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Best Cinematographers

apursan​sar

almost 4 years ago

My personal Top 20:

1. Sven Nykvist (Cries and Whispers/Fanny and Alexander/The Sacrifice)

2. Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon/Ugetsu/Sansho the Bailiff)

3. Gianni Di Venanzo (The Outcry/The Eclipse/8 ½)

4. Vadim Yusov (Ivan´s Childhood/Andrei Rublev/Solaris)

5. Sacha Vierny (Hiroshima mon amour/Last Year at Marienbad/Belle de Jour)

6. Yuuharu Atsuta (Late Spring/Tokyo Story/An Autumn Afternoon)

7. Georgi Rerberg (Uncle Vanya/Mirror/Stalker)

8. Vittorio Storaro (The Conformist/Apocalypse Now/The Last Emperor)

9. Ghislain Cloquet (Au hazard Balthazar/Mouchette/Tess)

10. Azakazu Nakai (Seven Samurai/Red Beard/Ran)

11. Christopher Doyle (Fallen Angels/In the Mood for Love/Hero)

12. Subrata Mitra (Pather Panchali/The World of Apu/Charulata)

13. Gunnar Fischer (The Seventh Seal/Wild Strawberries/The Magician)

14. Giorgos Arvanitis (The Travelling Players/Alexander the Great/Landscape in the Mist)

15. Gábor Medvigy (Damnation/Sátántangó/Werckmeister Harmonies)

16. Gu Changwei (The King of Children/In the Heat of the Sun/Devils on the Doorstep)

17. Yoshio Miyajima (The Human Condition/Harakiri/Kwaidan)

18. Mark Lee (The Puppetmaster/Flowers of Shanghai/At the Height of Summer)

19. Raoul Coutard (Breathless/Jules and Jim/The Contempt)

20. Hiroshi Segawa (The Pitfall/Woman in the Dunes/Face of Another)

Mikel Guillen

almost 4 years ago

Sacha Vierny with bunuel and Greenaway

Pablo Arellan​o

almost 4 years ago

Sven Nykvist

Christopher Doyle

Roger Deakins

Gunnar Fischer

Harry Long

almost 4 years ago

>>Post you favourites and be done with it.<<
Oh, a tough guy, eh?

lawrenc​e

almost 4 years ago

Jack Cardiff, Sven Nykvist, Greg Toland, Douglas Slocombe, Christopher Doyle, Freddie Francis, Josef Von Sternberg, John Alton, Stanley Cortez, James Wong Howe, Gordon Willis, William Daniels, Robert Surtees, Freddie Young, Vittorio Storraro, Yoshio Miyajima, Charles B.Lang, Russell Metty, Walter Lassally, Nestor Almendros, Vilmos Zsigmond, Eduardo Serra.

Jimmy B.

almost 4 years ago

Gordon Willis
Sven Nykvist
Emmanuel Lubezki
Hoyte Van Hoytema (His work in Let the Right One In was absolutely brilliant, and easily the best of last year)
Raoul Coutard

HAL 9000

almost 4 years ago

Vittorio Storaro, John Toll, Greg Tolland, Michael Ballhaus, Chapman, can’t remember his first name, Darius Khandji, Jordan Cronenwenth, Jeff Cronenwenth, Gordon Willis, Richardson, I can’t remember his first name either, Sven Nykvist, Gunnar Fischer, John Alcott, Geoffrey Unsworth.

Kwenton

almost 4 years ago

Christopher Doyle, dare I say hands down and not receive a wall of flames?

Richard David Pitre

almost 4 years ago

Ive been a big Eric Gautier fan for a while…

Mikel Guillen

almost 4 years ago

Agreed MDB..but ill be nice also to see some postings about WHY they love these DP’s…Not only naming the movie…

Mike Weigand

almost 4 years ago

My favorite cinematographers (followed by what I think is their best work):
Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes)
Tonino Delli Colli (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Conrad L. Hall (The Professionals)
Janusz Kaminski (Schindler’s List)
Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now)
Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Part II)
Freddie A. Young (Ryan’s Daughter)