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Top Films from Selected Cinematographers

Includes people credited as directors of photography.

Raoul Coutard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
2 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
3 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
4 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
5 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
6 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
7 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
8 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
9 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
10 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
11 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1510
12 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
13 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 2509
14 A Woman Is a Woman 1961 Jean-Luc Godard 2766

Roger Deakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
2 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
3 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
4 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
5 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 524
6 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 681
7 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
8 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 806
9 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 934
10 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 1259
11 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 1363
12 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1387
13 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1562
14 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1646
15 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 1647
16 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 1889
17 1984 1984 Michael Radford 2028
18 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2056
19 The Secret Garden 1993 Agnieszka Holland 2237
20 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen 2272
21 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley 2327
22 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2605

Charles Lang

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
3 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
4 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 429
5 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1007
6 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1319
7 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1394
8 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1528
9 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1530
10 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1788
11 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1832
12 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2026
13 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
14 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 2526

Emmanuel Lubezki

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
2 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
3 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 645
4 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 1199
5 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 1253
6 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 1275
7 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1494
8 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1550
9 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1567
10 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1764
11 A Little Princess 1995 Alfonso Cuarón 1935
12 Like Water for Chocolate 1992 Alfonso Arau 2683

Sven Nykvist

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
2 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
3 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 550
4 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
5 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 738
6 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 950
8 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 987
9 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
10 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1034
11 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1299
12 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
13 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1409
14 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1547
15 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 1601
16 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
17 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2355
18 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 2714
19 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2770

Robert Richardson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
2 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272
3 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 274
4 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 398
5 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 439
6 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
7 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 579
8 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 868
9 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 1032
10 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 1083
11 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 1120
12 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1226
13 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1335
14 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1467
15 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1605
16 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1707
17 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 1820
18 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1946
19 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 Errol Morris 1961
20 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2805

Gordon Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
4 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
5 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 290
6 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 774
7 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 848
8 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 880
9 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1328
10 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 1411
11 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 Woody Allen 1461
12 Stardust Memories 1980 Woody Allen 2269
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