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.

1980s

• 1980 - Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislaine Cloquet, Tess
• Nestor Almendros, The Blue Lagoon
• Ralf D. Bode, Coal Miner's Daughter
• Michael Chapman, Raging Bull
• James Crabe, The Formula
• 1981 - Vittorio Storaro, Reds
• Miroslav Ondricek, Ragtime
• Douglas Slocombe, Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Alex Thomson, Excalibur
• Billy Williams, On Golden Pond
• 1982 - Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor, Gandhi
• Nestor Almendros, Sophie's Choice
• Allen Daviau, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Owen Roizman, Tootsie
• Jost Vacano, Das Boot
• 1983 - Sven Nykvist, Fanny and Alexander
• Caleb Deschanel, The Right Stuff
• William A. Fraker, WarGames
• Don Peterman, Flashdance
• Gordon Willis, Zelig
• 1984 - Chris Menges, The Killing Fields
• Ernest Day, A Passage to India
• Caleb Deschanel, The Natural
• Miroslav Ondricek, Amadeus
• Vilmos Zsigmond, The River
• 1985 - David Watkin, Out of Africa
• Allen Daviau, The Color Purple
• William A. Fraker, Murphy's Romance
• Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai, Ran
• John Seale, Witness
• 1986 - Chris Menges, The Mission
• Jordan Cronenweth, Peggy Sue Got Married
• Don Peterman, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Tony Pierce-Roberts, A Room With a View
• Robert Richardson, Platoon
• 1987 - Vittorio Storaro , The Last Emperor
• Michael Ballhaus, Broadcast News
• Allen Daviau, Empire of the Sun
• Philippe Rousselot, Hope and Glory
• Haskell Wexler, Matewan
• 1988 - Peter Biziou, Mississippi Burning
• Dean Cundey, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Conrad L. Hall, Tequila Sunrise
• Sven Nykvist, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• John Seale, Rain Man
• 1989 - Freddie Francis, Glory
• Michael Ballhaus, The Fabulous Baker Boys
• Robert Richardson, Born on the Fourth of July
• Mikael Salomon, The Abyss
• Haskell Wexler, Blaze