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{{Short description|Film award given for achievement by independent film cinematographers}}
The '''Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography''' is one of the annual awards given by [[Independent Spirit Awards]], a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.
{{Infobox award
| name = [[Independent Spirit Awards|Independent Spirit Award]] for Best Cinematography
| awarded_for = Best Cinematography
| image =
| caption =
| presenter = Film Independent
| country = [[United States]]
| year = 1985
| holder = [[Eigil Bryld]] for ''[[The Holdovers]]'' (2023)
| website = {{url|https://www.filmindependent.org}}
}}


The '''Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography''' is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first given in 1985, with Japanese cinematographer [[Toyomichi Kurita]] being the first recipient of the award for his work in ''[[Trouble in Mind (film)|Trouble in Mind]]''.
==Notes==
*° [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]] winner
*! [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]] nominee


== Winners and nominees ==
==Winners and nominees==
===1980s===
{| class="wikitable" width="90%" cellpadding="5"
|-
!width="100"|'''Year'''
!width="450"|'''Film'''
!width="450"|'''Recipient(s)'''
|-
|rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|[[1st Independent Spirit Awards|1985]]<br /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Film Independent Spirit Awards - 34 Years of Nominees and Winners |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/SA_SubForm_etc/2019_SA_NomsWinners_092619.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230021022/https://s3.amazonaws.com/SA_SubForm_etc/2019_SA_NomsWinners_092619.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-30 |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=s3.amazonaws.com |page=47}}</ref><ref>[https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/independent-spirit-awards-predictions-barry-jenkins-director-if-beale-street-could-talk/ Barry Jenkins expected to join tiny group of double directing champs at Spirit Awards - GoldDerby]</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Trouble in Mind (film)|Trouble in Mind]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Toyomichi Kurita]]'''
|-
| ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]'' || [[Michael Ballhaus]]
|-
| ''[[Blood Simple]]'' || [[Barry Sonnenfeld]]
|-
| ''[[Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart]]'' || Michael Chin
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[2nd Independent Spirit Awards|1986]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]]'''
|-
| ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'' || [[Frederick Elmes]]
|-
| ''[[Down by Law (film)|Down by Law]]'' || [[Robby Müller]]
|-
| ''[[Salvador (film)|Salvador]]'' || [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]]
|-
| ''[[True Stories (film)|True Stories]]'' || [[Edward Lachman]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[3rd Independent Spirit Awards|1987]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Matewan]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Haskell Wexler]]'''
|-
| ''[[Barfly (film)|Barfly]]'' || [[Robby Müller]]
|-
| ''[[The Dead (1987 film)|The Dead]]'' || [[Fred Murphy (cinematographer)|Fred Murphy]]
|-
| ''[[Slam Dance (film)|Slam Dance]]'' || [[Amir Mokri]]
|-
| ''[[Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)|Tough Guys Don't Dance]]'' || [[John Bailey (cinematographer)|John Bailey]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[4th Independent Spirit Awards|1988]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Sven Nykvist]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Moderns]]'' || [[Toyomichi Kurita]]
|-
| ''[[Patti Rocks]]'' || Gregory M. Cummins
|-
| ''[[Stand and Deliver]]'' || [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]]
|-
| ''[[Talk Radio (film)|Talk Radio]]'' || [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[5th Independent Spirit Awards|1989]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Drugstore Cowboy]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Robert Yeoman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' || [[Oliver Stapleton]]
|-
| ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]'' || [[Robby Müller]]
|-
| ''[[Powwow Highway]]'' || [[Toyomichi Kurita]]
|-
| ''[[Talking to Strangers (film)|Talking to Strangers]]'' || [[Rob Tregenza]]
|-
|}


