Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.

Wins and nominations

1986
*Toyomichi Kurita for "Trouble In Mind" (winner)
*Michael Ballhaus for "After Hours"
*Barry Sonnenfeld for "Blood Simple"
*Michael Chin for "Dim Sum"1987
*Bob Richardson for "Platoon" (winner)
*Frederick Elmes for "Blue Velvet"
*Robby Müller for "Down by Law"
*Bob Richardson" for "Salvador"
*Ed Lachman for "True Stories"1988
*Haskell Wexler for "Matewan" (winner)
*Robby Müller for "Barfly"
*Amir Mokri for "Slamdance"
*Fred Murphy for "The Dead"
*John Bailey for "Tough Guys Don't Dance"1989
*Sven Nykvist for "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (winner)
*Gregory Cummins for "Patti Rocks"
*Tom Richmond for "Stand and Deliver"
*Robert Richardson for "Talk Radio"
*Toyomichi Kurita for "The Moderns"1990
*Robert Yeoman for "Drugstore Cowboy" (winner)
*Oliver Stapleton for "Earth Girls Are Easy"
*Robby Müller for "Mystery Train"
*Toyomichi Kurita for "Powwow Highway"
*Robert Tregenza for "Talking To Strangers"1991
*Frederick Elmes for "Wild at Heart" (winner)
*Peter Deming for "House Party"
*Bojan Bazelli for "King of New York"
*Amir Mokri for "Life is Cheap, But Toilet Paper is Expensive"
*Robert Young for "The Plot Against Harry"1992
*Walt Lloyd for "Kafka" (winner)
*Roger Deakins for "Homicide"
*Eric Alan Edwards and John Campbell for "My Own Private Idaho"
*Tom Richmond for "Pastime"
*Johnny Jensen for "Rambling Rose"1993
*Frederick Elmes for "Night on Earth" (winner)
*Jon Jost for "All the Vermeers in New York"
*Jean de Segonzac for "Laws of Gravity"
*Ed Lachman for "Light Sleeper"
*Ellen Kuras for "Swoon"1994
*Lisa Rinzler for "Menace II Society" (winner)
*James Bagdonas for "American Heart"
*Nancy Schreiber for "Chain of Desire"
*Elliott Davis for "Equinox"
*Alex Vlacos for "Ruby in Paradise"1995
*John Thomas for "Barcelona" (winner)
*Jong Lin for "Eat Drink Man Woman"
*Alexander Gruzynski for "I Like It Like That"
*Greg Gardiner for "Suture"
*Stevan Larner for "The Beans of Egypt, Maine"1996
*Declan Quinn for "Leaving Las Vegas" (winner)
*Tom Richmond for "Little Odessa"
*Jim Denault for "Nadja"
*Elliott Davis for "The Underneath"
*Newton Thomas Sigel for "The Usual Suspects"1997
*Roger Deakins for "Fargo" (winner)
*Bill Pope for "Bound"
*Rob Sweeney for "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day"
*Robby Müller for "Dead Man"
*Ken Kelsch for "The Funeral"1998
*Declan Quinn for "Kama Sutra" (winner)
*Frank DeMarco for "Habit"
*Robert Elswit for "Hard Eight"
*Michael Barrow and John Foster for "Sunday"
*Alex Vendler for "The Bible and Gun Club"1999
*Maryse Alberti for "Velvet Goldmine" (winner)
*Paul Sarossy for "Affliction"
*Malik Sayeed for "Belly"
*Tami Reiker for "High Art"
*Matthew Libatique for "Pi"2000
*Lisa Rinzler for "Three Seasons"
*Jeffrey Seckendorf for "Judy Berlin"
*Anthony Dod Mantle for "Julien Donkey-Boy"
*Harlan Bosmajian for "La Ciudad"
*M. David Mullen for "Twin Falls Idaho"2001
*Matthew Libatique for "Requiem for a Dream" (winner)
*Xavier Grobet and Guillermo Rosas for "Before Night Falls"
*Tim Orr for "George Washington"
*John De Borman for "Hamlet"
*Lou Bogue for "Shadow of the Vampire"2002
*Peter Deming for "Mulholland Drive" (winner)
*Frank DeMarco for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
*Wally Pfister for "Memento"
*W. Mott Hupfel III for "The American Astronaut"
*Giles Nuttgens for "The Deep End"2003
*Ed Lachman for "Far From Heaven" (winner)
*Harris Savides for "Gerry"
*Richard Rutkowski for "Interview with the Assassin"
*Alex Nepomniaschy for "Narc"
*Ellen Kuras for "Personal Velocity"2004
*Declan Quinn for "In America" (winner)
*Harris Savides for "Elephant"
*M. David Mullen for "Northfork"
*Derek Cianfrance for "Quattro Noza"
*Mandy Walker for "Shattered Glass"2005
*Eric Gautier for "The Motorcycle Diaries" (winner)
*Tim Orr for "Dandelion"
*David Greene for "Redemption"
*Ryan Little for "Saints and Soldiers"
*Maryse Alberti for "We Don't Live Here Anymore"2006
*Robert Elswit for "Good Night, and Good Luck" (winner)
*Adam Kimmel for "Capote"
*John Foster for "Keane"
*Harris Savides for "Last Days"
*Chris Menges for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"2007
*Guillermo Navarro for "Pan's Labyrinth" (winner)
*Anthony Dod Mantle for "Brothers of the Head"
*Arin Crumley for "Four Eyed Monsters"
*Michael Simmonds for "Man Push Cart"
*Aaron Platt for "Wild Tigers I Have Known"2008
*Janusz Kaminski for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (winner)
*Mott Hupful for "The Savages"
*Milton Kam for "Vanaja"
*Mihai Malaimare, Jr. for "Youth Without Youth"
*Rodrigo Prieto for "Lust, Caution"

External links

* [http://filmindependent.org/spiritawards/ Official website]