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.

1990s

• 1990 - Dean Semler, Dances with Wolves
• Allen Daviau, Avalon
• Philippe Rousselot, Henry & June
• Vittorio Storaro, Dick Tracy
• Gordon Willis, The Godfather Part III
• 1991 - Robert Richardson, JFK
• Adrian Biddle, Thelma & Louise
• Allen Daviau, Bugsy
• Stephen Goldblatt, The Prince of Tides
• Adam Greenberg, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 1992 - Philippe Rousselot, A River Runs Through It
• Stephen H. Burum, Hoffa
• Robert Fraisse, The Lover
• Jack N. Green, Unforgiven
• Tony Pierce-Roberts, Howards End
• 1993 - Janusz Kaminski, Schindler's List
• Gu Changwei, Farewell My Concubine
• Michael Chapman, The Fugitive
• Stuart Dryburgh, The Piano
• Conrad L. Hall, Searching for Bobby Fischer
• 1994 - John Toll, Legends of the Fall
• Don Burgess, Forrest Gump
• Roger Deakins, The Shawshank Redemption
• Owen Roizman, Wyatt Earp
• Piotr Sobocinski, Red
• 1995 - John Toll, Braveheart
• Michael Coulter, Sense and Sensibility
• Stephen Goldblatt, Batman Forever
• Emmanuel Lubezki, A Little Princess
• Lu Yue, Shanghai Triad
• 1996 - John Seale, The English Patient
• Darius Khondji, Evita
• Roger Deakins, Fargo
• Caleb Deschanel, Fly Away Home
• Chris Menges, Michael Collins
• 1997 - Russell Carpenter, Titanic
• Janusz Kaminski, Amistad
• Roger Deakins, Kundun
• Dante Spinotti, L.A. Confidential
• Eduardo Serra, The Wings of the Dove
• 1998 - Janusz Kaminski, Saving Private Ryan
• Conrad L. Hall, A Civil Action
• Remi Adefarasin, Elizabeth
• Richard Greatrex, Shakespeare in Love
• John Toll, The Thin Red Line
• 1999 - Conrad Hall, American Beauty
• Roger Pratt, The End of the Affair
• Dante Spinotti, The Insider
• Emmanuel Lubezki, Sleepy Hollow
• Robert Richardson, Snow Falling on Cedars