300 Greatest Movie Cinematographers

  1. Billy Bitzer (Intolerance)
  2. Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane)
  3. Conrad L. Hall (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
  4. Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia)
  5. Roger Deakins (The Shawshank Redemption)
  6. James Wong Howe (Hud)
  7. Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now)
  8. Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers)
  9. Karl Freund (The Last Laugh)
10. Fritz Arno Wagner (M)
11. Robert Burks (Vertigo)
12. Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon)
13. Gordon Willis (The Godfather)
14. Vilmos Zsigmond (The Deer Hunter)
15. Haskell Wexler (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
16. Leon Shamroy (Cleopatra)
17. Robert L. Surtees (The Graduate)
18. Charles Lang (A Farewell to Arms)
19. Louis Lumière (L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat)
20. Rudolph Maté (The Passion of Joan of Arc)
21. Winton C. Hoch (The Searchers)
22. Jack Cardiff (Black Narcissus)
23. Tonino Delli Colli (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
24. Subrata Mitra (Pather Panchali)
25. Hal Mohr (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
26. Joseph Ruttenberg (Gaslight)
27. Harry Stradling (My Fair Lady)
28. Arthur Edeson (Casablanca)
29. Asakazu Nakai (Seven Samurai)
30. Jordan Cronenweth (Blade Runner)
31. Robert Richardson (JFK)
32. Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
33. Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List)
34. Eduard Tisse (Strike)
35. Guido Seeber (The Student of Prague)
36. John Alcott (Barry Lyndon)
37. Raoul Coutard (Breathless)
38. Henri Decaë (The 400 Blows)
39. Eugen Schüfftan (The Hustler)
40. Karl Struss (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
41. Charles G. Rosher (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans)
42. Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven)
43. Owen Roizman (The French Connection)
44. George Barnes (Rebecca)
45. George J. Folsey (Meet Me in St. Louis)
46. W. Howard Greene (A Star Is Born)
47. Edward Cronjager (Heaven Can Wait)
48. John F. Seitz (Sunset Blvd.)
49. Boris Kaufman (On the Waterfront)
50. Robby Müller (Paris, Texas)
51. Yuharu Atsuta (Tokyo Story)
52. Gianni Di Venanzo (8½)
53. Christian Matras (The Earrings of Madame De...)
54. Franz Planer (Letter from an Unknown Woman)
55. Tony Gaudio (Hell's Angels)
56. Ray Rennahan (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
57. Arthur C. Miller (How Green Was My Valley)
58. Santosh Sivan (The Terrorist)
59. Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret)
60. Burnett Guffey (Bonnie and Clyde)
61. Ernest Haller (Gone with the Wind)
62. Victor Milner (The Lady Eve)
63. Joseph LaShelle (Laura)
64. Milton Krasner (All About Eve)
65. William Daniels (Greed)
66. Harold Rosson (The Wizard of Oz)
67. Lee Garmes (Shanghai Express)
68. Russell Harlan (To Kill a Mockingbird)
69. Freddie Francis (The Elephant Man)
70. Chris Menges (The Killing Fields)
71. John Toll (Braveheart)
72. Joseph Walker (Only Angels Have Wings)
73. Douglas Slocombe (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
74. Ernest Laszlo (Ship of Fools)
75. Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver)
76. Carlo Di Palma (Blowup)
77. Henri Alekan (Beauty and the Beast)
78. Sacha Vierny (Hiroshima mon amour)
79. Gabriel Figueroa (Los Olvidados)
80. William V. Skall (Quo Vadis)
81. William C. Mellor (A Place in the Sun)
82. Daniel L. Fapp (West Side Story)
83. Giuseppe Rotunno (Amarcord)
84. Caleb Deschanel (The Right Stuff)
85. Bruno Delbonnel (Amélie)
86. Léonce-Henri Burel (A Man Escaped)
87. Otello Martelli (La Dolce Vita)
88. Gunnar Fischer (The Seventh Seal)
89. Carl Hoffmann (Faust)
90. Julius Jaenzon (The Phantom Carriage)
91. Jules Kruger (Napoléon)
92. Allen Daviau (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
93. Bert Glennon (Stagecoach)
94. John Seale (Mad Max: Fury Road)
95. Joseph Valentine (Shadow of a Doubt)
96. William A. Fraker (Bullitt)
97. Gilbert Taylor (Star Wars)
98. John J. Mescall (Bride of Frankenstein)
99. Michael Ballhaus (GoodFellas)
100. Vadim Yusov (Andrei Rublev)

101. Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain)
102. Oswald Morris (Fiddler on the Roof)
103. Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter)
104. Russell Metty (Imitation of Life)
105. Edwin S. Porter (The Great Train Robbery)
106. James Williamson (The Big Swallow)
107. George Albert Smith (The Kiss in the Tunnel)
108. Günther Rittau (The Blue Angel)
109. John Arnold (The Big Parade)
110. Philip H. Lathrop (Point Blank)
111. Wally Pfister (Inception)
112. David Watkin (Out of Africa)
113. Ernest Palmer (Broken Arrow)
114. Leonard Smith (National Velvet)
115. Andrei Moskvin (Ivan the Terrible)
116. Fred J. Koenekamp (Patton)
117. J. Peverell Marley (Life with Father)
118. Robert H. Planck (Anchors Aweigh)
119. Loyal Griggs (Shane)
120. Mikhail Kaufman (Man with a Movie Camera)
121. Billy Williams (Gandhi)
122. Darius Khondji (Se7en)
123. Pasqualino De Santis (Romeo and Juliet)
124. Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It)
