BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography

Best Cinematography is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize a cinematographer who has delivered outstanding cinematography in a film.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 1963, selected cinematographers have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Cinematography at an annual ceremony.

In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.

Winners and nominees
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Multiple nominations

 * 11 nominations
 * Roger Deakins


 * 10 nominations
 * Douglas Slocombe


 * 8 nominations
 * Geoffrey Unsworth
 * David Watkin


 * 6 nominations
 * Oswald Morris
 * John Seale


 * 5 nominations
 * Janusz Kaminski
 * Chris Menges
 * Philippe Rousselot


 * 4 nominations
 * Christopher Challis
 * Bruno Delbonnel
 * Freddie Francis
 * Hoyte van Hoytema
 * Emmanuel Lubezki
 * Rodrigo Prieto
 * Robert Richardson
 * Vittorio Storaro
 * Freddie Young


 * 3 nominations
 * John Alcott
 * Michael Ballhaus
 * Dion Beebe
 * Denys N. Coop
 * Greig Fraser
 * Conrad Hall
 * Jack Hildyard
 * Andrew Lesnie
 * Seamus McGarvey
 * Claudio Miranda
 * Linus Sandgren
 * Gerry Turpin
 * Billy Williams
 * Gordon Willis
 * Łukasz Żal
 * Vilmos Zsigmond


 * 2 nominations
 * Peter Biziou
 * Sean Bobbitt
 * Russell Boyd
 * Danny Cohen
 * Dean Cundey
 * Allen Daviau
 * Otto Heller
 * Kenneth Higgins
 * Arthur Ibbetson
 * Dan Laustsen
 * Matthew Libatique
 * Donald McAlpine
 * Ted Moore
 * Sven Nykvist
 * Phedon Papamichael
 * Wally Pfister
 * Roger Pratt
 * Nicolas Roeg
 * Giuseppe Rotunno
 * Robbie Ryan
 * Takao Saitô
 * Eduardo Serra
 * Dante Spinotti
 * Gilbert Taylor
 * Masaharu Ueda