The annually awarded BSC Best Cinematography Award was inaugurated in 1953. The first recipient being Oswald Morris BSC for John Huston’s Moulin Rouge. The golden camera award was designed by award winning production designer Ken Adam. The winners were originally inscribed on the base of the Society’s Golden Camera, an incredibly detailed model of the celebrated Mitchell NC mounted on a tripod which was constructed in George Ashworth’s machine shop within the camera department at Denham Studios in 1950. It can be viewed in the main reception at Pinewood where it is on permanent display; the BSC Honour Boards listing names of all BSC Award winners are sited in the corridor nearby which leads to Pinewood ballroom.
2011
Guillaume Schiffman AFC
The Artist
2010
Roger Deakins ASC BSC
True Grit
2009
Barry Ackroyd BSC
The Hurt Locker
2008
Roger Deakins ASC, BSC
No Country for Old Men
2007
Roger Deakins ASC BSC
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2006
Phil Mèheux BSC
Casino Royale
2005
John Mathieson BSC
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
No award given changeover of voting period
2003
Russell Boyd ACS, ASC
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
2002
Conrad Hall ASC
Road to Perdition
2001
Roger Deakins ASC BSC
The Man Who Wasn’t There
2000
Roger Deakins ASC, BSC
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1999
Conrad L. Hall ASC
American Beauty
1998
Remi Adefarasin BSC
Elizabeth
1997
Dante Spinotti, AIC
L.A. Confidential
1996
Alex Thomson BSC
Hamlet
1995
Andrew Dunn BSC
The Madness of King George
1994
Philippe Rousselot AFC
Interview with the Vampire
1993
Janus Kaminski
Schindlers List
1992
Tony Pierce Roberts BSC
Howards End
1991
Pierre L’Homme AFC
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
Freddie Francis BSC
Glory
1989
Peter Biziou BSC
Mississippi Burning
1988
Vittorio Storaro AIC
The Last Emperor
1987
Philippe Rousselot AFC
Hope and Glory
1986
David Watkin
Out of Africa
1985
Alex Thomson, BSC
Legend
1984
Chris Menges BSC
The Killing Fields
1983
Sven Nykvist
Fanny and Alexandra
1982
Billy Williams BSC & Ronnie Taylor BSC
Gandhi
1981
Freddie Francis BSC
French Lieutenants Woman
1980
Freddie Francis BSC
The Elephant Man (BW)
1979
Billy Williams BSC
Eagle’s Wing
1978
Douglas Slocombe BSC
Julia
1977
Geoffrey Unsworth BSC
A Bridge Too Far
1976
Gil Taylor BSC
The Omen
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
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
Douglas Slocombe BSC
The Servant (BW)
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
1954
Robert Krasker BSC
Romeo and Juliet
1953
Ossie Morris BSC
Moulin Rouge
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