125. William H. Clothier (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance)
126. Elgin Lessley (Sherlock Jr.)
127. Louis Le Prince (Roundhay Garden Scene)
128. László Kovács (Easy Rider)
129. Lucien Ballard (The Wild Bunch)
130. Ghislain Cloquet (Au Hasard Balthazar)
131. Oliver T. Marsh (The Great Ziegfeld)
132. Walter Lassally (Zorba the Greek)
133. Ted D. McCord (The Sound of Music)
134. Charles G. Clarke (Miracle on 34th Street)
135. Ernest Dickerson (Do the Right Thing)
136. Georges Périnal (The Thief of Bagdad)
137. Sol Polito (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang)
138. Floyd D. Crosby (High Noon)
139. G.R. Aldo (Senso)
140. Otto Heller (Peeping Tom)
141. Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria)
142. Jack Hildyard (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
143. Sergey Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying)
144. Marcello Gatti (The Battle of Algiers)
145. Luis Cuadrado (The Spirit of the Beehive)
146. Aldo Tonti (Nights of Cabiria)
147. Robert Krasker (The Third Man)
148. Sam Leavitt (Anatomy of a Murder)
149. Joseph H. August (Gunga Din)
150. Joseph MacDonald (Pickup on South Street)
151. Lionel Lindon (Around the World in 80 Days)
152. Christopher Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
153. Miroslav Ondricek (Amadeus)
154. Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love)
155. Zhao Fei (Raise the Red Lantern)
156. Jean Bachelet (The Rules of the Game)
157. Jean Rabier (The Umbrellas of Cherburg)
158. Gu Changwei (Farewell My Concubine)
159. Hoyte van Hoytema (Her)
160. Alvin Wyckoff (Blood and Sand)
161. Mark Lee Ping-bing (In the Mood for Love)
162. Boris Zavelev (The Dying Swan)
163. Edward Lachman (Far from Heaven)
164. Dan Laustsen (The Shape of Water)
165. Matthew Libatique (Black Swan)
166. Allen M. Davey (Sweethearts)
167. Frederick Elmes (Blue Velvet)
168. John Alonzo (Chinatown)
169. William Heise (Blacksmith Scene)
170. Bill Butler (Jaws)
171. Robert W. Paul (The '?' Motorist)
172. Birt Acres (Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race)
173. Dean Semler (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)
174. John Alton (An American in Paris)
175. Don Burgess (Forrest Gump)
176. Ted Moore (A Man for All Seasons)
177. Dion Beebe (Memoirs of a Geisha)
178. Stephen H. Burum (The Untouchables)
179. Joseph Biroc (The Flight of the Phoenix)
180. Christian Berger (The White Ribbon)
181. Takao Saito (Ran)
182. Masaharu Ueda (Ran)
183. Thomas Mauch (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)
184. Bradford Young (Arrival)
185. Edward Colman (Mary Poppins)
186. Richard H. Kline (King Kong)
187. Girald Hirschfeld (Young Frankenstein)
188. Ray June (Funny Face)
189. Norbert Brodine (Kiss of Death)
190. Russell Carpenter (Titanic)
191. Dante Spinotti (L.A. Confidential)
192. Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
193. Andrew Lesnie (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
194. Jeff Cronenweth (Fight Club)
195. Roger Pratt (Batman)
196. Peter Biziou (The Truman Show)
197. Peter Suschitzky (The Empire Strikes Back)
198. Newton Thomas Sigel (The Usual Suspects)
199. Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)
200. Giorgos Arvanitis (The Travelling Players)

201. Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
202. Nicholas Musuraca (Out of the Past)
203. Sidney Hickox (The Big Sleep)
204. Sidney Wagner (The Postman Always Rings Twice)
205. Ted Tetzlaff (Notorious)
206. Victor Kemper (Dog Day Afternoon)
207. Elwood Bredell (The Killers)
208. Alexandre Promio (Départ de Jérusalem en chemin de fer)
209. F. Percy Smith (The Birth of a Flower)
210. Dean Cundey (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
211. Dick Pope (Secrets & Lies)
212. Robert Yeoman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
213. Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood)
214. Pawel Edelman (The Pianist)
215. Guillermo Navarro (Pan's Labyrinth)
216. Greig Fraser (Dune)
217. Theodor Sparkuhl (La Chienne)
218. Xaver Schwarzenberger (Berlin Alexanderplatz)
219. John Schwartzman (Seabiscuit)
220. John Mathieson (Gladiator)
221. Seamus McGarvey (Atonement)
222. Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker)
223. Danny Cohen (The King's Speech)
