| Year | Colour/Black-and-White | Cinematographer | Movie | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Colour | Russell Carpenter | Titanic | 76%
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| 2014 | Colour | Emmanuel Lubezki | Birdman | 74%
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| 2015 | Colour | Emmanuel Lubezki | The Revenant | 73%
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| 2013 | Colour | Emmanuel Lubezki | Gravity | 71%
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| 1999 | Colour | Conrad L. Hall | American Beauty | 66%
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| 2001 | Colour | Andrew Lesnie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | 65%
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| 2016 | Colour | Linus Sandgren | La La Land | 60%
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| 1993 | Colour | Janusz Kaminski | Schindler's List | 60%
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| 1998 | Colour | Janusz Kaminski | Saving Private Ryan | 58%
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| 2009 | Colour | Mauro Fiore | Avatar | 56%
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| 2012 | Colour | Claudio Miranda | Life of Pi | 56%
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| 2007 | Colour | Robert Elswit | There Will Be Blood | 55%
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| Colour | Robert Surtees | Ben-Hur | 53%
| |
| 1995 | Colour | John Toll | Braveheart | 52%
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| 1990 | Colour | Dean Semler | Dances with Wolves | 52%
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| Colour | Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan | Gone With the Wind | 52%
| |
| 2008 | Colour | Anthony Dod Mantle | Slumdog Millionaire | 47%
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| 1996 | Colour | John Seale | The English Patient | 45%
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| Colour | Daniel L. Fapp | West Side Story | 44%
| |
| 2010 | Colour | Wally Pfister | Inception | 42%
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| 1985 | Colour | David Watkin | Out of Africa | 42%
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| 2002 | Colour | Conrad L. Hall | Road to Perdition | 42%
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| 1979 | Colour | Vittorio Storaro | Apocalypse Now | 39%
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| 1982 | Colour | Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor | Gandhi | 39%
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| Colour | Freddie Young | Lawrence of Arabia | 39%
| |
| 2006 | Colour | Guillermo Navarro | Pan's Labyrinth | 39%
|
| Colour | Joseph Ruttenberg | Gigi | 35%
| |
| 2011 | Colour | Robert Richardson | Hugo | 35%
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| 1975 | Colour | John Alcott | Barry Lyndon | 32%
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| 1987 | Colour | Vittorio Storaro | The Last Emperor | 32%
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| 1972 | Colour | Geoffrey Unsworth | Cabaret | 31%
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| 1983 | Colour | Sven Nykvist | Fanny and Alexander | 31%
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| 1954 | Black-and-White | Boris Kaufman | On the Waterfront | 31%
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| 1957 | Colour | Jack Hildyard | The Bridge on the River Kwai | 29%
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| 2000 | Colour | Peter Pau | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 27%
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| 1991 | Colour | Robert Richardson | JFK | 26%
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| 2004 | Colour | Robert Richardson | The Aviator | 26%
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| 1941 | Black-and-White | Arthur C. Miller | How Green Was My Valley | 24%
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| 2003 | Colour | Russell Boyd | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 24%
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| Colour | Harry Stradling | My Fair Lady | 24%
| |
| 1940 | Black-and-White | George Barnes | Rebecca | 24%
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| Colour | Ted Moore | A Man for All Seasons | 23%
| |
| Colour | Alfred Gilks and John Alton | An American in Paris | 23%
| |
| 1967 | Colour | Burnett Guffey | Bonnie and Clyde | 23%
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| 1978 | Colour | Nestor Almendros | Days of Heaven | 23%
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| Colour | Freddie Young | Doctor Zhivago | 23%
| |
| 1927 / 1928 | Black-and-White | Charles Rosher and Karl Struss | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 23%
|
| Colour | Lionel Lindon | Around the World in 80 Days | 21%
| |
| 1973 | Colour | Sven Nykvist | Cries and Whispers | 21%
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| 2005 | Colour | Dion Beebe | Memoirs of a Geisha | 21%
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| 1981 | Colour | Vittorio Storaro | Reds | 21%
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| 1966 | Black-and-White | Haskell Wexler | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | 21%
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| 1977 | Colour | Vilmos Zsigmond | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 19%
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| 1953 | Black-and-White | Burnett Guffey | From Here to Eternity | 19%
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| 1994 | Colour | John Toll | Legends of the Fall | 19%
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| Colour | Russell Metty | Spartacus | 19%
| |
| 1969 | Colour | Conrad L. Hall | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 18%
