The BSC Best Cinematography Award and Nominations
| 2010 | Roger Deakins ASC BSC |
True Grit |
| Matthew Libatique ASC | Black Swan | |
| Wally Pfister ASC | Inception | |
| 2009 | Barry Ackroyd BSC |
The Hurt Locker |
| Christian Berger AAC | The White Ribbon | |
| John de Borman BSC | An Education | |
| Roger Deakins BSC ASC/Chris Menges BSC ASC | The Reader | |
| Bruno Delbonnel AFC ASC | Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince | |
| Anthony Dod Mantle BSC | Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Mauro Fiore ASC | Avatar | |
| Claudio Miranda ASC | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | |
| 2008 | Roger Deakins ASC, BSC | ‘No Country for Old Men’ |
| Robert Elswit ASC | ‘There will be Blood’ | |
| Wally Pfister ASC | ‘The Dark Knight’ | |
| Tom Stern ASC, AFC | ‘Changeling’ | |
| Janusz Kaminski | ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ | |
| 2007 | Roger Deakins ASC BSC | Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford |
| Remi Adefarasin BSC | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | |
| Seamus McGarvey BSC | Atonement | |
| Dick Pope BSC | The Illusionist | |
| Rodrigo Prieto ASC | Babel | |
| Peter Suschitzky BSC | Eastern Promise | |
| 2006 | Phil Mèheux BSC |
Casino Royale |
| Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS | Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| Emmanuel Lubezki ASC | Children of Men | |
| José Luis Alcaine AEC | Volver | |
| Guillermo Navarro, ASC, AMC | Laberinto del fauno, El | |
| Wally Pfister ASC | The Prestige | |
| 2005 | John Mathieson BSC |
The Phantom of the Opera |
| Andrew Dunn BSC | Mrs. Henderson Presents | |
| César Charlone ABC | The Constant Gardener | |
| Wally Pfister ASC | Batman Begins | |
| Roger Pratt BSC | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |
| 2003 | Russell Boyd ACS, ASC | Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| Andrew Leslie ACS | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | |
| John Seale ACS ASC | Cold Mountain | |
| Eduardo Serra AFC, ASC | Girl with a Pearl Earring | |
| 2002 | Conrad Hall ASC |
Road to Perdition |
| Pawel Edelman PSC | The Pianist | |
| Dion Beebe ACS | Chicago | |
| Andrew Lesnie ACS | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | |
| Chris Menges BSC | Dirty Pretty Things | |
| 2001 | Roger Deakins ASC BSC | The Man Who Wasn’t There |
| Bruno Delbonnel | Amelie | |
| Andrew Dunn, BSC | Gosford Park | |
| Andrew Lesnie | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| Donald McAlpine | Moulin Rouge | |
| 2000 | Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC | O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| Peter Pau | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |
| Roger Pratt, BSC | Chocolat | |
| Robert Fraisse | Enemy at the Gates | |
| Steven Soderbergh | Traffic | |
| 1999 | Conrad L. Hall, ASC | American Beauty |
| Emmanuel Lubezki | Sleepy Hollow | |
| John Mathieson, BSC | Gladiator | |
| Roger Pratt, BSC | The End of the Affair | |
| Robert Richardson, ASC | Snow Falling on Cedars | |
| 1998 | Remi Adefarasin, BSC |
Elizabeth |
| Janusz Kaminski, ASC | Saving Private Ryan | |
| Richard Greatrex, BSC | Shakespeare in Lovw | |
| Peter Biziou, BSC | The Truman Show | |
| John Toll, ASC | The Thin Red Line | |
| 1997 | Dante Spinotti, AIC |
L.A. Confidential |
| Robert Richardson, ASC | The Horse Whisperer | |
| Nic Morris, BSC | Firelight | |
| Russell Carpenter, ASC | Titanic | |
| Eduardo Serra, AFC | The Wings of the Dove | |
| 1996 | Alex Thomson, BSC |
Hamlet |
| Darius Khondji | Evita | |
| Chris Menges, BSC | Michael Collins | |
| John Seale | The English Patient | |
| 1995 | Andrew Dunn, BSC |
The Madness of King George |
| Dean Cundey | Apollo 13 | |
| Peter Biziou, BSC | Richard III | |
| Michael Coulter, BSC | Sense and Sensibility | |
| Darius Khondji | Seven | |
| 1994 | Philippe Rousselot AFC | Interview With a Vampire |
| Roger Pratt, BSC | Frankenstein | |
| Roger Deakins, BSC | Hudsucker Proxy | |
| Michael Coulter BSC | Four Weddings and a Funeral | |
| Peter Biziou, BSC | The Road to Welville | |
| 1993 | Janus Kaminski | Schindlers List |
| Stuart Dryberg | The Piano | |
| Roger Pratt, BSC | Shadowlands | |
| 1992 | Tony Pierce Roberts BSC | Howards End |
| Sven Nykvist ASC | Chaplin | |
| Dante Spinotti, AIC | The Last of the Mohicans | |
