor, a retired Marine named Walter Ohlinger who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, to document a startling...

    • Alex Nepomniaschy
      Alex Nepomniaschy
      Alex Nepomniaschy is an American cinematographer. He was born 1955 in Moscow in what was then the Soviet Union.-Awards:At the 1988 Sundance Film Festival, he won the Best Cinematographer Award for his work on Beirut: The Last Home Movie...

       – Narc
      Narc (film)
      Narc is a 2002 crime film about corrupt police involved in the illegal drug trade. It was released to critical acclaim and moderate commercial success. It was written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The plot revolves around the efforts of two police detectives as they search for the murderer of an...

    • Ellen Kuras
      Ellen Kuras
      Ellen Kuras ASC is an American cinematographer and director. She has collaborated several times with directors Michel Gondry and Spike Lee.-Filmography:*"Public Speaking" *Away We Go...

       – Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
      Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
      Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a 2002 American independent film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.- Plot :Personal Velocity is a tale of three women who have reached a turning point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class woman from a small town in New York state who leaves...

  • 2004: Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn
    Declan Quinn is an Irish-American cinematographer and a three-time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography.Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Quinn is one of five children. His four siblings, the most famous of whom is Aidan, are actors...

     – In America
    • Harris Savides
      Harris Savides
      Harris Savides is a contemporary American cinematographer. Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy , The Game, Zodiac and American Gangster....

       – Elephant
    • M. David Mullen
      M. David Mullen
      David Mullen, A.S.C. is an eminent Japanese born cinematographer famed for his photography on Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork, Akeelah and the Bee and The Astronaut Farmer...

       – Northfork
      Northfork
      Northfork is a 2003 film directed by Michael Polish and written by Michael and Mark Polish. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2003 and later received a limited release in the United States on July 11, 2003. The film stars James Woods, Nick Nolte, Daryl Hannah, Anthony...

    • Mandy Walker
      Mandy Walker
      Mandy Walker is an award-winning Australian cinematographer.Born and raised in Melbourne, Walker became interested in photography while a student in high school. After graduation she studied film criticism and cinema studies with John Flaus, who introduced her to several people working in the...

       – Shattered Glass
    • Derek Cianfrance
      Derek Cianfrance
      -Biography:Cianfrance earned a B.F.A. in Film Production from the University of Colorado, studying under avant-garde filmmakers Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon. At 23, he wrote, directed and edited his first feature film, Brother Tied, which was well-received at festivals including Sundance.His...

       – Streets of Legend
  • 2005: Eric Gautier – The Motorcycle Diaries
    The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
    At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...

    • Tim Orr
      Tim Orr
      Tim Orr is an American cinematographer known mostly for his work with director, David Gordon Green. Orr graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998...

       – Dandelion
      Dandelion (film)
      Dandelion is a 2004 film directed and co-written by Mark Milgard and stars Vincent Kartheiser , Taryn Manning , Arliss Howard , and Mare Winningham...

    • David Greene – Redemption
      Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
      Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story is a TV-movie starring Jamie Foxx and Lynn Whitfield. The film was directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall...

    • Ryan Little
      Ryan Little
      Ryan Little is a movie director, cinematographer and producer. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Awards and nominations:*Won, 2006, Heartland Film Festival's Crystal Heart Award for independent filmmakers, for Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy*Won, 2003, Viewer's Choice...

       – Saints and Soldiers
      Saints and Soldiers
      Saints and Soldiers is a 2003 drama-war film featuring Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver, Kirby Heyborne, Lawrence Bagby and Peter Holden.It is based loosely around events taking place shortly after the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge where several US soldiers and a downed British...

    • Maryse Alberti
      Maryse Alberti
      Maryse Alberti is a French cinematographer who mainly works in the United States on independent fiction films and vérité, observational documentaries. Alberti has won awards from the Sundance Film Festival and the Spirit Awards...

       – We Don't Live Here Anymore
      We Don't Live Here Anymore
      We Don't Live Here Anymore is a 2004 drama film directed by John Curran. It is based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus.Set in Washington state, the film was shot around Vancouver.-Cast:...

