MOVIES
Academy Awards
Most Wins for Cinematography
This list features cinematographers that have won the most Best Cinematography awards at the Academy Awards.
RANK | CINEMATOGRAPHER | NOMINATIONS | WINS | FILMS |
1 | Leon Shamroy | 18 | 4 | The Black Swan (1942) Wilson (1944) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Cleopatra (1963) |
2 | Joseph Ruttenberg | 10 | 4 | The Great Waltz (1938) Mrs. Miniver (1942) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Gigi (1958) |
3 | Robert Surtees | 15 | 3 | King Solomon’s Mines (1950) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Ben-Hur (1959) |
4 | Conrad L. Hall | 10 | 3 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) American Beauty (1999) Road to Perdition (2002) |
5 | Robert Richardson | 10 | 3 | JFK (1991) The Aviator (2004) Hugo (2011) |
6 | Emmanuel Lubezki | 8 | 3 | Gravity (2013) Birdman (2014) The Revenant (2015) |
7 | Arthur C. Miller | 7 | 3 | How Green Was My Valley (1941) The Song of Bernadette (1943) Anna and the King of Siam (1946) |
8 | Freddie Young | 5 | 3 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Ryan’s Daughter (1970) |
9 | Vittorio Storaro | 4 | 3 | Apocalypse Now (1979) Reds (1981) The Last Emperor (1987) |
10 | Winton C. Hoch | 3 | 3 | Joan of Arc (1948) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) The Quiet Man (1952) |
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