=== 1980s ===
===1990s===
{| class="wikitable" width="90%" cellpadding="5"
* '''1985: [[Toyomichi Kurita]] – ''[[Trouble in Mind (film)|Trouble in Mind]]''
|-
** [[Michael Ballhaus]] – ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]''
!width="100"|'''Year'''
** [[Barry Sonnenfeld]] – ''[[Blood Simple]]''
!width="450"|'''Film'''
** Michael Chin – ''[[Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart]]''
!width="450"|'''Recipient(s)'''
* '''1986: [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]] – ''[[Platoon (film)|Platoon]]'' !
|-
** [[Frederick Elmes]] – ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[6th Independent Spirit Awards|1990]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Frederick Elmes]]'''
** [[Robby Müller]] – ''[[Down by Law (film)|Down by Law]]''
|-
** [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]] – ''[[Salvador (film)|Salvador]]''
** [[Edward Lachman]] – ''[[True Stories (film)|True Stories]]''
| ''[[House Party (film)|House Party]]'' || [[Peter Deming]]
|-
* '''1987: [[Haskell Wexler]] – ''[[Matewan]]'' !
| ''[[King of New York]]'' || [[Bojan Bazelli]]
** [[Robby Müller]] – ''[[Barfly (film)|Barfly]]''
|-
** [[Fred Murphy (cinematographer)|Fred Murphy]] – ''[[The Dead (1987 film)|The Dead]]''
| ''[[Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive]]'' || [[Amir Mokri]]
** [[Amir Mokri]] – ''[[Slam Dance (film)|Slam Dance]]''
|-
** [[John Bailey (cinematographer)|John Bailey]] – ''[[Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)|Tough Guys Don't Dance]]''
| ''[[The Plot Against Harry]]'' || [[Robert M. Young (director)|Robert M. Young]]
* '''1988: [[Sven Nykvist]] – ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' !
|-
** [[Toyomichi Kurita]] – ''[[The Moderns]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[7th Independent Spirit Awards|1991]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Kafka (film)|Kafka]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''Walt Lloyd'''
** Gregory Cummins – ''[[Patti Rocks]]''
|-
** [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]] – ''[[Stand and Deliver]]''
| ''[[Homicide (1991 film)|Homicide]]'' || [[Roger Deakins]]
** [[Robert Richardson (cinematographer)|Robert Richardson]] – ''[[Talk Radio (film)|Talk Radio]]''
|-
* '''1989: [[Robert Yeoman]] – ''[[Drugstore Cowboy]]''
| ''[[My Own Private Idaho]]'' || Eric Alan Edwards and John J. Campbell
** [[Oliver Stapleton]] – ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]''
|-
** [[Robby Müller]] – ''[[Mystery Train (film)|Mystery Train]]''
| ''[[Pastime (film)|Pastime]]'' || [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]]
** [[Toyomichi Kurita]] – ''[[Powwow Highway]]''
|-
** [[Robert Tregenza]] – ''[[Talking to Strangers]]''
| ''[[Rambling Rose (film)|Rambling Rose]]'' || [[Johnny E. Jensen]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[8th Independent Spirit Awards|1992]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Night on Earth]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Frederick Elmes]]'''
|-
| ''[[All the Vermeers in New York]]'' || [[Jon Jost]]
|-
| ''[[Laws of Gravity (film)|Laws of Gravity]]'' || [[Jean de Segonzac]]
|-
| ''[[Light Sleeper]]'' || [[Edward Lachman]]
|-
| ''[[Swoon (film)|Swoon]]'' || [[Ellen Kuras]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[9th Independent Spirit Awards|1993]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Menace II Society]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Lisa Rinzler]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Heart (film)|American Heart]]'' || James R. Bagdonas
|-
| ''[[Chain of Desire]]'' || [[Nancy Schreiber]]
|-
| ''[[Equinox (1992 film)|Equinox]]'' || [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]]
|-
| ''[[Ruby in Paradise]]'' || Alex Vlacos
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[10th Independent Spirit Awards|1994]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Barcelona (film)|Barcelona]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''John Thomas'''
|-
| ''[[The Beans of Egypt, Maine]]'' || [[Stevan Larner]]
|-
| ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]'' || [[Jong Lin]]
|-
| ''[[I Like It Like That (film)|I Like It Like That]]'' || [[Alexander Gruszynski]]
|-
| ''[[Suture (film)|Suture]]'' || [[Greg Gardiner]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[11th Independent Spirit Awards|1995]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Declan Quinn]]'''
|-
| ''[[Little Odessa (film)|Little Odessa]]'' || [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]]
|-
| ''[[Nadja (film)|Nadja]]'' || [[Jim Denault]]
|-
| ''[[The Underneath (film)|The Underneath]]'' || [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]]
|-
| ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' || [[Newton Thomas Sigel]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[12th Independent Spirit Awards|1996]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Roger Deakins]]'''
|-
| ''[[Bound (1996 film)|Bound]]'' || [[Bill Pope]]
|-
| ''[[Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day]]'' || Rob Sweeney
|-
| ''[[Dead Man]]'' || [[Robby Müller]]
|-
| ''[[The Funeral (1996 film)|The Funeral]]'' || [[Ken Kelsch]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[13th Independent Spirit Awards|1997]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Declan Quinn]]'''
|-
| ''The Bible and Gun Club'' || Alex Vendler
|-
| ''[[Habit (1997 film)|Habit]]'' || Frank G. DeMarco
|-
| ''[[Hard Eight (film)|Hard Eight]]'' || [[Robert Elswit]]
|-
| ''[[Sunday (1997 film)|Sunday]]'' || Michael Barrow and John Foster
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[14th Independent Spirit Awards|1998]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Velvet Goldmine]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Maryse Alberti]]'''
|-
| ''[[Affliction (1997 film)|Affliction]]'' || [[Paul Sarossy]]
|-
| ''[[Belly (film)|Belly]]'' || [[Malik Hassan Sayeed]]
|-
| ''[[High Art]]'' || [[Tami Reiker]]
|-
| ''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]'' || [[Matthew Libatique]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[15th Independent Spirit Awards|1999]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Three Seasons]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Lisa Rinzler]]'''
|-
| ''[[The City (1998 film)|The City]]'' || Harlan Bosmajian
|-
| ''[[Judy Berlin]]'' || Jeffrey Seckendorf
|-
| ''[[Julien Donkey-Boy]]'' || [[Anthony Dod Mantle]]
|-
| ''[[Twin Falls Idaho (film)|Twin Falls Idaho]]'' || [[M. David Mullen]]
|-
|}


