| Lumières Award for Best Cinematography | |
| Presenter: | Académie des Lumières |
| Country: | France |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Holder: | Jonathan Ricquebourg for The Taste of Things (2024) |
The Lumières Award for Best Cinematography (French: Prix Lumières de la meilleure image), formerly known as the Prix de la meilleure photographie or the Prix technique CST de la meilleure photographie (until 2015), is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2008.
Winners are listed first with a blue background, followed by the other nominees.
| Year | Winner | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 (13th) | Éric Gautier | Into the Wild | |
| 2009 (14th) | Agnès Godard | Home | |
| Year | Winner | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (15th) | Glynn Speeckaert | In the Beginning | À l'origine |
| 2011 (16th) | Caroline Champetier | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux |
| 2012 (17th) | Pierre Aïm | Polisse | |
| 2013 (18th) | Antoine Heberlé | Inheritance | Héritage |
| A Few Hours of Spring | Quelques heures de printemps | ||
| 2014 (19th) | Thomas Hardmeier | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | L'Extravagant Voyage du jeune et prodigieux T. S. Spivet |
| The French Minister | Quai d'Orsay | ||
| Mood Indigo | L'Écume des jours | ||
| A Place on Earth | Une place sur la Terre | ||
| Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un Indien des plaines) | |||
| 2015 (20th) | À la vie | ||
| Wild Life | Vie sauvage | ||
| Saint Laurent | |||
| Timbuktu | |||
| Magic in the Moonlight | |||
| Respire | |||
| 2016 (21st) | |||
| Mustang | |||
| The Anarchists | Les Anarchistes | ||
| I Am a Soldier | Je suis un soldat | ||
| L'Affaire SK1 | |||
| My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | ||
| The Last Hammer Blow | Le Dernier Coup de marteau | ||
| Mon roi | |||
| Two Friends | Les Deux Amis | ||
| Cowboys | Les Cowboys | ||
| The Wakhan Front | Ni le ciel ni la terre | ||
| 2017 (22nd) | |||
| Jonathan Ricquebourg | The Death of Louis XIV | La Mort de Louis XIV | |
| Christophe Beaucarne | From the Land of the Moon | Mal de pierres | |
| The Dancer | La Danseuse | ||
| A Woman's Life | Une vie | ||
| Nocturama | |||
| Frantz | |||
| 2018 (23rd) | |||
| Christophe Beaucarne | Barbara | ||
| Félicité | |||
| The Guardians | Les Gardiennes | ||
| The Sower | Le Semeur | ||
| Ismael's Ghosts | Les Fantômes d'Ismaël | ||
| See You Up There | Au revoir là-haut | ||
| 2019 (24th) | |||
| Benoît Debie | The Sisters Brothers | Les Frères Sisters | |
| Climax | |||
| Lady J | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | ||
| Julien Hirsch | One Nation, One King | Un peuple et son roi | |
| To the Ends of the World | Les Confins du monde | ||
| Year | Winner | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (25th) | |||
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | ||
| By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | ||
| An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | ||
| Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière | ||
| Les Misérables | |||
| 2021 (26th) | |||
| Summer of 85 | Été 85 | ||
| The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes | ||
| Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les Choses qu'on fait | ||
| Slalom | |||
| Two of Us | Deux | ||
| 2022 (27th) | |||
| Annette | |||
| Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | ||
| The Swarm | La Nuée | ||
| Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | |||
| Happening | L'Événement | ||
| 2023 (28th) | |||
| Pacifiction | Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles | ||
| The Passengers of the Night | Les Passagers de la nuit | ||
| Vortex | |||
| The Night of the 12th | La Nuit du 12 | ||
| Saint Omer | |||
| 2024 (29th) | |||
| The Taste of Things | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant | ||
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | ||
| The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | ||
| Disco Boy | |||
| Sons of Ramses | Goutte d'or | ||