European Film Award for Best Cinematographer explained

European Film Award for Best Cinematography
Presenter:	European Film Academy
Year:	1989
Holder:	Crystel Fournier – Great Freedom (2021)
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.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Cinematographer(s)	English title	Original title
1989 (1st)	No award given

	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin
	The Cannibals	Os Canibais
1989 (2nd)	Ulf Brantas Jörgen Persson	*The Women on the Roof*	*Kvinnorna på taket*
	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

1990s

Year	Composer(s)	English title	Original title
1990 (3rd)	Tonino Nardi	*Open Doors*	*Porte aperte*
	Cyrano de Bergerac
	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 award given
1994 (6th)
1995 (7th)
1996 (8th)
1997 (9th)	John Seale	*The English Patient*
Tibor Mathé	The Witman Boys	Witman fiúk
	Nil by Mouth
1998 (10th)	Adrian Biddle	*The Butcher Boy*
	Black Cat, White Cat	Црна мачка, бели мачор / Crna mačka, beli mačor
Dany Elsen	The Red Dwarf
	Comedian Harmonists
1999 (11th)	Lajos Koltai	*Sunshine*
*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

2000s

Year	Composer(s)	English title	Original title
2000 (13th) ^[1]	Vittorio Storaro	*Goya in Bordeaux*	*Goya en Bourdeaux*
	The Barracks	Барак
	Beau Travail
Éric Guichard Jean-Paul Meurisse	Himalaya	Himalaya: L'Enfance d'un chef
Edgar Moura	Jaime
	The Wedding	Свадьба / Svadba
2001 (14th) ^[2]	Bruno Delbonnel	*Amélie*	*Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain*
	Intimacy	Intimité
Rein Kotov	The Heart of the Bear	Karu süda
	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) ^[3]	Paweł Edelman	*The Pianist*
Ivan Strasburg	Bloody Sunday
	Talk to Her	Hable con ella
	Heaven
	The Man Without a Past	Mies vailla menneisyyttä
	Grill Point	Halbe Treppe
Tilman Büttner	Russian Ark	Русский ковчег / Russkij Kovcheg
2003 (16th) ^[4]	Anthony Dod Mantle	*Dogville*
*28 Days Later*
	Dirty Pretty Things
Marcel Zyskind	In This World
	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) ^[5]	Eduardo Serra	*Girl with a Pearl Earring*
	Being Julia
	Code 46
	Bad Education	La mala educación
	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro
Andreas Sinanos		Τριλογία: Το λιβάδι που δακρύζει
2005 (18th) ^[6]	Franz Lustig	*Don't Come Knocking*
	Hidden	Caché
	Manderlay
	My Summer of Love
	Fateless	Sorstalanság
	A Very Long Engagement	Un long dimanche de fiançailles
2006 (19th) ^[7]	Barry Ackroyd (tie)	*The Wind that Shakes the Barley*
José Luis Alcaine (tie)	*Volver*
	Lights in the Dusk	Laitakaupungin valot
	Pride & Prejudice
2007 (20th) ^[8]	Frank Griebe	*Perfume: The Story of a Murderer*
	The Banishment	Изгнание / Izgnanie
	The Last King of Scotland
Fabio Zamarion	The Unknown Woman	La sconosciuta
2008 (21st) ^[9]	Marco Onorato	*Gomorrah*	*Gomorra*
	Il Divo
	The Orphanage	El orfanato
	Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan
2009 (22nd) ^[10]	Anthony Dod Mantle	Antichrist (tie)
Slumdog Millionaire (tie)
	The White Ribbon 1	Das weiße Band
Maksim Drozdov Alisher Khamidkhodjaev	Paper Soldier	Bumazhnyy soldat
	A Prophet	Un prophète

2010s

Year	Composer(s)	English title	Original title
2010 (23rd) ^[11]	Giora Bejach	*Lebanon*
	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) ^[12]	Manuel Alberto Claro	*Melancholia*
	The Turin Horse	A torinói ló
	The Artist
Adam Sikora	Essential Killing
2012 (25th) ^[13]	Sean Bobbitt	*Shame*
	Amour
	Faust	Фауст
	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2013 (26th)	Asaf Sudry^[14]	*Fill the Void*	*למלא את החלל - lemale et ha'ḥalal*
2014 (27th)	Łukasz Żal^[15] Ryszard Lenczewski	*Ida*
2015 (28th)	Martin Gschlacht^[16]	*Goodnight Mommy*	*Ich seh, Ich seh*
2016 (29th)	Camilla Hjelm Knudsen^[17]	*Land of Mine*	*Under sandet*
2017 (30th)	Mikhail Krichman^[18]	*Loveless*	*Нелюбовь / Nelyubov*
2018 (31st)	Martin Otterbeck^[19]		*Utøya 22. juli*
2019 (32nd)	Robbie Ryan^[20]	*The Favourite*

2020s

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

Most wins for Best Cinematography by country

Country	Awards	Nominations	Awards (with co-productions)	Nominations (with co-productions)
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		0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0		0
Romania	0
Norway	0	1	0
Bulgaria	0		0
Croatia	0	1	0	1
Czech Republic	0		0
Greece	0	2	0