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Top Films from Selected Cinematographers

Includes people credited as directors of photography.

Néstor Almendros

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 297
2 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
3 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 805
4 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 823
5 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1304
6 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton 1350
7 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 1636
8 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1739
9 Love on the Run 1979 François Truffaut 2229
10 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut 2306
11 La Collectionneuse 1967 Eric Rohmer 2348
12 The Story of Adele H. 1975 François Truffaut 2362

Raoul Coutard

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
2 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 168
3 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 422
4 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 489
5 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 551
6 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 613
7 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 658
8 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 699
9 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1028
10 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 1127
11 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1347
12 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1882
13 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1931

James Wong Howe

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
2 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
3 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
4 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
5 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 724
6 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 785
7 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 1122
8 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1457
9 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell 1519
10 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 1775
11 Kings Row 1942 Sam Wood 2160

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 318
3 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 566
4 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 638
5 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
6 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1059
7 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1177
8 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 1278
9 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1307
10 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1513
11 How the West Was Won 1962 John Ford, Henry Hathaway, and George Marshall 1625
12 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 1765
13 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 John Sturges 1939
14 The Man from Laramie 1955 Anthony Mann 2205

Sven Nykvist

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
2 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 276
3 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 443
4 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 503
5 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 652
6 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 958
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman 979
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1110
9 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1199
10 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1266
11 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1326
12 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1473
13 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1585
14 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1911
15 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 1951
16 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 2014
17 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 2035
18 Chaplin 1992 Richard Attenborough 2072

Robert Richardson

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 351
3 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
4 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 488
5 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 674
6 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 701
7 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 759
8 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 781
9 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1120
10 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1183
11 Wag the Dog 1997 Barry Levinson 1261
12 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 Errol Morris 1279
13 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 1349
14 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1460
15 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1495
16 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 1738
17 City of Hope 1991 John Sayles 1836
18 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2164
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