Top 10 Cinematographers

Michael Ballhaus

Films: The Marriage of Maria Braun, After Hours, The Color of Money, Broadcast News, Last Temptation of Christ, GoodFellas, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Quiz Show, Sleepers, Gangs of New York, The Departed

Roger Deakins

Homicide, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy,  The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Jarhead, No Country For Old Men, A Serious Man, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Revolutionary Road, The Reader, Skyfall, Prisoners, Sicario

Frederick Elmes

Films: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Night On Earth, The Ice Storm, Broken Flowers, Synecdoche New York

Robert Elswit

Films: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Redbelt

Janusz Kaminski

Films: Schindler’s List, Jerry Maguire, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, Munich, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Lincoln

Emmanuel Lubezki

Films: Sleepy Hollow, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Ali, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The New World, Children of Men, The Tree of Life, Gravity, Birdman

Rodrigo Prieto

Films: Amores Perros, 8 Mile, 25^th Hour, Frida, 21 Grams, Brokeback Mountain, Babel, Biutiful, Argo, The Wolf of Wall Street

Robert Richardson

Films: Platoon, Wall Street, Born On the Fourth of July, JFK, A Few Good Men, Natural Born Killers, Casino, Nixon, Wag the Dog, Bringing Out the Dead, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, The Aviator, Inglourious Basterds, Shutter Island, Django Unchained

Gordon Willis

Films: Klute, The Godfather I & II, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Zelig

Vilmos Zsigmond

Films: McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Images, The Long Goodbye, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, Blow Out, Melinda and Melinda

THE BEST OF THE REST

John Alcott

Films: A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining

Sean Bobbitt
Films: Hunger, Shame, The Place Beyond the Pines, 12 Years A Slave

Robert Burks
Films: Strangers On A Train, I Confess, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, North By Northwest, The Birds, Marnie

Stanley Cortez
Films: The Magnificent Ambersons, The Night of the Hunter, The Three Faces of Eve, Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss

Dean Cundey

Films: The Thing, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Apollo 13

Caleb Deschanel

Films: Being There, The Right Stuff, The Natural, Killer Joe

Tak Fujimoto

Films: Badlands, Melvin and Howard, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, The Sixth Sense, Signs

Conrad Hall
Films: In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man, Love Affair, A Civil Action, Road to Perdition

James Wong Howe

Films: The Thin Man, Kings Row, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Body and Soul, Baron of Arizona, Picnic, The Sweet Smell of Success, Hud, Seconds

Slawomir Idzik

Films: A Short Film About Killing, Double Life of Veronique, Three Colors: Blue

Robert Krasker

Films: Brief Encounter, Odd Man Out, The Third Man, Billy Budd

Charles Lang

Films: A Farewell to Arms, The Uninvited, A Foreign Affair, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Ace In the Hole, Sudden Fear, The Big Heat, Sabrina, Separate Tables, Some Like It Hot, The Magnificent Seven, One-Eyed Jacks, Charade, Wait Until Dark, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Robby Muller

Films: Paris Texas, Down By Law, Dead Man

Guillermo Navarro

Films: Pan’s Labyrinth, Hard Candy, Hannibal episodes

Wally Pfister

Films: Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, Moneyball, The Dark Knight Rises

Vittorio Storaro

Films: Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The Conformist, Last Tango In Paris, Apocalypse Now, Reds, The Last Emperor, Dick Tracy, Bulworth

Harris Savides

Films: The Game, The Hire: The Follow, Gerry, Elephant, Birth, Zodiac, American Gangster, Milk

Michael Sloavis

Films: various Breaking Bad episodes

Dante Spinotti

Films: Manhunter, Heat, L.A. Confidential, The Insider, Wonder Boys, Public Enemies