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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 97
2 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
3 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 496
4 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
5 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 671
6 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 724
7 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 929
8 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 953
9 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
10 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
11 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1870
12 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 2283
13 Le Petit soldat 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 2577

Roger Deakins

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 45
2 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
3 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
4 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
5 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 472
6 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 572
7 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 685
8 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 703
9 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 713
10 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 905
11 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 1090
12 1917 2019 Sam Mendes 1110
13 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1198
14 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1203
15 Sicario 2015 Denis Villeneuve 1362
16 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 1898
17 The Secret Garden 1993 Agnieszka Holland 1938
18 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1977
19 The Reader 2008 Stephen Daldry 2128
20 Doubt 2008 John Patrick Shanley 2176
21 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 2241
22 1984 1984 Michael Radford 2260
23 The Village 2004 M. Night Shyamalan 2390
24 Revolutionary Road 2008 Sam Mendes 2401
25 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2694
26 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen 2858
27 Jarhead 2005 Sam Mendes 3058

Charles Lang

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 388
3 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
4 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 594
5 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1009
6 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
7 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1507
8 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1519
9 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1737
10 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1791
11 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 1858
12 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 2403
13 The Uninvited 1944 Lewis Allen 2410
14 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2766
15 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 2802

Emmanuel Lubezki

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
2 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 371
3 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 462
4 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 773
5 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 879
6 The Birdcage 1996 Mike Nichols 941
7 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1140
8 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 1316
9 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1441
10 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1630
11 A Little Princess 1995 Alfonso Cuarón 2018
12 Burn after Reading 2008 Ethan and Joel Coen 2326
13 Reality Bites 1994 Ben Stiller 2572

Sven Nykvist

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
2 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
3 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 586
4 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 695
5 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 904
6 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 1018
7 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1084
8 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 1202
9 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1400
10 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
11 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
12 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1540
13 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
14 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1845
15 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 1878
16 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2086
17 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2480

Robert Richardson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 262
3 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 268
4 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 404
5 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 411
6 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 445
7 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 638
8 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
9 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 919
10 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 1185
11 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1212
12 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1295
13 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1344
14 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1357
15 Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood 2019 Quentin Tarantino 1456
16 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1558
17 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1704
18 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 2009
19 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 2803

Gordon Willis

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 33
4 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 191
5 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
6 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 916
7 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
8 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 1035
9 Zelig 1983 Woody Allen 1493
10 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 1587
11 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 Woody Allen 2395
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