=== 1990s ===
===2000s===
{| class="wikitable" width="90%" cellpadding="5"
* '''1990: [[Frederick Elmes]] – ''[[Wild at Heart (film)|Wild at Heart]]''<ref>[https://ascmag.com/articles/artistry-in-balance-fred-elmes-asc Artistry in Balance: Fred Elmes, ASC - The American Society of Cinematographers]</ref>
|-
** [[Peter Deming]] – ''[[House Party (film)|House Party]]''
!width="100"|'''Year'''
** [[Bojan Bazelli]] – ''[[King of New York]]''
!width="450"|'''Film'''
** [[Amir Mokri]] – ''[[Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive]]''
!width="450"|'''Recipient(s)'''
** [[Robert M. Young (film director)|Robert M. Young]] – ''[[The Plot Against Harry]]''
|-
* '''1991: Walt Lloyd – ''[[Kafka (film)|Kafka]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[16th Independent Spirit Awards|2000]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Requiem for a Dream]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Matthew Libatique]]'''
** [[Roger Deakins]] – ''[[Homicide (1991 film)|Homicide]]''
|-
** Eric Alan Edwards and John Campbell – ''[[My Own Private Idaho]]''
| ''[[Before Night Falls (film)|Before Night Falls]]'' || Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas
** [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]] – ''[[Pastime (film)|Pastime]]''
|-
** [[Johnny E. Jensen]] – ''[[Rambling Rose (film)|Rambling Rose]]''
| ''[[George Washington (film)|George Washington]]'' || [[Tim Orr]]
* '''1992: [[Frederick Elmes]] – ''[[Night on Earth (film)|Night on Earth]]''<ref>[https://ascmag.com/articles/artistry-in-balance-fred-elmes-asc Artistry in Balance: Fred Elmes, ASC - The American Society of Cinematographers]</ref>
|-
** [[Jon Jost]] – ''[[All the Vermeers in New York]]''
| ''[[Hamlet (2000 film)|Hamlet]]'' || [[John de Borman]]
** [[Jean de Segonzac]] – ''[[Laws of Gravity (film)|Laws of Gravity]]''
|-
** [[Edward Lachman]] – ''[[Light Sleeper]]''
| ''[[Shadow of the Vampire]]'' || Lou Bogue
** [[Ellen Kuras]] – ''[[Swoon (film)|Swoon]]''
|-
* '''1993: Lisa Rinzler – ''[[Menace II Society]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[17th Independent Spirit Awards|2001]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Peter Deming]]'''
** James Bagdonas – ''[[American Heart (film)|American Heart]]''
|-
** Nancy Schreiber – ''[[Chain of Desire]]''
| ''[[The American Astronaut]]'' || [[W. Mott Hupfel III]]
** [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]] – ''[[Equinox (1992 film)|Equinox]]''
|-
** Alex Vlacos – ''[[Ruby in Paradise]]''
| ''[[The Deep End (film)|The Deep End]]'' || [[Giles Nuttgens]]
* '''1994: John Thomas – ''[[Barcelona (film)|Barcelona]]''
|-
** [[Stevan Larner]] – ''[[The Beans of Egypt, Maine]]''
| ''[[Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)|Hedwig and the Angry Inch]]'' || Frank G. DeMarco
** [[Jong Lin]] – ''[[Eat Drink Man Woman]]''
|-
** Alexander Gruzynski – ''[[I Like It Like That (film)|I Like It Like That]]''
** [[Greg Gardiner]] – ''[[Suture (film)|Suture]]''
| ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]'' || [[Wally Pfister]]
|-
* '''1995: [[Declan Quinn]] – ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[18th Independent Spirit Awards|2002]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Far from Heaven]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Edward Lachman]]'''
** [[Tom Richmond (cinematographer)|Tom Richmond]] – ''[[Little Odessa (film)|Little Odessa]]''
|-
** Jim Denault – ''[[Nadja (film)|Nadja]]''
| ''[[Gerry (2002 film)|Gerry]]'' || [[Harris Savides]]
** [[Elliot Davis (cinematographer)|Elliot Davis]] – ''[[The Underneath (film)|The Underneath]]''
|-
** [[Newton Thomas Sigel]] – ''[[The Usual Suspects]]''
| ''[[Interview with the Assassin]]'' || Richard Rutkowski
* '''1996: [[Roger Deakins]] – ''[[Fargo (film)|Fargo]]'' !
|-
** [[Bill Pope]] – ''[[Bound (1996 film)|Bound]]''
| ''[[Narc (film)|Narc]]'' || [[Alex Nepomniaschy]]
** Rob Sweeney – ''[[Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day]]''
|-
** [[Robby Müller]] – ''[[Dead Man]]''
| ''[[Personal Velocity: Three Portraits]]'' || [[Ellen Kuras]]
** [[Ken Kelsch]] – ''[[The Funeral (1996 film)|The Funeral]]''
|-
* '''1997: [[Declan Quinn]] – ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[19th Independent Spirit Awards|2003]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[In America (film)|In America]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Declan Quinn]]'''
** Alex Vendler – ''The Bible and Gun Club''
|-
** Frank G. DeMarco – ''[[Habit (1997 film)|Habit]]''
| ''[[Elephant (2003 film)|Elephant]]'' || [[Harris Savides]]
** [[Robert Elswit]] – ''[[Hard Eight (film)|Hard Eight]]''
|-
** Michael Barrow and John Foster – ''[[Sunday (1997 film)|Sunday]]''
* '''1998: [[Maryse Alberti]] ''[[Velvet Goldmine]]''
| ''[[Northfork]]'' || [[M. David Mullen]]
|-
** [[Paul Sarossy]] – ''[[Affliction (1997 film)|Affliction]]''
| ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]'' || [[Mandy Walker]]
** [[Malik Sayeed]] – ''[[Belly (film)|Belly]]''
|-
** [[Tami Reiker]] – ''[[High Art]]''
| ''Streets of Legend'' || [[Derek Cianfrance]]
** [[Matthew Libatique]] – ''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]''
|-
* '''1999: Lisa Rinzler – ''[[Three Seasons]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[20th Independent Spirit Awards|2004]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Éric Gautier]]'''
** Harlan Bosmajian – ''[[The City (1998 film)|The City]]''
|-
** Jeffrey Seckendorf – ''[[Judy Berlin]]''
| ''[[Dandelion (2004 film)|Dandelion]]'' || [[Tim Orr]]
** [[Anthony Dod Mantle]] – ''[[Julien Donkey-Boy]]''
|-
** [[M. David Mullen]] – ''[[Twin Falls Idaho (film)|Twin Falls Idaho]]''
| ''[[Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story]]'' || David Greene
|-
| ''[[Saints and Soldiers]]'' || [[Ryan Little]]
|-
| ''[[We Don't Live Here Anymore]]'' || [[Maryse Alberti]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[21st Independent Spirit Awards|2005]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Robert Elswit]]'''
|-
| ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]'' || Adam Kimmel
|-
| ''[[Keane (film)|Keane]]'' || John Foster
|-
| ''[[Last Days (2005 film)|Last Days]]'' || [[Harris Savides]]
|-
| ''[[The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada]]'' || [[Chris Menges]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[22nd Independent Spirit Awards|2006]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Guillermo Navarro]]'''
|-
| ''[[Brothers of the Head]]'' || [[Anthony Dod Mantle]]
|-
| ''[[Four Eyed Monsters]]'' || Arin Crumley
|-
| ''[[Man Push Cart]]'' || Michael Simmonds
|-
| ''[[Wild Tigers I Have Known]]'' || [[Aaron Platt]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[23rd Independent Spirit Awards|2007]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Janusz Kamiński]]'''
|-
| ''[[Lust, Caution]]'' || [[Rodrigo Prieto]]
|-
| ''[[The Savages (film)|The Savages]]'' || [[W. Mott Hupfel III]]
|-
| ''[[Vanaja (film)|Vanaja]]'' || Milton Kam
|-
| ''[[Youth Without Youth (film)|Youth Without Youth]]'' || [[Mihai Mălaimare Jr.]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[24th Independent Spirit Awards|2008]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Wrestler (2008 film)|The Wrestler]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Maryse Alberti]]'''
|-
| ''[[Ballast (film)|Ballast]]'' || [[Lol Crawley]]
|-
| ''[[Chop Shop (film)|Chop Shop]]'' || Michael Simmonds
|-
| ''[[Medicine for Melancholy]]'' || [[James Laxton]]
|-
| ''[[Milk (2008 American film)|Milk]]'' || [[Harris Savides]]
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[25th Independent Spirit Awards|2009]]<br /> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[A Serious Man]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Roger Deakins]]'''
|-
| ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]]'' || [[Peter Zeitlinger]]
|-
| ''[[Cold Souls]]'' || [[Andrij Parekh]]
|-
| ''[[Sin nombre (2009 film)|Sin nombre]]'' || [[Adriano Goldman]]
|-
| ''[[Treeless Mountain]]'' || Anne Misawa
|-
|}