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| 1992 | Colour | Philippe Rousselot | A River Runs Through It | 16%
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| Colour | Jack Cardiff | Black Narcissus | 16%
| |
| 1963 | Black-and-White | James Wong Howe | Hud | 16%
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| 1980 | Colour | Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet | Tess | 16%
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| 1986 | Colour | Chris Menges | The Mission | 16%
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| 1976 | Colour | Haskell Wexler | Bound for Glory | 15%
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| 1942 | Black-and-White | Joseph Ruttenberg | Mrs. Miniver | 15%
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| 1968 | Colour | Pasqualino De Santis | Romeo and Juliet | 15%
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| 1970 | Colour | Freddie Young | Ryan's Daughter | 15%
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| 1984 | Colour | Chris Menges | The Killing Fields | 15%
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| 1974 | Colour | Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. Biroc | The Towering Inferno | 15%
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| Colour | Robert Burks | To Catch a Thief | 15%
| |
| Colour | Leon Shamroy | Cleopatra | 13%
| |
| 1934 | Black-and-White | Victor Milner | Cleopatra | 13%
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| 1931 / 1932 | Black-and-White | Lee Garmes | Shanghai Express | 13%
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| Colour | Leon Shamroy | The Black Swan | 13%
| |
| Colour | Winton Hoch and Archie Stout | The Quiet Man | 13%
| |
| 1989 | Colour | Freddie Francis | Glory | 11%
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| 1958 | Black-and-White | Sam Leavitt | The Defiant Ones | 11%
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| 1943 | Black-and-White | Arthur C. Miller | The Song of Bernadette | 11%
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| 1971 | Colour | Oswald Morris | Fiddler on the Roof | 10%
|
| Colour | Leon Shamroy | Leave Her to Heaven | 10%
| |
| Colour | Loyal Griggs | Shane | 10%
| |
| 1965 | Black-and-White | Ernest Laszlo | Ship of Fools | 10%
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| 1930 / 1931 | Black-and-White | Floyd Crosby | Tabu: A Story of the South Seas | 10%
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| 1959 | Black-and-White | William C. Mellor | The Diary of Anne Frank | 10%
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| 1937 | Black-and-White | Karl Freund | The Good Earth | 10%
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| 1961 | Black-and-White | Eugen Schufftan | The Hustler | 10%
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| 1955 | Black-and-White | James Wong Howe | The Rose Tattoo | 10%
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| 1929 / 1930 | Black-and-White | Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer | With Byrd at the South Pole | 10%
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| 1939 | Black-and-White | Gregg Toland | Wuthering Heights | 10%
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| 1964 | Black-and-White | Walter Lassally | Zorba the Greek | 10%
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| 1951 | Black-and-White | William C. Mellor | A Place in the Sun | 8%
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| Colour | Ernest Palmer and Ray Rennahan | Blood and Sand | 8%
| |
| Colour | Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall, and Winton Hoch | Joan of Arc | 8%
| |
| 1944 | Black-and-White | Joseph LaShelle | Laura | 8%
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| 1988 | Colour | Peter Biziou | Mississippi Burning | 8%
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| 1956 | Black-and-White | Joseph Ruttenberg | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 8%
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| 1960 | Black-and-White | Freddie Francis | Sons and Lovers | 8%
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| 1962 | Black-and-White | Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz | The Longest Day | 8%
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| 1950 | Black-and-White | Robert Krasker | The Third Man | 8%
|
| Colour | Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, and Arthur E. Arling | The Yearling | 8%
| |
| 1932 / 1933 | Black-and-White | Charles Lang | A Farewell to Arms | 6%
|
| 1935 | Black-and-White | Hal Mohr | A Midsummer Night's Dream | 6%
|
| 1946 | Black-and-White | Arthur C. Miller | Anna and the King of Siam | 6%
|
| 1936 | Black-and-White | Tony Gaudio | Anthony Adverse | 6%
|
| Colour | W. Howard Greene | A Star is Born | 6%
| |
| Colour | Hal Mohr and W. Howard Greene | Phantom of the Opera | 6%
| |
| Colour | Winton Hoch | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 6%
| |
| Colour | Georges Périnal | The Thief of Baghdad | 6%
| |
| Colour | Milton R. Krasner | Three Coins in the Fountain | 6%
| |
| Colour | Leon Shamroy | Wilson | 6%
| |
| 1947 | Black-and-White | Guy Green | Great Expectations | 5%
|
| Colour | Robert Surtees | King Solomon's Mines | 5%
| |
| Colour | Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey | Sweethearts | 5%
| |
| Colour | W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson | The Garden of Allah | 5%
| |
| 1938 | Black-and-White | Joseph Ruttenberg | The Great Waltz | 5%
|
| 1945 | Black-and-White | Harry Stradling | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 5%
|
| 1949 | Black-and-White | Paul C. Vogel | Battleground | 3%
|
| 1952 | Black-and-White | Robert Surtees | The Bad and the Beautiful | 3%
|
| 1948 | Black-and-White | William H. Daniels | The Naked City | 3%
|
| 1928 / 1929 | Black-and-White | Clyde De Vinna | White Shadows in the South Seas | 3%
|