224. Harry Stradling Jr. (The Way We Were)
225. Paul C. Vogel (Lady in the Lake)
226. William E. Snyder (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
227. Jack N. Green (Unforgiven)
228. Leo Tover (The Heiress)
229. Gerry Fisher (The Go-Between)
230. Denys Coop (This Sporting Life)
231. Javier Aguirresarobe (Talk to Her)
232. Agnès Godard (Beau Travail)
233. Slawomir Idziak (Three Colours: Blue)
234. José Luis Alcaine (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
235. Bruno Nuytten (Possession)
236. Roland Totheroh (The Gold Rush)
237. Tak Fujimoto (The Silence of the Lambs)
238. Harris Savides (Milk)
239. Sayombhu Mukdeepro (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)
240. Don Peterman (Flashdance)
241. Phedon Papamichael (Nebraska)
242. Robbie Ryan (The Favourite)
243. Tony Pierce-Roberts (A Room with a View)
244. Maryse Alberti (Velvet Goldmine)
245. Russell Boyd (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
246. Eduardo Serra (The Wings of the Dove)
247. Jost Vacano (Das Boot)
248. Adam Greenberg (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)
249. Bill Pope (Matrix)
250. Carlo Montuori (Bicycle Thieves)
251. Adrian Biddle (Aliens)
252. Bruce Surtees (Dirty Harry)
253. Dariusz Wolski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
254. Arthur Arling (Pillow Talk)
255. Mauro Fiore (Avatar)
256. Ellsworth Fredericks (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
257. Alfred Gilks (An American in Paris)
258. Anatoli Golovnya (Mother)
259. Chung Chung-hoon (Oldboy)
260. Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
261. Rafael Corkidi (El Topo)
262. Blasco Giurato (Cinema Paradiso)
263. Lukasz Zal (Ida)
264. Clyde De Vinna (Tarzan the Ape Man)
265. Virgil Miller (Navajo)
266. Merritt B. Gerstad (Freaks)
267. Günther Krampf (Pandora's Box)
268. Stuart Dryburgh (The Piano)
269. Sepp Allgeier (Triumph of the Will)
270. Linus Sandgren (La La Land)
271. Timo Salminen (The Man Without a Past)
272. Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty)
273. Arthur Wong (Once Upon a Time in China)
274. Mark Irwin (The Fly)
275. Stephen Goldblatt (Lethal Weapon)
276. Charles Van Enger (The Phantom of the Opera)
277. Stefan Czapsky (Ed Wood)
278. Arthur J. Ornitz (Serpico)
279. Gilbert Warrenton (The Man Who Laughs)
280. Charles Lawton Jr. (3:10 to Yuma)
281. Guy Green (Great Expectations)
282. Oliver Wood (The Bourne Ultimatum)
283. Zhao Xiaoding (House of Flying Daggers)
284. Gökhan Tiryaki (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
285. Arthur Ibbetson (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory)
286. Dev Jennings (The General)
287. Nicolas Roeg (Walkabout)
288. Jerzy Lipman (Kanal)
289. Lajos Koltai (Malèna)
290. Curt Courant (La Bête Humaine)
291. Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
292. Benoît Debie (Irréversible)
293. Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave)
294. James Crabe (Rocky)
295. Rachel Morrison (Mudbound)
296. Lü Yue (To Live)
297. John Bailey (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters)
298. Armando Nannuzzi (La Cage aux Folles)
299. John L. Russell (Psycho)
300. Peter Deming (Mulholland Dr.)

David Abel (Top Hat)
Lucien N. Andriot (The Poor Little Rich Girl)
Thierry Arbogast (Léon: The Professional)
Jack Asher (Dracula)
Beda Batka (Marketa Lazarová)
Ralf D. Bode (Saturday Night Fever)
Jan de Bont (Die Hard)
John van den Broek (The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England)
Bruus Christensen (A Quiet Place)
Benjamin H. Cline (Detour)
Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
Ben Davis (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Stéphane Fontaine (A Prophet)
Ron Fricke (Koyaanisqatsi)
Eric Gautier (Into the Wild)
Malik Hassan Sayeed (Clockers)
György Illés (The Fifth Seal)
Arthur Jafa (Daughters of the Dust)
Mahmoud Kalari (A Separation)
Alexander Knyazhinsky (Stalker)
Mikhail Krichman (The Return)
Reggie Lanning (The Cameraman)
Hélène Louvart (Pina)
Walter Lundin (Safety Last!)
Erik Messerschmidt (Mank)
Mitsuo Miura (Where Chimneys Are Seen)
Edmond Richard (Chimes at Midnight)
Paul Sarossy (The Sweet Hereafter)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Blood Simple)
Eiji Tsuburaya (Princess Kaguya)
Mandy Walker (Elvis)
Harry Waxman (The Wicker Man)