Satellite Award for Best Cinematography

The Satellite Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Satellite Award for Best Cinematography
Awarded for	Best Cinematography
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Matthew Libatique – Maestro (2023)
Website	www.pressacademy.com

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
1996	The English Patient	John Seale
	Breaking the Waves	Robby Müller
	Evita	Darius Khondji
	Hamlet	Alex Thomson
	Romeo + Juliet	Donald M. McAlpine
1997	Amistad	Janusz Kamiński
	Contact	Don Burgess
	Eve's Bayou	Amy Vincent
	L.A. Confidential	Dante Spinotti
	Titanic	Russell Carpenter
1998	The Thin Red Line	John Toll
	Beloved	Tak Fujimoto
	Pleasantville	John Lindley
	Saving Private Ryan	Janusz Kamiński
	Shakespeare in Love	Richard Greatrex
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Emmanuel Lubezki
	American Beauty	Conrad L. Hall
	Anna and the King	Caleb Deschanel
	Eyes Wide Shut	Larry Smith
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Robert Richardson
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	John Seale

2000s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2000	Gladiator	John Mathieson
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Peter Pau
	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Michael Ballhaus
	Mission: Impossible 2	Jeffrey L. Kimball
	Traffic	Peter Andrews
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Roger Deakins
	Hearts in Atlantis	Piotr Sobociński
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Andrew Lesnie
	Moulin Rouge!	Donald M. McAlpine
	Pearl Harbor	John Schwartzman
2002	Road to Perdition	Conrad L. Hall
	Far from Heaven	Edward Lachman
	Gangs of New York	Michael Ballhaus
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Andrew Lesnie
	Minority Report	Janusz Kamiński
2003	The Last Samurai	John Toll
	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Eduardo Serra
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Andrew Lesnie
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Russell Boyd and Sandi Sissel
	Mystic River	Tom Stern
	Seabiscuit	John Schwartzman
2004	House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)	Xiaoding Zhao
	The Aviator	Robert Richardson
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Emmanuel Lubezki
	The Phantom of the Opera	John Mathieson
	Spider-Man 2	Bill Pope and Anette Haellmigk
	A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)	Bruno Delbonnel
2005	The Constant Gardener	César Charlone
	2046	Christopher Doyle
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Philippe Rousselot
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Robert Elswit
	Kung Fu Hustle (Kung Fu)	Hang Sang Poon
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Dion Beebe
	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez
2006	Flags of Our Fathers	Tom Stern
	The Black Dahlia	Vilmos Zsigmond
	Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)	Xiaoding Zhao
	The Fountain	Matthew Libatique
	A Good Year	Philippe Le Sourd
	The House of Sand (Casa de areia)	Ricardo Della Rosa
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Dante Spinotti
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)	Janusz Kamiński
	Across the Universe	Bruno Delbonnel
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Roger Deakins
	The Golden Compass	Henry Braham
	There Will Be Blood	Robert Elswit
	Zodiac	Harris Savides
2008	Australia	Mandy Walker
	Brideshead Revisited	Jess Hall
	Changeling	Tom Stern
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Claudio Miranda
	The Duchess	Gyula Pados
	Snow Angels	Tim Orr
2009	Nine	Dion Beebe
	Inglourious Basterds	Robert Richardson
	It Might Get Loud	Guillermo Navarro and Erich Roland
	Public Enemies	Dante Spinotti
	Red Cliff (Chi bi)	Lü Yue and Zhang Li
	A Serious Man	Roger Deakins

2010s

Year	Film	Cinematographer(s)
2010 [1]	Inception	Wally Pfister
	127 Hours	Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Eduardo Serra
	I Am Love	Yorick Le Saux
	Salt	Robert Elswit
	Secretariat	Dean Semler
	Shutter Island	Robert Richardson
	Unstoppable	Ben Seresin
2011 [2]	War Horse	Janusz Kamiński
	The Artist	Guillaume Schiffman
	Drive	Newton Thomas Sigel
	Faust	Bruno Delbonnel
	Hugo	Robert Richardson
	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki
2012 [3]	Life of Pi	Claudio Miranda
	Anna Karenina	Seamus McGarvey
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Ben Richardson
	Lincoln	Janusz Kamiński
	The Master	Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
	Skyfall	Roger Deakins
2013 [4]	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
	12 Years a Slave	Sean Bobbitt
	Gravity	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Prisoners	Roger Deakins
	Rush	Anthony Dod Mantle
	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Stuart Dryburgh
2014 [5]	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
	Birdman	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Gone Girl	Jeff Cronenweth
	Inherent Vice	Robert Elswit
	Interstellar	Hoyte van Hoytema
	The Theory of Everything	Benoît Delhomme
2015 [6]	Mad Max: Fury Road	John Seale
	Bridge of Spies	Janusz Kamiński
	The Martian	Dariusz Wolski
	The Revenant	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Sicario	Roger Deakins
	Spectre	Hoyte van Hoytema
2016 [7]	The Jungle Book	Bill Pope
	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk	John Toll
	Hacksaw Ridge	Simon Duggan
	The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies)	Jani-Petteri Passi
	La La Land	Linus Sandgren
	Moonlight	James Laxton
2017 [8]	Blade Runner 2049	Roger Deakins
	Darkest Hour	Bruno Delbonnel
	Dunkirk	Hoyte van Hoytema
	Lady Bird	Sam Levy
	The Shape of Water	Dan Laustsen
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Ben Davis
2018 [9]	A Star Is Born	Matthew Libatique
	Black Panther	Rachel Morrison
	Cold War	Łukasz Żal
	The Favourite	Robbie Ryan
	If Beale Street Could Talk	James Laxton
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
2019 [10]	1917	Roger Deakins
	Ford v Ferrari	Phedon Papamichael
	The Irishman	Rodrigo Prieto
	Joker	Lawrence Sher
	Motherless Brooklyn	Dick Pope
	Rocketman	George Richmond

2020s

Year	Film	Cinematographer
2020 [11]	Mank	Erik Messerschmidt
	The Midnight Sky	Martin Ruhe
	News of the World	Dariusz Wolski
	Nomadland	Joshua James Richards
	One Night in Miami...	Tami Reiker
	Tenet	Hoyte van Hoytema
2021 [12]	Dune	Greig Fraser
	Belfast	Haris Zambarloukos
	C'mon C'mon	Robbie Ryan
	The Power of the Dog	Ari Wegner
	tick, tick... BOOM!	Alice Brooks
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Bruno Delbonnel
2022 [13]	Top Gun: Maverick	Claudio Miranda
	Avatar: The Way of Water	Russell Carpenter
	Babylon	Linus Sandgren
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Ben Davis
	Elvis	Mandy Walker
	Empire of Light	Roger Deakins
2023 [14]	Maestro	Matthew Libatique
	Ferrari	Erik Messerschmidt
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Rodrigo Prieto
	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	Fraser Taggart
	Napoleon	Dariusz Wolski
	Oppenheimer	Hoyte van Hoytema
	Saltburn	Linus Sandgren