=== 2000s ===
===2010s===
{| class="wikitable" width="90%" cellpadding="5"
* '''2000: [[Matthew Libatique]] – ''[[Requiem for a Dream]]''
|-
** [[Xavier Grobet]] and [[Guillermo Rosas]] – ''[[Before Night Falls (film)|Before Night Falls]]''
!width="100"|'''Year'''
** [[Tim Orr]] – ''[[George Washington (film)|George Washington]]''
!width="450"|'''Film'''
** [[John De Borman]] – ''[[Hamlet (2000 film)|Hamlet]]''
!width="450"|'''Recipient(s)'''
** [[Lou Bogue]] – ''[[Shadow of the Vampire]]''
|-
* '''2001: [[Peter Deming]] – ''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[26th Independent Spirit Awards|2010]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-swan-takes-best-feature-161977/ |title=2011 Independent Spirit Awards Winners List |last=Fernandez |first=Sofia M. |date=February 26, 2011 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 26, 2011}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Matthew Libatique]]'''
** [[W. Mott Hupfel III]] – ''[[The American Astronaut]]''
|-
** [[Giles Nuttgens]] – ''[[The Deep End (film)|The Deep End]]''
| ''[[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)|Never Let Me Go]]'' || Adam Kimmel
** [[Frank G. DeMarco|Frank DeMarco]] – ''[[Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)|Hedwig and the Angry Inch]]''
|-
** [[Wally Pfister]] – ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]''
* '''2002: [[Edward Lachman]] ''[[Far from Heaven]]'' !
| ''[[Tiny Furniture]]'' || [[Jody Lee Lipes]]
|-
** [[Harris Savides]] – ''[[Gerry (2002 film)|Gerry]]''
| ''[[Winter's Bone]]'' || Michael McDonough
** [[Richard Rutkowski]] – ''[[Interview with the Assassin]]''
|-
** [[Alex Nepomniaschy]] – ''[[Narc (film)|Narc]]''
| ''[[Greenberg (film)|Greenberg]]'' || [[Harris Savides]]
** [[Ellen Kuras]] – ''[[Personal Velocity: Three Portraits]]''
|-
* '''2003: [[Declan Quinn]] – ''[[In America (film)|In America]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[27th Independent Spirit Awards|2011]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/indie-spirit-awards-winners-list-the-artist-294970/ |title=Indie Spirit Awards 2012: Complete Winners List |last=Fernandez |first=Jay |date=February 25, 2012 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 25, 2012}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Artist (film)|The Artist]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Guillaume Schiffman]]'''
** [[Harris Savides]] – ''[[Elephant (2003 film)|Elephant]]''
|-
** [[M. David Mullen]] – ''[[Northfork]]''
| ''[[Bellflower (film)|Bellflower]]'' || [[Joel Hodge]]
** [[Mandy Walker]] – ''[[Shattered Glass (film)|Shattered Glass]]''
|-
** [[Derek Cianfrance]] – ''[[Streets of Legend]]''
| ''[[The Off Hours]]'' || Benjamin Kasulke
* '''2004: [[Éric Gautier]] – ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]''
|-
** [[Tim Orr]] – ''[[Dandelion (2004 film)|Dandelion]]''
| ''[[Midnight in Paris]]'' || [[Darius Khondji]]
** [[David Greene (cinematographer)|David Greene]] – ''[[Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story|Redemption]]''
|-
** [[Ryan Little]] – ''[[Saints and Soldiers]]''
| ''[[The Dynamiter (film)|The Dynamiter]]'' || [[Jeffrey Waldron]]
** [[Maryse Alberti]] – ''[[We Don't Live Here Anymore]]''
|-
* '''2005: [[Robert Elswit]] – ''[[Good Night, and Good Luck]]'' !
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[28th Independent Spirit Awards|2012]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/independent-spirit-awards-2013-winners-423644/ |title=Independent Spirit Awards 2013: Winners List |author=THR Staff |date=February 23, 2013 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 23, 2013}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Ben Richardson]]'''
** [[Adam Kimmel]] – ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]''
|-
** [[John Foster (cinematographer)|John Foster]] – ''[[Keane (film)|Keane]]''
** [[Harris Savides]] – ''[[Last Days (2005 film)|Last Days]]''
| ''[[Valley of Saints (film)|Valley of Saints]]'' || Yoni Brook
|-
** [[Chris Menges]] – ''[[The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada]]''
* '''2006: [[Guillermo Navarro]] ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'' °
| ''[[Here (2011 film)|Here]]'' || [[Lol Crawley]]
|-
** [[Anthony Dod Mantle]] – ''[[Brothers of the Head]]''
** [[Arin Crumley]]''[[Four Eyed Monsters]]''
| ''[[End of Watch]]'' || [[Roman Vasyanov]]
|-
** [[Michael Simmonds]] – ''[[Man Push Cart]]''
| ''[[Moonrise Kingdom]]'' || [[Robert Yeoman]]
** [[Aaron Platt]] – ''[[Wild Tigers I Have Known]]''
|-
* '''2007: [[Janusz Kamiński]] – ''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]'' !
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[29th Independent Spirit Awards|2013]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/independent-spirit-awards-2013-winners-684633/ |title=Independent Spirit Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Named Best Feature |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=March 1, 2014 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=March 1, 2014}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Sean Bobbitt]]'''
** [[Rodrigo Prieto]] – ''[[Lust, Caution]]''
|-
** [[W. Mott Hupfel III]] – ''[[The Savages (film)|The Savages]]''
** [[Milton Kam]]''[[Vanaja (film)|Vanaja]]''
| ''[[Spring Breakers]]'' || [[Benoît Debie]]
|-
