Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture.

1930s

• 1930 - Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der, With Byrd at the South Pole
• 1931 - Floyd Crosby, '
• 1932 - Lee Garmes Shanghai Express
• 1933 - Charles Bryant Lang. Jr, A Farewell to Arms
• 1934 - Victor Milner, Cleopatra
• 1935 - Hal Mohr, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1936 - Gaetano Gaudio, Anthony Adverse
• 1937 - Karl Freund, The Good Earth
• 1938 - Joseph Ruttenberg, The Great Waltz

From 1939, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

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• 1939 - Gregg Toland, Wuthering Heights (B&W)
• - Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan, Gone with the Wind (Color)