Independent Spirit Award For Best Cinematography

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers, since 1985.

Winners and nominees

1980s

* 1985: Toyomichi Kurita – '' Trouble in Mind''
** Michael Ballhaus – '' After Hours''
** Barry Sonnenfeld – ''Blood Simple''
** Michael Chin – '' Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart''
* 1986: Robert Richardson – ''Platoon''
** Frederick Elmes – '' Blue Velvet''
** Robby Müller – '' Down by Law''
** Robert Richardson – '' Salvador''
** Edward Lachman – '' True Stories''
* 1987: Haskell Wexler – ''Matewan''
** Robby Müller – '' Barfly''
** Fred Murphy – '' The Dead''
** Amir Mokri – '' Slam Dance''
** John Bailey – '' Tough Guys Don't Dance''
* 1988: Sven Nykvist – ''The Unbearable Lightness of Being''
** Toyomichi Kurita – ''The Moderns''
** Gregory M. Cummins – ''Patti Rocks''
** Tom Richmond – ''Stand and Deliver''
** Robert Richardson – ''Talk Radio''
* 1989: Robert Yeoman – ''Drugstore Cowboy''
** Oliver Stapleton – ''Earth Girls Are Easy''
** Robby Müller – ''Mystery Train''
** Toyomichi Kurita – ''Powwow Highway''
** Rob Tregenza – ''Talking to Strangers''

1990s

* 1990: Frederick Elmes – '' Wild at Heart''
** Peter Deming – ''House Party''
** Bojan Bazelli – ''King of New York''
** Amir Mokri – '' Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive''
** Robert M. Young – ''The Plot Against Harry''
* 1991: Walt Lloyd – ''Kafka''
** Roger Deakins – ''Homicide''
** Eric Alan Edwards and John J. Campbell – ''My Own Private Idaho''
** Tom Richmond – ''Pastime''
** Johnny E. Jensen – '' Rambling Rose''
* 1992: Frederick Elmes – ''Night on Earth''
** Jon Jost – ''All the Vermeers in New York''
** Jean de Segonzac – '' Laws of Gravity''
** Edward Lachman – ''Light Sleeper''
** Ellen Kuras – '' Swoon''
* 1993: Lisa Rinzler – ''Menace II Society''
** James R. Bagdonas – '' American Heart''
** Nancy Schreiber – ''Chain of Desire''
** Elliot Davis – ''Equinox''
** Alex Vlacos – ''Ruby in Paradise''
* 1994: John Thomas – ''Barcelona''
** Stevan Larner – '' The Beans of Egypt, Maine''
** Jong Lin – ''Eat Drink Man Woman''
** Alexander Gruszynski – '' I Like It Like That''
** Greg Gardiner – '' Suture''
* 1995: Declan Quinn – ''Leaving Las Vegas''
** Tom Richmond – '' Little Odessa''
** Jim Denault – '' Nadja''
** Elliot Davis – '' The Underneath''
** Newton Thomas Sigel – ''The Usual Suspects''
* 1996: Roger Deakins – '' Fargo''
** Bill Pope – ''Bound''
** Rob Sweeney – '' Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day''
** Robby Müller – ''Dead Man''
** Ken Kelsch – '' The Funeral''
* 1997: Declan Quinn – '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love''
** Alex Vendler – ''The Bible and Gun Club''
** Frank G. DeMarco – ''Habit''
** Robert Elswit – '' Hard Eight''
** Michael Barrow and John Foster – ''Sunday''
* 1998: Maryse Alberti – ''Velvet Goldmine''
** Paul Sarossy – ''Affliction''
** Malik Hassan Sayeed – ''Belly''
** Tami Reiker – ''High Art''
** Matthew Libatique – '' Pi''
* 1999: Lisa Rinzler – ''Three Seasons''
** Harlan Bosmajian – '' The City''
** Jeffrey Seckendorf – ''Judy Berlin''
** Anthony Dod Mantle – ''Julien Donkey-Boy''
** M. David Mullen – ''Twin Falls Idaho''