  • 2006: Robert Elswit
    Robert Elswit
    Robert Christopher Elswit, ASC is an American cinematographer. He has had multiple Oscar, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit nominations for several films, including There Will Be Blood. Elswit frequently works with director Paul Thomas Anderson.Elswit is a fierce defender of shooting with film, and...

     – Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S...

    • Adam Kimmel – Capote
      Capote (film)
      Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood. Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title role. The movie was...

    • John Foster – Keane
      Keane (film)
      Keane is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Lodge Kerrigan. Set in New York City, it focuses on a mentally disturbed man trying to come to terms with the abduction of his daughter several months earlier and the relationship he develops with a young girl and her mother.The film...

    • Harris Savides
      Harris Savides
      Harris Savides is a contemporary American cinematographer. Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy , The Game, Zodiac and American Gangster....

       – Last Days
      Last Days (film)
      Last Days is a 2005 American film directed, produced, and written by Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005, and was produced by HBO. The film stars Michael Pitt as the...

    • Chris Menges
      Chris Menges
      Chris Menges BSC, ASC, is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.-Life and career:...

       – The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
      The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
      The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....

  • 2007: Guillermo Navarro
    Guillermo Navarro
    Guillermo Navarro, ASC, A.M.C. is a Mexican cinematographer. He has worked in Hollywood since 1993 and is a frequent collaborator of Guillermo del Toro and Robert Rodriguez. In 2006 he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film, Pan's Labyrinth...

     – Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...

    • Anthony Dod Mantle
      Anthony Dod Mantle
      Anthony Dod Mantle BSC is a British cinematographer notable for his work in digital cinematography.-Career:Dod Mantle directed photography on three Dogme 95 films and the first two episodes of Wallander. He used the Red One digital camera on Wallander, the first British television production to do...

       – Brothers of the Head
      Brothers of the Head
      Brothers of the Head is a 2005 mockumentary featuring the story of Tom and Barry Howe , conjoined twins living in the United Kingdom...

    • Arin Crumley – Four Eyed Monsters
      Four Eyed Monsters
      Four Eyed Monsters is a 2005 film by Susan Buice and Arin Crumley. It roughly follows Buice and Crumley's real life relationship; the couple initially communicated only through artistic means because Arin was too shy to introduce himself to Susan...

    • Michael Simmonds – Man Push Cart
      Man Push Cart
      Man Push Cart is a 2005 American independent film by Ramin Bahrani that tells the story of a former Pakistani rock star who sells coffee and bagels from his pushcart on the streets of Manhattan.-Synopsis:...

    • Aaron Platt
      Aaron Platt
      Aaron Platt, , is an American film director and cinematographer residing in Los Angeles, California.Platt's body of work consists of cinematography for music videos, feature films and commercials and directing commercials and music videos....

       – Wild Tigers I Have Known
      Wild Tigers I Have Known
      Wild Tigers I Have Known is a 2006 film written and directed by Cam Archer. The film premeried at the Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of a thirteen-year boy, Logan, played by Malcolm Stumpf, who enters into a relationship with an older boy, Rodeo. Logan's friend, Joey, was played...

  • 2008: Janusz Kamiński
    Janusz Kaminski
    Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.-Life and career:...

     – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a translation of the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby. It describes what his life is like after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition called locked-in syndrome...

    • Rodrigo Prieto
      Rodrigo Prieto
      -Life and career:Prieto was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His grandfather was mayor of Mexico City and leader of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, but was later persecuted by the country's ruler because of political differences. The grandfather escaped with his family to Texas and then to Los...

       – Lust, Caution
    • W. Mott Hupful III – The Savages
      The Savages (film)
      The Savages is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.-Plot:...

    • Milton Kam – Vanaja
    • Mihai Malaimare Jr.
      Mihai Malaimare Jr.
      Mihai Malaimare Jr. is a cinematographer from Romania. He was a cinematographer on films directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He was nominated for best cinematography at the Independent Spirit Awards 2008 for Youth Without Youth.-Feature Filmography:...

