Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

Winners

1980s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1980	Raging Bull	Michael Chapman
1981	Pennies from Heaven	Gordon Willis
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Allen Daviau
1983	Never Cry Wolf	Hiro Narita
1984	The Killing Fields	Chris Menges
1985	Ran	Takao Saitō and Shōji Ueda
1986	Blue Velvet	Frederick Elmes
1987	The Last Emperor	Vittorio Storaro
1988	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Sven Nykvist
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Michael Ballhaus

1990s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1990	No information
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Tak Fujimoto
1992	Unforgiven	Jack N. Green
1993	Schindler's List	Janusz Kamiński
1994	Ed Wood	Stefan Czapsky
1995	Safe	Alex Nepomniaschy
1996	The English Patient	John Seale
1997	Kundun	Roger Deakins
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Janusz Kamiński
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Emmanuel Lubezki

2000s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Peter Pau
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Roger Deakins
2002	Far from Heaven	Edward Lachman
2003	Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur)	Olli Barbé and 14 others
2004	House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)	Zhao Xiaoding[1]
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Robert Elswit
2006	Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del fauno)	Guillermo Navarro
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)	Janusz Kamiński
2008	Paranoid Park	Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li
2009	The Hurt Locker	Barry Ackroyd

2010s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2010	True Grit	Roger Deakins
2011	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki[2]
2012	The Master	Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
2013	Gravity	Emmanuel Lubezki
2014	Birdman	Emmanuel Lubezki
2015	Carol	Edward Lachman
2016	The Handmaiden	Chung Chung-hoon
2017	Dunkirk	Hoyte van Hoytema
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuaron
2019	Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu)	Claire Mathon[3]

2020s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2020	Nomadland	Joshua James Richards[4]
2021	The Power of the Dog	Ari Wegner[5]