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Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)

Cinematography · 27 ceremonies · 1939-1966

1966 (39TH)
Poster for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Haskell Wexler
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1965 (38TH)
Poster for Ship of Fools
Ernest Laszlo
Ship of Fools
1964 (37TH)
Poster for Zorba the Greek
Walter Lassally
Zorba the Greek
1963 (36TH)
Poster for Hud
James Wong Howe
Hud
1962 (35TH)
Poster for The Longest Day
Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz
The Longest Day
1966 (39th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Haskell Wexler
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Joseph LaShelle
The Fortune Cookie
Ken Higgins
Georgy Girl
Marcel Grignon
Is Paris Burning?
James Wong Howe
Seconds
1965 (38th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Ernest Laszlo
Ship of Fools
Loyal Griggs
In Harm's Way
Burnett Guffey
King Rat
Conrad Hall
Morituri
Robert Burks
A Patch of Blue
1964 (37th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Walter Lassally
Zorba the Greek
Philip H. Lathrop
The Americanization of Emily
Milton Krasner
Fate Is the Hunter
Joseph Biroc
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Gabriel Figueroa
The Night of the Iguana
1963 (36th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
James Wong Howe
Hud
George Folsey
The Balcony
Lucien Ballard
The Caretakers
Ernest Haller
Lilies of the Field
Milton Krasner
Love with the Proper Stranger
1962 (35th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz
The Longest Day 
Burnett Guffey
Birdman of Alcatraz
Russell Harlan
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ted McCord
Two for the Seesaw
Ernest Haller
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1961 (34th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Eugen Shuftan
The Hustler
Edward Colman
The Absent Minded Professor
Franz F. Planer
The Children's Hour
Ernest Laszlo
Judgment at Nuremberg
Daniel L. Fapp
One, Two, Three
1960 (33rd)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Freddie Francis
Sons and Lovers
Joseph LaShelle
The Apartment
Charles B. Lang Jr.
The Facts of Life
Ernest Laszlo
Inherit the Wind
John L. Russell
Psycho
1959 (32nd)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
William C. Mellor
The Diary of Anne Frank
Sam Leavitt
Anatomy of a Murder
Joseph LaShelle
Career
Charles Lang Jr.
Some Like It Hot
Harry Stradling Sr.
The Young Philadelphians
1958 (31st)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Sam Leavitt
The Defiant Ones
Daniel L. Fapp
Desire under the Elms
Lionel Lindon
I Want to Live!
Charles Lang Jr.
Separate Tables
Joe MacDonald
The Young Lions
1956 (29th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Joseph Ruttenberg
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Boris Kaufman
Baby Doll
Hal Rosson
The Bad Seed
Burnett Guffey
The Harder They Fall
Walter Strenge
Stagecoach to Fury
1955 (28th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
James Wong Howe
The Rose Tattoo
Russell Harlan
Blackboard Jungle
Arthur E. Arling
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Joseph LaShelle
Marty
Charles Lang
Queen Bee
1954 (27th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Boris Kaufman
On the Waterfront
John F. Warren
The Country Girl
George Folsey
Executive Suite
John Seitz
Rogue Cop
Charles Lang Jr.
Sabrina
1953 (26th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Burnett Guffey
From Here to Eternity
Hal Mohr
The Four Poster
Joseph Ruttenberg
Julius Caesar
Joseph C. Brun
Martin Luther
Frank Planer, Henri Alekan
Roman Holiday
1952 (25th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Robert Surtees
The Bad and the Beautiful
Russell Harlan
The Big Sky
Joseph LaShelle
My Cousin Rachel
Virgil E. Miller
Navajo
Charles B. Lang Jr.
Sudden Fear
1951 (24th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
William C. Mellor
A Place in the Sun
Frank Planer
Death of a Salesman
Norbert Brodine
The Frogmen
Robert Burks
Strangers on a Train
Harry Stradling
A Streetcar Named Desire
1950 (23rd)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Robert Krasker
The Third Man
Milton Krasner
All about Eve
Harold Rosson
The Asphalt Jungle
Victor Milner
The Furies
John F. Seitz
Sunset Blvd.
1949 (22nd)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Paul C. Vogel
Battleground
Frank Planer
Champion
Joseph LaShelle
Come to the Stable
Leo Tover
The Heiress
Leon Shamroy
Prince of Foxes
1948 (21st)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
William Daniels
The Naked City
Charles B. Lang Jr.