       – Youth Without Youth
  • 2009: Maryse Alberti
    Maryse Alberti
    Maryse Alberti is a French cinematographer who mainly works in the United States on independent fiction films and vérité, observational documentaries. Alberti has won awards from the Sundance Film Festival and the Spirit Awards...

     – The Wrestler
    • Lol Crawley – Ballast
      Ballast (film)
      Ballast is a 2008 film directed by Lance Hammer. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography...

    • Michael Simmonds – Chop Shop
      Chop Shop (film)
      Chop Shop is a 2007 American drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Ramin Bahrani. The film tells the story of a twelve-year-old street orphan living and working in Willets Point, an area in Queens, New York filled with automobile repair shops, scrapyards and garbage dumps.Chop Shop...

    • James Laxton – Medicine for Melancholy
    • Harris Savides
      Harris Savides
      Harris Savides is a contemporary American cinematographer. Notable films include Gus Van Sant's "young death" trilogy , The Game, Zodiac and American Gangster....

       – Milk
      Milk (film)
      Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...


2010s

  • 2010: Roger Deakins
    Roger Deakins
    Roger Antony Deakins, ASC, BSC is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers...

     – A Serious Man
    A Serious Man
    A Serious Man is a 2009 dark comedy written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading to questions about his faith...

    • Peter Zeitlinger
      Peter Zeitlinger
      Peter Zeitlinger is an Austrian cinematographer, who has worked with the director Werner Herzog since 1995. The film Encounters at the End of the World was nominated for the Academy Award 2009. Peter Zeitlinger studied from 1980 - 1987 at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna...

       – The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans
      Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
      Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a 2009 American crime drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage.-Overview:...

    • Andrij Parekh
      Andrij Parekh
      Andrij Parekh is an American cinematographer.Parekh was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts of Ukrainian and Indian descent. Andrij studied cinematography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the FAMU film school in Prague. He currently lives and works in New York City, shooting features and music...

       – Cold Souls
      Cold Souls
      Cold Souls is a 2009 comedy-drama film written and directed by Sophie Barthes. The film features Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, and David Strathairn. Giamatti stars as a fictionalised version of himself, an anxious, overwhelmed actor who decides to enlist the service of a company to deep...

    • Adriano Goldman
      Adriano Goldman
      Adriano Goldman is a Brazilian director and cinematographer born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He won "Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic" during the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his cinematography in Cary Joji Fukunaga's 2009 film Sin Nombre....

       – Sin Nombre
      Sin Nombre (2009 film)
      Sin Nombre is an American and Mexican film written and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.Filmed in Spanish, the film's name means "Nameless"...

    • Anne Misawa – Treeless Mountain
      Treeless Mountain
      Treeless Mountain is a 2008 South Korean drama film written and directed by So Yong Kim. It stars Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim, Soo Ah Lee, Mi Hyang Kim, Boon Tak Park. It premiered on September 5, 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival...

  • 2011
    • Joel Hodge - Bellflower
      Bellflower (film)
      Bellflower is a 2011 American film written and directed by Evan Glodell. It was produced on a shoestring budget in Ventura, California and premiered in January 2011 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival....

    • Benjamin Kasulke - The Off Hours
      The Off Hours
      The Off Hours is an American film written and directed by Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths. The full length feature film is akin to real life events that happened at a truck stop. It was distinguished due to its adoption of environmental and socially acceptable settings, which has won recognition...

    • Darius Khondji
      Darius Khondji
      Darius Khondji A.S.C. is an Iranian-French cinematographer. He has worked with such well-known directors as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, David Fincher, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alan Parker, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Woody Allen, and Wong Kar-wai.-Biography:...

       - Midnight in Paris
      Midnight in Paris
      Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure...

    • Guillaume Schiffman - The Artist
      The Artist (film)
      The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the...

    • Jeffrey Waldron - The Dynamiter

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