European Film Award for Best Cinematographer

European Film Award for Best Cinematography
European Film Award for Best Cinematography
Country	Europe
Presented by	European Film Academy
First award	1989
Currently held by	Benjamin Kračun – The Substance (2024)
Website	europeanfilmawards.eu

The European Film Award for Best Cinematographer, also known as Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award, is an award given to cinematographers working in the motion picture industry by the European Film Academy.

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Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title
1989 (1st)	No award given
	Nomination for Special Aspect Award
	Henri Alekan	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin
	Mário Barroso	The Cannibals	Os Canibais
1989 (2nd)	Ulf Brantas Jörgen Persson	The Women on the Roof	Kvinnorna på taket
	Krzysztof Ptak	300 Miles to Heaven	300 mil do nieba
	Yefim Reznik	Little Vera	Ма́ленькая Ве́ра / Malenkaya Vera
	Sándor Kardos	The Midas Touch	Eldorádó
	Giorgos Arvanitis	Landscape in the Mist	Τοπίο στην ομίχλη / Topio stin omichli

Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title
1990 (3rd)	Tonino Nardi	Open Doors	Porte aperte
	Pierre Lhomme	Cyrano de Bergerac
	Göran Nilsson	The Guardian Angel	Skyddsängeln
1991 (4th)	Walther van den Ende	Toto the Hero	Toto le héros
1992 (5th)	Jean-Yves Escoffier	The Lovers on the Bridge	Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
1993 (5th)	No awards given
1994 (6th)
1995 (7th)
1996 (8th)
1997 (9th)	John Seale	The English Patient
	Tibor Mathé	The Witman Boys	Witman fiúk
	Ron Fortunato	Nil by Mouth
1998 (10th)	Adrian Biddle	The Butcher Boy
	Thierry Arbogast	Black Cat, White Cat	Црна мачка, бели мачор / Crna mačka, beli mačor
	Dany Elsen	The Red Dwarf
	Joseph Vilsmaier	Comedian Harmonists
1999 (11th)	Lajos Koltai	Sunshine
	Lajos Koltai	The Legend of 1900	La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano
	Yves Cape	Humanité	L'humanité
	Alexei Fyodorov Anatoli Rodinov	Moloch	Молох
	Jacek Petrycki	Journey to the Sun	Güneşe Yolculuk

Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title	Ref.
2000 (13th)	Vittorio Storaro	Goya in Bordeaux	Goya en Bourdeaux	^[1]
	Yuri Klimenko	The Barracks	Барак
	Agnès Godard	Beau Travail
	Éric Guichard Jean-Paul Meurisse	Himalaya	Himalaya: L'Enfance d'un chef
	Edgar Moura	Jaime
	Aleksandr Burov	The Wedding	Свадьба / Svadba
2001 (14th)	Bruno Delbonnel	Amélie	Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain	^[2]
	Éric Gautier	Intimacy	Intimité'
	Rein Kotov	The Heart of the Bear	Karu süda
	Frank Griebe	The Princess and the Warrior	Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
	Fabio Olmi	The Profession of Arms	Il mestiere delle armi
	Tamás Babos	Paszport
2002 (15th)	Paweł Edelman	The Pianist		^[3]
	Ivan Strasburg	Bloody Sunday
	Javier Aguirresarobe	Talk to Her	Hable con ella
	Frank Griebe	Heaven
	Timo Salminen	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä
	Alwin H. Küchler	Grill Point	Halbe Treppe
	Tilman Büttner	Russian Ark	Русский ковчег / Russkij Kovcheg
2003 (16th)	Anthony Dod Mantle	Dogville		^[4]
	Anthony Dod Mantle	28 Days Later
	Chris Menges	Dirty Pretty Things
	Marcel Zyskind	In This World
	Italo Petriccione	I'm Not Scared	Io non ho paura
	Bogumił Godfrejów	Distant Lights	Lichter
	Tom Fährmann	The Miracle of Bern	Das Wunder von Bern
2004 (17th)	Eduardo Serra	Girl with a Pearl Earring		^[5]
	Lajos Koltai	Being Julia
	Alwin H. Küchler	Code 46
	José Luis Alcaine	Bad Education	La mala educación
	Javier Aguirresarobe	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro
	Andreas Sinanos	Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow	Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει
2005 (18th)	Franz Lustig	Don't Come Knocking		^[6]
	Christian Berger	Hidden	Caché
	Anthony Dod Mantle	Manderlay
	Ryszard Lenczewski	My Summer of Love
	Gyula Pados	Fateless	Sorstalanság
	Bruno Delbonnel	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2006 (19th)	Barry Ackroyd (tie)	The Wind that Shakes the Barley		^[7]
	José Luis Alcaine (tie)	Volver
	Timo Salminen	Lights in the Dusk	Laitakaupungin valot
	Roman Osin	Pride & Prejudice
2007 (20th)	Frank Griebe	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer		^[8]
	Mikhail Krichman	The Banishment	Изгнание / Izgnanie
	Anthony Dod Mantle	The Last King of Scotland
	Fabio Zamarion	The Unknown Woman	La sconosciuta
2008 (21st)	Marco Onorato	Gomorrah	Gomorra	^[9]
	Luca Bigazzi	Il Divo
	Oscar Faura	The Orphanage	El orfanato
	Sergey Trofimov Rogier Stoffers	Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan
2009 (22nd)	Anthony Dod Mantle	Antichrist		^[10]
	Anthony Dod Mantle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Christian Berger	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band
	Maksim Drozdov Alisher Khamidkhodjaev	Paper Soldier	Bumazhnyy soldat
	Stéphane Fontaine	A Prophet	Un prophète

Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title	Ref.
2010 (23rd)	Giora Bejach	Lebanon		^[11]
	Caroline Champetier	Of Gods and Men	Des hommes et des dieux
	Pavel Kostomarov	How I Ended This Summer	Как я провёл этим летом / Kak ya provyol etim letom
	Barış Özbiçer	Honey	Bal
2011 (24th)	Manuel Alberto Claro	Melancholia		^[12]
	Fred Kelemen	The Turin Horse	A torinói ló
	Guillaume Schiffman	The Artist
	Adam Sikora	Essential Killing
2012 (25th)	Sean Bobbitt	Shame		^[13]
	Darius Khondji	Amour
	Bruno Delbonnel	Faust	Фауст
	Gökhan Tiryaki	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
	Hoyte van Hoytema	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2013 (26th)	Asaf Sudry	Fill the Void	למלא את החלל - lemale et ha'ḥalal	^[14]
2014 (27th)	Łukasz Żal Ryszard Lenczewski	Ida		^[15]
2015 (28th)	Martin Gschlacht	Goodnight Mommy	Ich seh, Ich seh	^[16]
2016 (29th)	Camilla Hjelm Knudsen	Land of Mine	Under sandet	^[17]
2017 (30th)	Mikhail Krichman	Loveless	Нелюбовь / Nelyubov	^[18]
2018 (31st)	Martin Otterbeck	Utøya: July 22	Utøya 22. juli	^[19]
2019 (32nd)	Robbie Ryan	The Favourite		^[20]

Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title	Ref.
2020 (33rd)	Matteo Cocco	Hidden Away	Volevo nascondermi	^[21]
2021 (34th)	Crystel Fournier	Great Freedom	Große Freiheit	^[22]
2022 (35th)	Kate McCullough	The Quiet Girl	An Cailín Ciúin
2023 (36th)	Rasmus Videbæk	The Promised Land	Bastarden
2024 (37th)	Benjamin Kračun	The Substance		^[23]

European Film Award for Best Cinematographer

Winners and nominees

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2010s

2020s

Most wins for Best Cinematography by country

See also

References

External links

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Country	Awards	Nominations
France	1	10
United Kingdom	6	4
Spain	1	4
Denmark	2	1
Netherlands		2
Belgium	1	1
Israel	2
Germany	1	7
Italy	4	4
Hungary	1	6
Ireland	2
Poland	2	4
Russia	1	6
Finland		2
Ukraine
Austria	1	2
Sweden	1	1
Turkey	0
Soviet Union	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
Romania	0
Norway	0	1
Bulgaria	0
Croatia	0	1
Czech Republic	0
Greece	0	2