2000s

* 2000: Matthew Libatique – ''Requiem for a Dream''
** Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas – ''Before Night Falls''
** Tim Orr – ''George Washington''
** John de Borman – ''Hamlet''
** Lou Bogue – ''Shadow of the Vampire''
* 2001: Peter Deming – ''Mulholland Drive''
** W. Mott Hupfel III – ''The American Astronaut''
** Giles Nuttgens – '' The Deep End''
** Frank G. DeMarco – '' Hedwig and the Angry Inch''
** Wally Pfister – '' Memento''
* 2002: Edward Lachman – '' Far from Heaven''
** Harris Savides – '' Gerry''
** Richard Rutkowski – ''Interview with the Assassin''
** Alex Nepomniaschy – '' Narc''
** Ellen Kuras – '' Personal Velocity: Three Portraits''
* 2003: Declan Quinn – '' In America''
** Harris Savides – ''Elephant''
** M. David Mullen – ''Northfork''
** Mandy Walker – '' Shattered Glass''
** Derek Cianfrance – ''Streets of Legend''
* 2004: Éric Gautier – '' The Motorcycle Diaries''
** Tim Orr – ''Dandelion''
** David Greene – '' Redemption''
** Ryan Little – ''Saints and Soldiers''
** Maryse Alberti – ''We Don't Live Here Anymore''
* 2005: Robert Elswit – ''Good Night, and Good Luck''
** Adam Kimmel – '' Capote''
** John Foster – '' Keane''
** Harris Savides – '' Last Days''
** Chris Menges – ''The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada''
* 2006: Guillermo Navarro – ''Pan's Labyrinth''
** Anthony Dod Mantle – ''Brothers of the Head''
** Arin Crumley – ''Four Eyed Monsters''
** Michael Simmonds – '' Man Push Cart''
** Aaron Platt – ''Wild Tigers I Have Known''
* 2007: Janusz Kamiński – '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly''
** Rodrigo Prieto – ''Lust, Caution''
** W. Mott Hupfel III – '' The Savages''
** Milton Kam – '' Vanaja''
** Mihai Mălaimare Jr. – '' Youth Without Youth''
* 2008: Maryse Alberti – ''The Wrestler''
** Lol Crawley – ''Ballast''
** Michael Simmonds – '' Chop Shop''
** James Laxton – ''Medicine for Melancholy''
** Harris Savides – ''Milk''
* 2009: Roger Deakins – ''A Serious Man''
** Peter Zeitlinger – '' Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans''
** Andrij Parekh – ''Cold Souls''
** Adriano Goldman – '' Sin nombre''
** Anne Misawa – '' Treeless Mountain''

2010s

* 2010: Matthew Libatique – ''Black Swan''
** Adam Kimmel – '' Never Let Me Go''
** Jody Lee Lipes – ''Tiny Furniture''
** Michael McDonough – ''Winter's Bone''
** Harris Savides – '' Greenberg''
* 2011: Guillaume Schiffman – '' The Artist''
** Joel Hodge – '' Bellflower''
** Benjamin Kasulke – ''The Off Hours''
** Darius Khondji – ''Midnight in Paris''
** Jeffrey Waldron – '' The Dynamiter''
* 2012: Ben Richardson – ''Beasts of the Southern Wild''
** Yoni Brook – ''Valley of Saints''
** Lol Crawley – ''Here''
** Roman Vasyanov''
** Robert Yeoman – ''Moonrise Kingdom''
* 2013: Sean Bobbitt – '' 12 Years a Slave''
** Benoît Debie – ''Spring Breakers''
** Bruno Delbonnel – '' Inside Llewyn Davis''
** Frank G. DeMarco – '' All Is Lost''
** Matthias Grunsky – ''Computer Chess''
* 2014: Emmanuel Lubezki – ''Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)''
** Darius Khondji – '' The Immigrant''
** Sean Porter – ''It Felt Like Love''
** Lyle Vincent – '' A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night''
** Bradford Young – ''Selma''
* 2015: Edward Lachman – '' Carol''
** Cary Joji Fukunaga – ''Beasts of No Nation''
** Mike Gioulakis – ''It Follows''
** Reed Morano – '' Meadowland''
** Joshua James Richards – ''Songs My Brothers Taught Me''
* 2016: James Laxton – ''Moonlight''
** Ava Berkofsky – ''Free in Deed''
** Lol Crawley – '' The Childhood of a Leader''
** Zach Kuperstein – ''The Eyes of My Mother''
** Robbie Ryan – ''American Honey''
* 2017: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – ''Call Me by Your Name''
** Thimios Bakatakis – ''The Killing of a Sacred Deer''
** Elisha Christian – ''Columbus''
** Hélène Louvart – ''Beach Rats''
** Joshua James Richards – '' The Rider''
* 2018: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – '' Suspiria''
** Ashley Connor – ''Madeline's Madeline''
** Benjamin Loeb – '' Mandy''
** Zak Mulligan – '' We the Animals''
** Diego Garcia – ''Wildlife''
* 2019: Jarin Blaschke – '' The Lighthouse''
** Todd Banhazl – '' Hustlers''
** Natasha Braier – '' Honey Boy''
** Chananun Chotrungroj – ''The Third Wife''
** Pawel Pogorzelski – ''Midsommar''

2020s

* 2020: Joshua James Richards – ''Nomadland''
** Jay Keitel – ''She Dies Tomorrow''
** Shabier Kirchner – ''Bull''
** Michael Latham – '' The Assistant''
** Hélène Louvart – ''Never Rarely Sometimes Always''
* 2021: Eduard Grau – '' Passing''
** Ante Cheng and Matthew Chuang – ''Blue Bayou''
** Lol Crawley – '' The Humans''
** Tim Curtin – ''A Chiara''
** Ari Wegner – ''Zola''
* 2022: TBA
** Florian Hoffmeister – ''Tár''
** Hélène Louvart – ''Murina''
** Gregory Oke – '' Aftersun''
** Eliot Rockett – ''Pearl''
** Anisia Uzeyman – ''Neptune Frost''

See also

* BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography
* Academy Award for Best Cinematography
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography
* American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases

References

{{Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography

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Awards for best cinematography
Awards established in 1985