Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My choices for the best cinematography of each year featuring the music "Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone.
1919 - The Oyster Princess
1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 - The Phantom Carriage
1922 - Nosferatu
1923 - The Faithful Heart
1924 - Greed
1925 - Battleship Potemkin
1926 - Faust
1927 - Metropolis
1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 - The Man with a Movie Camera
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 - Dracula
1932 - Shanghai Express
1933 - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934 - The Scarlet Empress
1935 - Anna Karenina
1936 - Sabotage
1937 - Grand Illusion
1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 - Gone with the Wind
1940 - Rebecca
1941 - Sullivan's Travels
1942 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 - Gaslight
1945 - Brief Encounter
1946 - Beauty and the Beast
1947 - Black Narcissus
1948 - The Red Shoes
1949 - The Third Man
1950 - Sunset Blvd.
1951 - Strangers on a Train
1952 - Singin’ in the Rain
1953 - I Confess
1954 - Seven Samurai
1955 - All That Heaven Allows
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - Nights of Cabiria
1958 - Ashes and Diamonds
1959 - Compulsion
1960 - The Virgin Spring
1961 - The Innocents
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - The Leopard
1964 - Red Desert
1965 - Repulsion
1966 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967 - In Cold Blood
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - The Damned
1970 - The Conformist
1971 - Fiddler on the Roof
1972 - The New Land
1973 - The Holy Mountain
1974 - Phantom of the Paradise
1975 - Barry Lyndon
1976 - Heart of Glass
1977 - The Duellists
1978 - Days of Heaven
1979 - Alien
1980 - The Elephant Man
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Koyaanisqatsi
1983 - City of Pirates
1984 - Paris, Texas
1985 - Legend
1986 - The Mission
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - The Bear
1989 - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1990 - An Angel at my Table
1991 - The Double Life of Veronique
1992 - Baraka
1993 - The Piano
1994 - Heavenly Creatures
1995 - Braveheart
1996 - Hamlet
1997 - Titanic
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1999 - Sleepy Hollow
2000 - In the Mood for Love
2001 - The Man Who Wasn't There
2002 - Road to Perdition
2003 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 - A Very Long Engagement
2005 - The New World
2006 - Pan’s Labyrinth
2007 - There Will be Blood
2008 - The Fall
2009 - The White Ribbon
2010 - Mysteries of Lisbon
2011 - The Tree of Life
2012 - The Master
2013 - Gravity
2014 - Birdman
2015 - Max Max: Fury Road
2016 - The Neon Demon
2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Mandy
2019 - The Lighthouse
My choices for the best cinematography of each year featuring the music "Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone.
1919 - The Oyster Princess
1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 - The Phantom Carriage
1922 - Nosferatu
1923 - The Faithful Heart
1924 - Greed
1925 - Battleship Potemkin
1926 - Faust
1927 - Metropolis
1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 - The Man with a Movie Camera
1930 - All Quiet on the Western Front
1931 - Dracula
1932 - Shanghai Express
1933 - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934 - The Scarlet Empress
1935 - Anna Karenina
1936 - Sabotage
1937 - Grand Illusion
1938 - The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 - Gone with the Wind
1940 - Rebecca
1941 - Sullivan's Travels
1942 - The Magnificent Ambersons
1943 - Shadow of a Doubt
1944 - Gaslight
1945 - Brief Encounter
1946 - Beauty and the Beast
1947 - Black Narcissus
1948 - The Red Shoes
1949 - The Third Man
1950 - Sunset Blvd.
1951 - Strangers on a Train
1952 - Singin’ in the Rain
1953 - I Confess
1954 - Seven Samurai
1955 - All That Heaven Allows
1956 - The Searchers
1957 - Nights of Cabiria
1958 - Ashes and Diamonds
1959 - Compulsion
1960 - The Virgin Spring
1961 - The Innocents
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1963 - The Leopard
1964 - Red Desert
1965 - Repulsion
1966 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967 - In Cold Blood
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969 - The Damned
1970 - The Conformist
1971 - Fiddler on the Roof
1972 - The New Land
1973 - The Holy Mountain
1974 - Phantom of the Paradise
1975 - Barry Lyndon
1976 - Heart of Glass
1977 - The Duellists
1978 - Days of Heaven
1979 - Alien
1980 - The Elephant Man
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - Koyaanisqatsi
1983 - City of Pirates
1984 - Paris, Texas
1985 - Legend
1986 - The Mission
1987 - The Last Emperor
1988 - The Bear
1989 - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1990 - An Angel at my Table
1991 - The Double Life of Veronique
1992 - Baraka
1993 - The Piano
1994 - Heavenly Creatures
1995 - Braveheart
1996 - Hamlet
1997 - Titanic
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1999 - Sleepy Hollow
2000 - In the Mood for Love
2001 - The Man Who Wasn't There
2002 - Road to Perdition
2003 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004 - A Very Long Engagement
2005 - The New World
2006 - Pan’s Labyrinth
2007 - There Will be Blood
2008 - The Fall
2009 - The White Ribbon
2010 - Mysteries of Lisbon
2011 - The Tree of Life
2012 - The Master
2013 - Gravity
2014 - Birdman
2015 - Max Max: Fury Road
2016 - The Neon Demon
2017 - Blade Runner 2049
2018 - Mandy
2019 - The Lighthouse
