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.

1950s

• 1950 - Robert Krasker, The Third Man (B&W)
• - Robert Surtees, King Solomon's Mines (Color)
• 1951 - William C. Mellor, A Place in the Sun (B&W)
• - Alfred Gilks and John Alton, An American in Paris (Color)
• 1952 - Robert Surtees, The Bad and the Beautiful (B&W)
• - Winton Hoch and Archie Stout, The Quiet Man (Color)
• 1953 - Burnett Guffey, From Here to Eternity (B&W)
• - Loyal Griggs, Shane (Color)
• 1954 - Boris Kaufman, On the Waterfront (B&W)
• - Milton R. Krasner, Three Coins in the Fountain (Color)
• 1955 - James Wong Howe, The Rose Tattoo (B&W)
• - Robert Burks, To Catch a Thief (Color)
• 1956 - Joseph Ruttenberg, Somebody Up There Likes Me (B&W)
• - Lionel Lindon, Around the World in Eighty Days (Color)

For 1957, there was a single award:

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• 1957 - Jack Hildyard, The Bridge on the River Kwai

From 1958, there were separate awards for Black and White and for Color:

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• 1958 - Sam Leavitt, The Defiant Ones (B&W)
• - Joseph Ruttenberg, Gigi (Color)
• 1959 - William C. Mellor, The Diary of Anne Frank (B&W)
• - Robert Surtees, Ben-Hur (Color)