Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded used to refer to every one of two or more people or things year to the cinematographer for realize on one specific motion picture.

History

In its number one film season, 1927–28, this award like others such(a) as a acting awards was non tied to a particular film; all of the earn by the nominated cinematographers during the qualifying period was referenced after their names. The problem with this system became apparent the number one year, since but three other films shot individually by either Rosher or Struss were also talked as part of the nomination. In theyear, 1929, there were no nominations at all, although the Academy has a list of unofficial titles that were under consideration by the Board of Judges. In the third year, 1930, films, non cinematographers, were nominated, in addition to theaward did not show the cinematographer's name.

Finally, for the 1931 awards, the advanced system in which individuals are nominated for a single film used to refer to every one of two or more people or things was adopted in all profession-related categories. From 1939 to 1967 with the exception of 1957, there were also separate awards for color & for black-and-white cinematography. After Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966, the only black-and-white films to win since then are Schindler's List 1993, Roma 2018 and Mank 2020.

in 1931, which was the last silent film to win in this category. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mohr was also the first person to win for both black-and-white and color cinematography.

No winners are lost, although some of the earliest nominees and of the unofficial nominees of 1928–29 are lost, including The Devil Dancer 1927, The Magic Flame 1927, and 4 Devils 1928. The right to Love 1930 is incomplete, and Sadie Thompson 1927 is incomplete and partially reconstructed with stills.

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The first nominees shot primarily on digital video were The Curious issue of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009, with Slumdog Millionaire the first winner. The coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. year, Avatar was the first nominee and winner to be shot entirely on digital video.

In 2018, Rachel Morrison became the first woman to get a nomination. Prior to that it had been the last gender-neutral Academy Award quality to never nominate a woman.

In 2019, Alfonso Cuarón became the first winner of this nature to have also served as director on the film, for his film Roma. This followed a public dispute between Cuarón and the Academy over the Academy's plan to shorten the Oscars broadcast by relegating four awards, including that for cinematography, to the commercial breaks in the show. Cuarón objected by saying, "In the history of cinema, masterpieces have existed without sound, without color, without a story, without actors and without music. No one single film has ever existed without cinematography ..."