** [[Mihai Mălaimare Jr.]] – ''[[Youth Without Youth (film)|Youth Without Youth]]''
| ''[[Inside Llewyn Davis]]'' || [[Bruno Delbonnel]]
* '''2008: [[Maryse Alberti]] – ''[[The Wrestler (2008 film)|The Wrestler]]''
|-
** [[Lol Crawley]] – ''[[Ballast (film)|Ballast]]''
| ''[[All Is Lost]]'' || Frank G. DeMarco
** [[Michael Simmonds]] – ''[[Chop Shop (film)|Chop Shop]]''
|-
** [[James Laxton]] – ''[[Medicine for Melancholy]]''
| ''[[Computer Chess (film)|Computer Chess]]'' || [[Matthias Grunsky]]
** [[Harris Savides]] – ''[[Milk (film)|Milk]]''
|-
* '''2009: [[Roger Deakins]] – ''[[A Serious Man]]''
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;"|[[30th Independent Spirit Awards|2014]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/spirit-awards-2015-winners-complete-775905/ |title=Spirit Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List |author=THR Staff |date=February 21, 2015 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Birdman (film)|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Emmanuel Lubezki]]'''
** [[Peter Zeitlinger]] – ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]]''
|-
** [[Andrij Parekh]] – ''[[Cold Souls]]''
** [[Adriano Goldman]] – ''[[Sin Nombre (2009 film)|Sin Nombre]]''
| ''[[The Immigrant (2013 film)|The Immigrant]]'' || [[Darius Khondji]]
|-
** [[Anne Misawa]] – ''[[Treeless Mountain]]''
| ''[[It Felt Like Love]]'' || [[Sean Porter (cinematographer)|Sean Porter]]
|-
| ''[[A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night]]'' || Lyle Vincent
|-
| ''[[Selma (film)|Selma]]'' || [[Bradford Young]]
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | [[31st Independent Spirit Awards|2015]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/full-winners-list-2016-independent-863128/ |title=Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List |author=THR Staff |date=February 27, 2016 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 27, 2016}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Carol (film)|Carol]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Edward Lachman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Beasts of No Nation (film)|Beasts of No Nation]]'' || [[Cary Joji Fukunaga]]
|-
| ''[[It Follows]]'' || [[Mike Gioulakis]]
|-
| ''[[Meadowland (film)|Meadowland]]'' || [[Reed Morano]]
|-
| ''[[Songs My Brothers Taught Me]]'' || Joshua James Richards
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | [[32nd Independent Spirit Awards|2016]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2017-independent-spirit-award-winners-complete-list-966489/ |title=Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=February 25, 2017 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 25, 2017}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[James Laxton]]'''
|-
| ''[[Free in Deed]]'' || [[Ava Berkofsky]]
|-
| ''[[The Childhood of a Leader (film)|The Childhood of a Leader]]'' || [[Lol Crawley]]
|-
| ''[[The Eyes of My Mother]]'' || [[Zach Kuperstein]]
|-
| ''[[American Honey (film)|American Honey]]'' || [[Robbie Ryan (cinematographer)|Robbie Ryan]]
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;" | [[33rd Independent Spirit Awards|2017]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/spirit-award-winners-2018-updating-live-1067773/ |title=Spirit Awards: Complete Winners List |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=March 3, 2018 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=March 3, 2018}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Killing of a Sacred Deer]]'' || [[Thimios Bakatakis]]
|-
| ''[[Columbus (2017 film)|Columbus]]'' || Elisha Christian
|-
| ''[[Beach Rats]]'' || [[Hélène Louvart]]
|-
| ''[[The Rider (film)|The Rider]]'' || Joshua James Richards
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | [[34th Independent Spirit Awards|2018]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/film-independent-spirit-award-winners-2019-list-full-1181250/ |title=Spirit Awards: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Wins Best Feature; Complete Winners List |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=February 23, 2019 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 23, 2019}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Suspiria (2018 film)|Suspiria]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]]'''
|-
| ''[[Madeline's Madeline]]'' || [[Ashley Connor]]
|-
| ''[[Mandy (2018 film)|Mandy]]'' || Benjamin Loeb
|-
| ''[[We the Animals (film)|We the Animals]]'' || [[Zak Mulligan]]
|-
| ''[[Wildlife (film)|Wildlife]]'' || Diego Garcia
|-
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | [[35th Independent Spirit Awards|2019]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/spirit-award-winners-2020-updating-live-1275924/ |title=Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'The Farewell' Takes Best Feature; Complete Winners List |last1=Galuppo |last2=Nordyke |last3=Howard |first1=Mia |first2=Kimberly |first3=Annie |date=February 8, 2020 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 8, 2020}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[The Lighthouse (2019 film)|The Lighthouse]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Jarin Blaschke]]'''
|-
| ''[[Hustlers (film)|Hustlers]]'' || Todd Banhazl
|-
| ''[[Honey Boy (film)|Honey Boy]]'' || [[Natasha Braier]]
|-
| ''[[The Third Wife]]'' || Chananun Chotrungroj
|-
| ''[[Midsommar]]'' || [[Pawel Pogorzelski]]
|-
|}