| Adrian Biddle, BSC | 1492: Conquest of Paradise | |
| 1991 | Pierre L’Homme, AFC | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Dean Semler | Dances With Wolves | |
| Adam Greenberg, ASC | Terminator II | |
| Adrian Biddle, BSC | Thelma and Louise | |
| 1990 | Freddie Francis BSC | Glory |
| Vittorio Storaro AIC | Dick Tracy | |
| Martin Balhaus, ASC | Goodfellas | |
| David Watkin | Memphis Belle | |
| 1989 | Peter Biziou BSC |
Mississippi Burning |
| John Seale, ASC | Dead Poets Society | |
| Philippe Rousselot AFC | Dangerous Liaisons | |
| Alan Hume, BSC | Shirley Valentine | |
| 1988 | Vittorio Storaro AIC |
The Last Emperor |
| Peter Hannan BSC | A Handful of Dust | |
| Dean Cundy | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | |
| Sven Nykvist | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | |
| 1987 | Philippe Rousselot AFC |
Hope and Glory |
| Bruno Nuttyen | Jean de Florette | |
| 1986 | David Watkin |
Out of Africa |
| Chris Menges, BSC | The Mission | |
| Allen Daviau | The Color Purple | |
| Tony Pierce Roberts | A Room With a View | |
| 1985 | Alex Thomson BSC |
Legend |
| Miroslav Ondricek | Amadeus | |
| Ernest Day, BSC | A Passage to India | |
| John Seale | Witness | |
| 1984 | Chris Menges BSC | The Killing Fields |
| Walter Lassally, BSC | The Bostonians | |
| John Alcott, BSC | Greystoke – Lord of the Apes | |
| Douglas Slocombe, BSC | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | |
| Arthur Ibbetson BSC | The Bounty | |
| 1983 | Sven Nykvist |
Fanny and Alexandra |
| Alex Thomson BSC | Eureka | |
| 1982 | Billy Williams BSC/ |
Gandhi |
| Ronnie Taylor BSC | ||
| Jordan Cronenweth | Blade Runner | |
| Billy Williams, BSC* | On Golden Pond | |
| Dick Bush, BSC | Victor Victoria | |
| 1981 | Freddie Francis BSC |
French Lieutenants Woman |
| David Watkin | Chariots of Fire | |
| Alex Thomson, BSC | Excalibur | |
| Richard Ciupka | Atlantic City | |
| Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC/Ghislain Cloquet | Tess | |
| 1980 | Freddie Francis BSC |
The Elephant Man |
| Caleb Deschanel | The Black Stallion | |
| Gil Taylor, BSC | Flash Gordon | |
| 1979 | Billy Williams, BSC | Eagles Wing |
| Vittorio Storaro | Apocolypse Now | |
| Derek Vanlint | Alien | |
| Nestor Almendros | Days of Heaven | |
| 1978 | Douglas Slocombe BSC | Julia |
| Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC | First Great Train Robbery | |
| Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC | Superman | |
| Frank Tidy BSC | The Duellists | |
| 1977 | Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC | A Bridge Too Far |
| Gil Taylor, BSC | Star Wars | |
| Peter Suschitzky, BSC | Valentino | |
| 1976 | Gil Taylor BSC | The Omen |
| Conrad Hall | Marathon Man | |
| Gerry Fisher BSC | Aces High | |
| Russell Boyd | Picnic At Hanging Rock | |
| 1975 | John Alcott, BSC | Barry Lyndon |
| 1974 | Douglas Slocombe, BSC | The Great Gatsby |
| 1973 | Douglas Slocombe, BSC | Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1972 | Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC | Cabaret |
| 1971 | Ossie Morris, BSC | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1970 | Freddie Young, BSC | Ryan’s Daughter |
| 1969 | Gerry Turpin, BSC | Oh What a Lovely War |
| 1968 | Douglas Slocombe, BSC | The Lion in Winter |
| 1967 | Ossie Morris, BSC | The Taming of the Shrew |
| 1966 | Freddie Young, BSC | Dr. Zhivago (Colour) |
| Ossie Morris, BSC | The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (BW) | |
| 1965 | Skeets Kelly, BSC | for 2nd unit photography |
| 1964 | Geoff Unsworth, BSC | Becket |
| 1963 | Ted Moore, BSC | From Russia With Love (Colour) |
| Douglas Slocombe, BSC | The Servant (B/W) | |
| 1962 | Freddie Young, BSC | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1961 | Robert Krasker, BSC | El Cid |
| 1960 | Freddie Francis, BSC | Sons and Lovers |
| 1959 | Harry Waxman, BSC | Sapphire |
| 1958 | Jack Hildyard, BSC | The Bridge On The River Kwai |
| 1957 | No Award given | |
| 1956 | Jack Cardiff, BSC | War and Peace |
| Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC | A Town Like Alice | |
| Freddie Young, BSC | Bhowani Junction | |
| Freddie Young, BSC | Invitation To the Dance | |
| Oswald Morris, BSC | Moby Dick | |
| 1954 | Robert Krasker, BSC | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1953 | Ossie Morris, BSC | Moulin Rouge |


