Satellite Award for Best Cinematography

The Satellite Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Cinematographer(s)
1996	The English Patient	John Seale
	Breaking the Waves	Robby Muller
	Evita	Darius Khondji
	Hamlet	Alex Thomson
	Romeo + Juliet	Donald M. McAlpine
1997	Amistad	Janusz Kamiński
	Contact	Don Burgess
	Eve's Bayou	Amy Vincent
	L.A. Confidential	Dante Spinotti
	Titanic	Russell Carpenter
1998	The Thin Red Line	John Toll
	Beloved	Tak Fujimoto
	Pleasantville	John Lindley
	Saving Private Ryan	Janusz Kamiński
	Shakespeare in Love	Richard Greatrex
1999	Sleepy Hollow	Emmanuel Lubezki
	American Beauty	Conrad L. Hall
	Anna and the King	Caleb Deschanel
	Eyes Wide Shut	Larry Smith
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Robert Richardson
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	John Seale

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Cinematographer(s)
2000	Gladiator	John Mathieson
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Peter Pau
	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Michael Ballhaus
	Mission: Impossible II	Jeffrey L. Kimball
	Traffic	Peter Andrews
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Roger Deakins
	Hearts in Atlantis	Piotr Sobocinski
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Andrew Lesnie
	Moulin Rouge!	Donald M. McAlpine
	Pearl Harbor	John Schwartzman
2002	Road to Perdition	Conrad L. Hall
	Far from Heaven	Edward Lachman
	Gangs of New York	Michael Ballhaus
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Andrew Lesnie
	Minority Report	Janusz Kamiński
2003	The Last Samurai	John Toll
	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Eduardo Serra
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Andrew Lesnie
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	Russell Boyd and Sandi Sissel
	Mystic River	Tom Stern
	Seabiscuit	John Schwartzman
2004	House of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu)	Xiaoding Zhao
	The Aviator	Robert Richardson
	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events	Emmanuel Lubezki
	The Phantom of the Opera	John Mathieson
	Spider-Man 2	Bill Pope and Anette Haellmigk
	A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)	Bruno Delbonnel
2005	The Constant Gardener	César Charlone
	2046	Christopher Doyle
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Philippe Rousselot
	Good Night, and Good Luck	Robert Elswit
	Kung Fu Hustle (Kung fu)	Hang-Sang Poon
	Memoirs of a Geisha	Dion Beebe
	Sin City	Robert Rodriguez
2006	Flags of Our Fathers	Tom Stern
	The Black Dahlia	Vilmos Zsigmond
	Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)	Zhao Xiaoding
	The Fountain	Matthew Libatique
	A Good Year	Philippe Le Sourd
	The House of Sand (Casa de areia)	Ricardo Della Rosa
	X-Men: The Last Stand	Dante Spinotti
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)	Janusz Kamiński
	Across the Universe	Bruno Delbonnel
	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Roger Deakins
	The Golden Compass	Henry Braham
	There Will Be Blood	Robert Elswit
	Zodiac	Harris Savides
2008	Australia	Mandy Walker
	Brideshead Revisited	Jess Hall
	Changeling	Tom Stern
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Claudio Miranda
	The Duchess	Gyula Pados
	Snow Angels	Tim Orr
2009	Nine	Dion Beebe
	Inglourious Basterds	Robert Richardson
	It Might Get Loud	Guillermo Navarro and Erich Roland
	Public Enemies	Dante Spinotti
	Red Cliff (Chi bi)	Lü Yue and Zhang Li
	A Serious Man	Roger Deakins

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Cinematographer(s)
2010	Inception	Wally Pfister
	127 Hours	Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1	Eduardo Serra
	I Am Love	Yorick Le Saux
	Salt	Robert Elswit
	Secretariat	Dean Semler
	Shutter Island	Robert Richardson
	Unstoppable	Ben Seresin
2011	War Horse	Janusz Kamiński
	The Artist	Guillaume Schiffman
	Drive	Newton Thomas Sigel
	Faust	Bruno Delbonnel
	Hugo	Robert Richardson
	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki
2012	Life of Pi	Claudio Miranda
	Anna Karenina	Seamus McGarvey
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Ben Richardson
	Lincoln	Janusz Kamiński
	The Master	Mihai Mălaimare Jr.
	Skyfall	Roger Deakins
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
	12 Years a Slave	Sean Bobbitt
	Gravity	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Prisoners	Roger Deakins
	Rush	Anthony Dod Mantle
	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Stuart Dryburgh
2014	Mr. Turner	Dick Pope
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Gone Girl	Jeff Cronenweth
	Inherent Vice	Robert Elswit
	Interstellar	Hoyte van Hoytema
	The Theory of Everything	Benoît Delhomme
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	John Seale
	Bridge of Spies	Janusz Kamiński
	The Martian	Dariusz Wolski
	The Revenant	Emmanuel Lubezki
	Sicario	Roger Deakins
	Spectre	Hoyte van Hoytema