=== 2010s ===
===2020s===
{| class="wikitable" width="90%" cellpadding="5"
* '''2010: [[Matthew Libatique]] – ''[[Black Swan (film)|Black Swan]]'' !
|-
** [[Harris Savides]] – ''[[Greenberg (film)|Greenberg]]''
!width="100"|'''Year'''
** Adam Kimmel – ''[[Never Let Me Go (2010 film)|Never Let Me Go]]''
!width="450"|'''Film'''
** Jody Lee Lipes – ''[[Tiny Furniture]]''
!width="450"|'''Recipient(s)'''
** Michael McDonough – ''[[Winter's Bone]]''
|-
* '''2011: [[Guillaume Schiffman]] – ''[[The Artist (film)|The Artist]]'' !
|rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | [[36th Independent Spirit Awards|2020]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2021-independent-spirit-awards-winners-list-4171081/ |title=Film Independent Spirit Awards: 'Nomadland' Wins Best Feature, Best Director for Chloe Zhao |last1=Galuppo |last2=Nordyke |last3=Drury |last4=Perez |first1=Mia |first2=Kimberly |first3=Sharareh |first4=Lexy |date=April 22, 2021 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=April 22, 2021}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Nomadland (film)|Nomadland]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''Joshua James Richards'''
** [[Joel Hodge]] – ''[[Bellflower (film)|Bellflower]]''
|-
** Benjamin Kasulke – ''[[The Off Hours]]''
| ''[[She Dies Tomorrow]]'' || Jay Keitel
** [[Darius Khondji]] – ''[[Midnight in Paris]]''
|-
** Jeffrey Waldron – ''The Dynamiter''
| ''[[Bull (2019 film)|Bull]]'' || [[Shabier Kirchner]]
* '''2012: [[Ben Richardson]] – ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''
|-
** [[Roman Vasyanov]] – ''[[End of Watch]]''
** [[Lol Crawley]] – ''[[Here (2011 film)|Here]]''
| ''[[The Assistant (2019 film)|The Assistant]]'' || Michael Latham
|-
** [[Robert Yeoman]] – ''[[Moonrise Kingdom]]''
| ''[[Never Rarely Sometimes Always]]'' || [[Hélène Louvart]]
** [[Yoni Brook]] – ''[[Valley of Saints (film)|Valley of Saints]]''
|-
* '''2013: [[Sean Bobbitt]] – ''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'''''
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |[[37th Independent Spirit Awards|2021]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2022-independent-spirit-awards-winners-list-1235105427/ |title=Spirit Awards: Winners List |last=Nordyke |first=Kimberly |date=March 6, 2022 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=March 6, 2022}}</ref> || style="background:#B0C4DE" |'''''[[Passing (film)|Passing]]''''' || style="background:#B0C4DE" | '''[[Eduard Grau]]'''
** [[Benoît Debie]] – ''[[Spring Breakers]]''
|-
** [[Bruno Delbonnel]] – ''[[Inside Llewyn Davis]]''
| ''[[Blue Bayou (film)|Blue Bayou]]'' || [[Ante Cheng]] and Matthew Chuang
** [[Frank G. DeMarco]] – ''[[All Is Lost]]''
|-
** [[Matthias Grunsky]] – ''[[Computer Chess (film)|Computer Chess]]''
* '''2014: [[Emmanuel Lubezki]] – ''[[Birdman (film)|Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)]]''''' °
| ''[[The Humans (film)|The Humans]]'' || [[Lol Crawley]]
|-
** Lyle Vincent – ''[[A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night]]''
| ''[[A Chiara]]'' || Tim Curtin
** [[Darius Khondji]] – ''[[The Immigrant (2013 film)|The Immigrant]]''
|-
** [[Sean Porter (cinematographer)|Sean Porter]] – ''[[It Felt Like Love]]''
** [[Bradford Young]] – ''[[Selma (film)|Selma]]''
| ''[[Zola (film)|Zola]]'' || [[Ari Wegner]]
|-
* '''2015: [[Edward Lachman]] – ''[[Carol (film)|Carol]]''''' !
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |[[38th Independent Spirit Awards|2022]]<br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2023-spirit-awards-movie-nominations-nominees-list-1235268096/ |title=Independent Spirit Awards Film Nominations: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Leads With Eight Nods |last1=Lewis |last2=Coates |first1=Hilary |first2=Tyler |date=November 22, 2022 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=November 22, 2022}}</ref>
** [[Cary Fukunaga|Cary Joji Fukunaga]] – ''[[Beasts of No Nation (film)|Beasts of No Nation]]''
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | '''''[[Tár]]'''''
** Mike Gioulakis – ''[[It Follows]]''
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | '''[[Florian Hoffmeister]]'''
** [[Reed Morano]] – ''[[Meadowland (film)|Meadowland]]''
|-
** Joshua James Richards – ''[[Songs My Brothers Taught Me]]''
| ''[[Murina (film)|Murina]]'' || [[Hélène Louvart]]
* '''2016: [[James Laxton]] – ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]''''' !
|-
** Ava Berkofsky – ''[[Free in Deed]]''
| ''[[Aftersun]]'' || Gregory Oke
** [[Lol Crawley]] – ''[[The Childhood of a Leader (film)|The Childhood of a Leader]]''
|-
** Zach Kuperstein – ''[[The Eyes of My Mother]]''
| ''[[Pearl (2022 film)|Pearl]]'' || Eliot Rockett
** [[Robbie Ryan (cinematographer)|Robbie Ryan]] – ''[[American Honey (film)|American Honey]]''
|-
* '''2017: [[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]] – ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'''''<ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2018-film-independent-spirit-awards-winners-announced-300607779.html 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards Winners Announced: PR Newswire]</ref>
| ''[[Neptune Frost]]'' || [[Anisia Uzeyman]]
** [[Thimios Bakatakis]] – ''[[The Killing of a Sacred Deer]]''
|-
** Elisha Christian – ''[[Columbus (2017 film)|Columbus]]''
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |[[39th Independent Spirit Awards|2023]]
** [[Hélène Louvart]] – ''[[Beach Rats]]''
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | '''''[[The Holdovers]]'''''
** Joshua James Richards – ''[[The Rider (film)|The Rider]]''
|style="background:#B0C4DE;" | '''[[Eigil Bryld]]'''
* '''2018: [[Sayombhu Mukdeeprom]] – ''[[Suspiria (2018 film)|Suspiria]]'''''
|-
** Ashley Connor – ''[[Madeline’s Madeline]]''
| ''[[All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt]]'' || Jomo Fray
** Benjamin Loeb – ''[[Mandy (2018 film)|Mandy]]''
|-
** Zak Mulligan – ''[[We the Animals (film)|We the Animals]]''
| ''[[Chronicles of a Wandering Saint]]'' || Pablo Lozano
** Diego Garcia – ''[[Wildlife (film)|Wildlife]]''
|-
* '''2019: Jarin Blaschke – ''[[The Lighthouse (2019 film)|The Lighthouse]]'' !'''<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/spirit-award-winners-2020-updating-live-1275924 Spirit Award Winners 2020: Complete List|Hollywood Reporter]</ref>
** Todd Banhazl – ''[[Hustlers (film)|Hustlers]]''
| ''[[Monica (2022 film)|Monica]]'' || [[Katelin Arizmendi]]
|-
** [[Natasha Braier]] – ''[[Honey Boy (film)|Honey Boy]]''
| ''[[We Grown Now]]'' || Pat Scola
** Chananun Chotrungroj – ''[[The Third Wife]]''
|-
** Pawel Pogorzelski – ''[[Midsommar (film)|Midsommar]]''
|}


