| Tahun |
Pemenang |
Sinematografer |
| 1980 | Tess | Ghislain Cloquet dan Geoffrey Unsworth |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | David Watkin |
| 1982 | Sophie's Choice | Néstor Almendros |
| 1983 | Zelig | Gordon Willis |
| 1984 | The Killing Fields | Chris Menges |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | David Watkin |
| 1986 | A Room with a View | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1988 | Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) | Henri Alekan |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Ernest R. Dickerson |
| 1990 | The Sheltering Sky | Vittorio Storaro |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Roger Deakins |
| 1992 | The Player | Jean Lépin |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Janusz Kamiński |
| 1994 | Ed Wood | Stefan Czapsky |
| 1995 | Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao) | Lü Yue |
| 1996 | Breaking the Waves | Robby Müller |
| Dead Man |
| 1997 | Kundun | Roger Deakins |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | John Toll |
| 1999 | The Straight Story | Freddie Francis |
| 2000 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) | Peter Pau |
| 2001 | In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa) | Christopher Doyle dan Pin Bing Lee |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven | Edward Lachman |
| 2003 | Elephant | Harris Savides |
| Gerry |
| 2004 | Hero (Ying xiong) | Christopher Doyle |
| 2005 | 2046 | Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung |
| 2006 | Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) | Guillermo Navarro |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Robert Elswit |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Anthony Dod Mantle |
| 2009 | The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) | Christian Berger |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Matthew Libatique |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Emmanuel Lubezki |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Greig Fraser |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Bruno Delbonnel |
| 2014 | The Immigrant | Darius Khondji |
| 2015 | Carol | Edward Lachman |
| 2016 | Moonlight | James Laxton |
| 2017 | Mudbound | Rachel Morrison |