A Foreign Affair
Nicholas Musuraca
I Remember Mama
Ted McCord
Johnny Belinda
Joseph August
Portrait of Jennie
1947 (20th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Guy Green
Great Expectations
Charles Lang Jr.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
George Folsey
Green Dolphin Street
1946 (19th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Arthur Miller
Anna and the King of Siam
George Folsey
The Green Years
1945 (18th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Harry Stradling
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Miller
The Keys of the Kingdom
John F. Seitz
The Lost Weekend
Ernest Haller
Mildred Pierce
George Barnes
Spellbound
1944 (17th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Joseph LaShelle
Laura
John Seitz
Double Indemnity
Sidney Wagner
Dragon Seed
Joseph Ruttenberg
Gaslight
Lionel Lindon
Going My Way
Glen MacWilliams
Lifeboat
Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes
Since You Went Away
Robert Surtees, Harold Rosson
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
Charles Lang
The Uninvited
George Folsey
The White Cliffs of Dover
1943 (16th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Arthur Miller
The Song of Bernadette
James Wong Howe, Elmer Dyer, Charles Marshall
Air Force
Arthur Edeson
Casablanca
Tony Gaudio
Corvette K-225
John Seitz
Five Graves to Cairo
Harry Stradling
The Human Comedy
Joseph Ruttenberg
Madame Curie
James Wong Howe
The North Star
Rudolph Maté
Sahara
Charles Lang
So Proudly We Hail!
1942 (15th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Joseph Ruttenberg
Mrs. Miniver
James Wong Howe
Kings Row
Stanley Cortez
The Magnificent Ambersons
Charles Clarke
Moontide
Edward Cronjager
The Pied Piper
Rudolph Maté
The Pride of the Yankees
John Mescall
Take a Letter, Darling
Ted Tetzlaff
The Talk of the Town
Leon Shamroy
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Arthur Miller
This above All
1941 (14th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Arthur Miller
How Green Was My Valley
Karl Freund
The Chocolate Soldier
Gregg Toland
Citizen Kane
Joseph Ruttenberg
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Joseph Walker
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Leo Tover
Hold Back the Dawn
Sol Polito
Sergeant York
Edward Cronjager
Sun Valley Serenade
Charles Lang
Sundown
Rudolph Maté
That Hamilton Woman
1940 (13th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
George Barnes
Rebecca
James Wong Howe
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Ernest Haller
All This, and Heaven Too
Charles B. Lang Jr.
Arise, My Love
Harold Rosson
Boom Town
Rudolph Maté
Foreign Correspondent
Gaetano Gaudio
The Letter
Gregg Toland
The Long Voyage Home
Joseph Valentine
Spring Parade
Joseph Ruttenberg
Waterloo Bridge
1939 (12th)
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
Gregg Toland
Wuthering Heights
Bert Glennon
Stagecoach
#
1Leon Shamroy20184
2Charles B. Lang Jr.120181
3Robert Surtees21163
4Harry Stradling41142
5George Folsey50130
6Joseph Ruttenberg72104
7Conrad Hall10103
8James Wong Howe72102
9Joseph LaShelle7191
10Victor Milner1081
11Ernest Laszlo3181
12Milton Krasner3071
13Ernest Haller4071
14Daniel L. Fapp2071
15Edward Cronjager2070
16Arthur Miller5363
17John F. Seitz5060
18Russell Harlan3060
19Haskell Wexler1152
20Burnett Guffey4152
21Gregg Toland3151
22Gaetano Gaudio2051
23George Barnes2151
24Frank Planer4050
25Rudolph Maté4050
26William C. Mellor2242
27Joseph Valentine1041
28William Daniels1141
29Lee Garmes1041
30Robert Burks2041
31Loyal Griggs1041
32Hal Rosson4040
33Charles Clarke1040
34Lionel Lindon2031
35Karl Freund1031
36Sam Leavitt2131
37Sol Polito1030
38Joe MacDonald1030
39Joseph Walker1030
40Ted McCord2030
41Hal Mohr1022
42Freddie Francis1122
43Paul C. Vogel1121
44Boris Kaufman2121
45Joseph Biroc1021
46Arthur E. Arling1021
47Leo Tover2020
48Stanley Cortez2020
49Sidney Wagner1020
50Bert Glennon1020
51Norbert Brodine1020
52Edward Colman1020
53Philip H. Lathrop1020
54Arthur Edeson1020
55Jean Bourgoin1111
56Walter Wottitz1111
57Eugen Shuftan1111
58Walter Lassally1111
59Guy Green1111
60Robert Krasker1111
61Elmer Dyer1010
62Charles Marshall1010
63John L. Russell1010
64Marcel Grignon1010
65Lucien Ballard1010
66Ken Higgins1010
67Ted Tetzlaff1010
68Gabriel Figueroa1010
69John Mescall1010
70Virgil E. Miller1010
71Joseph C. Brun1010
72Henri Alekan1010
73Joseph August1010
74John F. Warren1010
75Walter Strenge1010
76Nicholas Musuraca1010
77Glen MacWilliams1010
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Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
1958-1966
Best Cinematography (Black-and-White)
1939-1956