==See also==
{{IS Awards Chron}}
{{Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography}}
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography]]
* [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]]
* [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Cinematography]]
* [[American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{IS Awards Chron}}
{{Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography}}


[[Category:Independent Spirit Awards|C]]
[[Category:Independent Spirit Awards|C]]
[[Category:Awards for best cinematography]]
[[Category:Awards for best cinematography]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1985]]

Latest revision as of 17:26, 15 September 2024

Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography
Awarded forBest Cinematography
CountryUnited States
Presented byFilm Independent
First awarded1985
Currently held byEigil Bryld for The Holdovers (2023)
Websitewww.filmindependent.org

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual awards given out by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers. It was first given in 1985, with Japanese cinematographer Toyomichi Kurita being the first recipient of the award for his work in Trouble in Mind.

Winners and nominees

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1980s

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Year Film Recipient(s)
1985
[1][2]
Trouble in Mind Toyomichi Kurita
After Hours Michael Ballhaus
Blood Simple Barry Sonnenfeld
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Michael Chin
1986
Platoon Robert Richardson
Blue Velvet Frederick Elmes
Down by Law Robby Müller
Salvador Robert Richardson
True Stories Edward Lachman
1987
Matewan Haskell Wexler
Barfly Robby Müller
The Dead Fred Murphy
Slam Dance Amir Mokri
Tough Guys Don't Dance John Bailey
1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sven Nykvist
The Moderns Toyomichi Kurita
Patti Rocks Gregory M. Cummins
Stand and Deliver Tom Richmond
Talk Radio Robert Richardson
1989
Drugstore Cowboy Robert Yeoman
Earth Girls Are Easy Oliver Stapleton
Mystery Train Robby Müller
Powwow Highway Toyomichi Kurita
Talking to Strangers Rob Tregenza

1990s

[edit]
Year Film Recipient(s)
1990
Wild at Heart Frederick Elmes
House Party Peter Deming
King of New York Bojan Bazelli
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive Amir Mokri
The Plot Against Harry Robert M. Young
1991
Kafka Walt Lloyd
Homicide Roger Deakins
My Own Private Idaho Eric Alan Edwards and John J. Campbell
Pastime Tom Richmond
Rambling Rose Johnny E. Jensen
1992
Night on Earth Frederick Elmes
All the Vermeers in New York Jon Jost
Laws of Gravity Jean de Segonzac
Light Sleeper Edward Lachman
Swoon Ellen Kuras
1993
Menace II Society Lisa Rinzler
American Heart James R. Bagdonas
Chain of Desire Nancy Schreiber
Equinox Elliot Davis
Ruby in Paradise Alex Vlacos
1994
Barcelona John Thomas
The Beans of Egypt, Maine Stevan Larner
Eat Drink Man Woman Jong Lin
I Like It Like That Alexander Gruszynski
Suture Greg Gardiner
1995
Leaving Las Vegas Declan Quinn
Little Odessa Tom Richmond
Nadja Jim Denault
The Underneath Elliot Davis
The Usual Suspects Newton Thomas Sigel
1996
Fargo Roger Deakins
Bound Bill Pope
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day Rob Sweeney
Dead Man Robby Müller
The Funeral Ken Kelsch
1997
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love Declan Quinn
The Bible and Gun Club Alex Vendler
Habit Frank G. DeMarco
Hard Eight Robert Elswit
Sunday Michael Barrow and John Foster
1998
Velvet Goldmine Maryse Alberti
Affliction Paul Sarossy
Belly Malik Hassan Sayeed
High Art Tami Reiker
Pi Matthew Libatique
1999
Three Seasons Lisa Rinzler
The City Harlan Bosmajian
Judy Berlin Jeffrey Seckendorf
Julien Donkey-Boy Anthony Dod Mantle
Twin Falls Idaho M. David Mullen

