New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer is one of the annual awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

List of winners

Year	Winner	Cinematographer(s)
1980	Tess	Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth
1981	Chariots of Fire	David Watkin
1982	Sophie's Choice	Néstor Almendros
1983	Zelig	Gordon Willis
1984	The Killing Fields	Chris Menges
1985	Out of Africa	David Watkin
1986	A Room with a View	Tony Pierce-Roberts
1987	The Last Emperor	Vittorio Storaro
1988	Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)	Henri Alekan
1989	Do the Right Thing	Ernest R. Dickerson
1990	The Sheltering Sky	Vittorio Storaro
1991	Barton Fink	Roger Deakins
1992	The Player	Jean Lépin
1993	Schindler's List	Janusz Kamiński
1994	Ed Wood	Stefan Czapsky
1995	Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao)	Lü Yue
1996	Breaking the Waves	Robby Müller
	Dead Man
1997	Kundun	Roger Deakins
1998	The Thin Red Line	John Toll
1999	The Straight Story	Freddie Francis
2000	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Peter Pau
2001	In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa)	Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes and Edward Lachman
2003	Elephant	Harris Savides
	Gerry
2004	Hero (Ying xiong)	Christopher Doyle
2005	2046	Christopher Doyle & Lai Yiu Fai & Kwan Pun Leung
2006	Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)	Guillermo Navarro
2007	There Will Be Blood	Robert Elswit
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Anthony Dod Mantle
2009	The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band)	Christian Berger
2010	Black Swan	Matthew Libatique
2011	The Tree of Life	Emmanuel Lubezki
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Greig Fraser
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Bruno Delbonnel
2014	The Immigrant	Darius Khondji
2015	Carol	Edward Lachman