Chlotrudis Award for Best Cinematography

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Cinematography is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the person or persons whose winning work is voted by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
1997	L.A. Confidential	Dante Spinotti
	FairyTale: A True Story	Michael Coulter
	The Ice Storm	Frederick Elmes
	Lilies	Daniel Jobin
	The Myth of Fingerprints	Stephen Kazmierski
	The Winter Guest	Seamus McGarvey
1998	Pi	Matthew Libatique
	Babe: Pig in the City	Andrew Lesnie
	Elizabeth	Remi Adefarasin
	The Hanging Garden	Daniel Jobin
	Pleasantville	John Lindley
	Saving Private Ryan	Janusz Kamiński
	The Thin Red Line	John Toll
1999	Run Lola Run	Frank Griebe
	American Beauty	Conrad L. Hall
	Besieged	Fabio Cianchetti
	Lovers of the Arctic Circle	Gonzalo F. Berridi
	Magnolia	Robert Elswit
	The Matrix	Bill Pope
	Sleepy Hollow	Emmanuel Lubezki
	The Straight Story	Freddie Francis
	Three Kings	Newton Thomas Sigel

2000s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2000	Beau Travail	Agnès Godard
	The Color of Paradise	Hashem Attar and Mohammad Davudi
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Peter Pau
	George Washington	Tim Orr
	Girl on the Bridge	Jean-Marie Dreujou
	Requiem for a Dream	Matthew Libatique
	Titus	Luciano Tovoli
2001	In the Mood for Love	Christopher Doyle and Mark Li Ping-bin
	Amélie	Bruno Delbonnel
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Roger Deakins
	Moulin Rouge!	Donald McAlpine
	The Vertical Ray of the Sun	Mark Li Ping-bin
	The Widow of Saint-Pierre	Eduardo Serra
2002	Far from Heaven	Edward Lachman
	Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner	Norman Cohn
	Rain	John Toon
	Songs from the Second Floor	István Borbás, Jesper Klevenas and Robert Komarek
	Tuvalu	Emil Hristow
	What Time Is It There?	Benoît Delhomme
	Y Tu Mamá También	Emmanuel Lubezki
2003	Friday Night	Agnès Godard
	21 Grams	Rodrigo Prieto
	28 Days Later	Anthony Dod Mantle
	All the Real Girls	Tim Orr
	Lost in Translation	Lance Acord
	Northfork	M. David Mullen
	Russian Ark	Tilman Büttner
	Winged Migration	Olli Barbé et al.
2004	The Return	Mikhail Krichman
	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	Baek Dong-hyeon
	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Eduardo Serra
	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Liao Pen-jung
	House of Flying Daggers	Zhao Xiaoding
	Last Life in the Universe	Christopher Doyle

In 2005, the award was changed to Best Visual Design, although cinematography was considered part of that.

Year	Film
2005	2046
	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Memories of Murder
	Tony Takitani
	Where the Truth Lies
2006	The Science of Sleep
	Brothers of the Head
	Inland Empire
	Iron Island
	The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
	Water
2007	Pan's Labyrinth
	Paprika
	Brand Upon the Brain!
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
	Persepolis
	Tears of the Black Tiger

In 2008, the award was changed back to Best Cinematography.

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2008	Let the Right One In	Hoyte van Hoytema
	Encounters at the End of the World	Peter Zeitlinger
	The Fall	Colin Watkinson
	My Winnipeg	Jody Shapiro
	Slumdog Millionaire	Anthony Dod Mantle
2009	The White Ribbon	Christian Berger
	35 Shots of Rum	Agnès Godard
	Antichrist	Anthony Dod Mantle
	O'Horten	John Christian Rosenlund
	Silent Light	Alexis Zabe

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Cinematographer(s)
2010	Winter's Bone	Michael McDonough
	Chloe	Paul Sarossy
	Get Low	David Boyd
	Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno	Jérôme Krumenacker and Irina Lubtchansky
	I Am Love	Yorick Le Saux
	Undertow	Mauricio Vidal

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB