Every Oscar Winner of the Year’s Best Cinematography Movie in the past 2 Decades, Ranked according to IMDB

To be nominated with an Oscar is no small feat. Any film just for being nominated with an Oscar would market and promote that fact all over the place. It is with great honor that we present all of thes epic movies that have won (not just been nominated) the best cinematography of the year, since 1999. We hope this list will impress you. (if not, what else?)

1

Inception

Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page
Christopher Nolan
2010

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

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8.8 IMDB
2

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Peter Jackson
2001

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

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8.8 IMDB
3

1917

George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong
Sam Mendes
2019

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

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8.3 IMDB
4

American Beauty

Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Sam Mendes
1999

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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8.3 IMDB
5

Pan's Labyrinth

Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verdú, Sergi López
Guillermo del Toro
2006

Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.

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8.2 IMDB
6

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier
Paul Thomas Anderson
2007

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

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8.2 IMDB
7

Slumdog Millionaire

Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Danny Boyle
2008

Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

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8 IMDB
8

La La Land

Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend
Damien Chazelle
2016

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

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8 IMDB
9

The Revenant

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2015

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

8 IMDB
10

Blade Runner 2049

Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas
Denis Villeneuve
2017

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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8 IMDB
11

Life of Pi

Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon
Ang Lee
2012

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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7.9 IMDB
12

Avatar

Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang
James Cameron
2009

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.

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7.8 IMDB
13

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
Ang Lee
2000

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

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7.8 IMDB
14

Gravity

Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Alfonso Cuarón
2013

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

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7.7 IMDB
15

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone
Alejandro González Iñárritu
2014

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

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7.7 IMDB
16

Road to Perdition

Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Sam Mendes
2002

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

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7.7 IMDB
17

Roma

Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Alfonso Cuarón
2018

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

7.7 IMDB
18

Hugo

Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley
Martin Scorsese
2011

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

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7.5 IMDB
19

The Aviator

Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Martin Scorsese
2004

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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7.5 IMDB
20

Memoirs of a Geisha

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Youki Kudoh
Rob Marshall
2005

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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7.4 IMDB
21

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D\'Arcy
Peter Weir
2003

After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.

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7.4 IMDB