2000s

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Year Film Recipient(s)
2000
Requiem for a Dream Matthew Libatique
Before Night Falls Xavier Pérez Grobet and Guillermo Rosas
George Washington Tim Orr
Hamlet John de Borman
Shadow of the Vampire Lou Bogue
2001
Mulholland Drive Peter Deming
The American Astronaut W. Mott Hupfel III
The Deep End Giles Nuttgens
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Frank G. DeMarco
Memento Wally Pfister
2002
Far from Heaven Edward Lachman
Gerry Harris Savides
Interview with the Assassin Richard Rutkowski
Narc Alex Nepomniaschy
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits Ellen Kuras
2003
In America Declan Quinn
Elephant Harris Savides
Northfork M. David Mullen
Shattered Glass Mandy Walker
Streets of Legend Derek Cianfrance
2004
The Motorcycle Diaries Éric Gautier
Dandelion Tim Orr
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story David Greene
Saints and Soldiers Ryan Little
We Don't Live Here Anymore Maryse Alberti
2005
Good Night, and Good Luck Robert Elswit
Capote Adam Kimmel
Keane John Foster
Last Days Harris Savides
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Chris Menges
2006
Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo Navarro
Brothers of the Head Anthony Dod Mantle
Four Eyed Monsters Arin Crumley
Man Push Cart Michael Simmonds
Wild Tigers I Have Known Aaron Platt
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Janusz Kamiński
Lust, Caution Rodrigo Prieto
The Savages W. Mott Hupfel III
Vanaja Milton Kam
Youth Without Youth Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
2008
The Wrestler Maryse Alberti
Ballast Lol Crawley
Chop Shop Michael Simmonds
Medicine for Melancholy James Laxton
Milk Harris Savides
2009
A Serious Man Roger Deakins
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Peter Zeitlinger
Cold Souls Andrij Parekh
Sin nombre Adriano Goldman
Treeless Mountain Anne Misawa

2010s

[edit]
Year Film Recipient(s)
2010
[3]
Black Swan Matthew Libatique
Never Let Me Go Adam Kimmel
Tiny Furniture Jody Lee Lipes
Winter's Bone Michael McDonough
Greenberg Harris Savides
2011
[4]
The Artist Guillaume Schiffman
Bellflower Joel Hodge
The Off Hours Benjamin Kasulke
Midnight in Paris Darius Khondji
The Dynamiter Jeffrey Waldron
2012
[5]
Beasts of the Southern Wild Ben Richardson
Valley of Saints Yoni Brook
Here Lol Crawley
End of Watch Roman Vasyanov
Moonrise Kingdom Robert Yeoman
2013
[6]
12 Years a Slave Sean Bobbitt
Spring Breakers Benoît Debie
Inside Llewyn Davis Bruno Delbonnel
All Is Lost Frank G. DeMarco
Computer Chess Matthias Grunsky
2014
[7]
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Emmanuel Lubezki
The Immigrant Darius Khondji
It Felt Like Love Sean Porter
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Lyle Vincent
Selma Bradford Young
2015
[8]
Carol Edward Lachman
Beasts of No Nation Cary Joji Fukunaga
It Follows Mike Gioulakis
Meadowland Reed Morano
Songs My Brothers Taught Me Joshua James Richards
2016
[9]
Moonlight James Laxton
Free in Deed Ava Berkofsky
The Childhood of a Leader Lol Crawley
The Eyes of My Mother Zach Kuperstein
American Honey Robbie Ryan
2017
[10]
Call Me by Your Name Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Thimios Bakatakis
Columbus Elisha Christian
Beach Rats Hélène Louvart
The Rider Joshua James Richards
2018
[11]
Suspiria Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Madeline's Madeline Ashley Connor
Mandy Benjamin Loeb
We the Animals Zak Mulligan
Wildlife Diego Garcia
2019
[12]
The Lighthouse Jarin Blaschke
Hustlers Todd Banhazl
Honey Boy Natasha Braier
The Third Wife Chananun Chotrungroj
Midsommar Pawel Pogorzelski

2020s

[edit]
Year Film Recipient(s)
2020
[13]
Nomadland Joshua James Richards
She Dies Tomorrow Jay Keitel
Bull Shabier Kirchner
The Assistant Michael Latham
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Hélène Louvart
2021
[14]
Passing Eduard Grau
Blue Bayou Ante Cheng and Matthew Chuang
The Humans Lol Crawley
A Chiara Tim Curtin
Zola Ari Wegner
2022
[15]
Tár Florian Hoffmeister
Murina Hélène Louvart
Aftersun Gregory Oke
Pearl Eliot Rockett
Neptune Frost Anisia Uzeyman
2023 The Holdovers Eigil Bryld
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Jomo Fray
Chronicles of a Wandering Saint Pablo Lozano
Monica Katelin Arizmendi
We Grown Now Pat Scola

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Film Independent Spirit Awards - 34 Years of Nominees and Winners" (PDF). s3.amazonaws.com. p. 47. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  2. ^ Barry Jenkins expected to join tiny group of double directing champs at Spirit Awards - GoldDerby
  3. ^ Fernandez, Sofia M. (February 26, 2011). "2011 Independent Spirit Awards Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 26, 2011.
  4. ^ Fernandez, Jay (February 25, 2012). "Indie Spirit Awards 2012: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  5. ^ THR Staff (February 23, 2013). "Independent Spirit Awards 2013: Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  6. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (March 1, 2014). "Independent Spirit Awards: '12 Years a Slave' Named Best Feature". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  7. ^ THR Staff (February 21, 2015). "Spirit Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  8. ^ THR Staff (February 27, 2016). "Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  9. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (February 25, 2017). "Spirit Awards: The Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  10. ^ Nordyke, Kimberly (March 3, 2018). "Spirit Awards: Complete Winners List". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
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