National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography

The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best cinematographer of the year.

English cinematographer Roger Deakins won this award a record four times. Haskell Wexler, Néstor Almendros, Gordon Willis, Philippe Rousselot, and Christopher Doyle each won the award twice.

Winners

1960s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Haskell Wexler
1968	Bullitt	William A. Fraker
1969	The Wild Bunch	Lucien Ballard

1970s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1970	My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud)	Néstor Almendros
	The Wild Child
1971	The Conformist (Il conformista)	Vittorio Storaro
1972	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Sven Nykvist
1973	The Long Goodbye	Vilmos Zsigmond
1974	The Godfather Part II	Gordon Willis
	The Parallax View
1975	Barry Lyndon	John Alcott
1976	Bound for Glory	Haskell Wexler
1977	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes)	Thomas Mauch
1978	Days of Heaven	Néstor Almendros
1979	Being There	Caleb Deschanel
	The Black Stallion

1980s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1980	Raging Bull	Michael Chapman
1981	Pennies from Heaven	Gordon Willis
1982	Diva	Philippe Rousselot
1983	Never Cry Wolf	Hiro Narita
1984	Comfort and Joy	Chris Menges
	The Killing Fields
1985	Ran	Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda, and Asakazu Nakai
1986	Blue Velvet	Frederick Elmes
1987	Hope and Glory	Philippe Rousselot
1988	Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)	Henri Alekan
1989	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Michael Ballhaus

1990s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1990	Where the Heart Is	Peter Suschitzky
1991	Barton Fink	Roger Deakins
1992	Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)	Zhao Fei
1993	Schindler's List	Janusz Kamiński
1994	Ed Wood	Stefan Czapsky
1995	Devil in a Blue Dress	Tak Fujimoto
1996	Breaking the Waves	Robby Müller
	Dead Man
1997	Kundun	Roger Deakins
1998	The Thin Red Line	John Toll
1999	American Beauty	Conrad L. Hall

2000s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2000	Beau Travail	Agnès Godard
2001	In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa)	Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee
2002	Far from Heaven	Edward Lachman
2003	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Russell Boyd
2004	House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)	Xiaoding Zhao
2005	2046	Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung
2006	Children of Men	Emmanuel Lubezki
2007	There Will Be Blood	Robert Elswit
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Anthony Dod Mantle
2009	The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band)	Christian Berger

2010s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2010	True Grit	Roger Deakins
2011	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki
2012	The Master	Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
2014	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
2015	Carol	Edward Lachman
2016	Moonlight	James Laxton[1]
2017	Blade Runner 2049	Roger Deakins[2]
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón[3]
2019	Atlantics	Claire Mathon[4]
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire

2020s

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
2020	Nomadland	Joshua James Richards[5]
2021	The Green Knight	Andrew Droz Palermo[6]
2022	EO	Michał Dymek[7]
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	Rodrigo Prieto[8]
2024	Nickel Boys	Jomo Fray