Jack Cardiff

British cinematographer, director and photographer (1914–2009)

Jack Cardiff

OBE

Jack Cardiff in the 1970s

Born| (1914-09-18)18 September 1914

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Died| 22 April 2009(2009-04-22) (aged 94)

Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

Occupations|

* Actor
* cinematographer
* director
* photographer

Years active| 1918–2007
Known for| A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The African Queen (1951)
War and Peace (1956)
Sons and Lovers (1960)

Jack Cardiff OBE (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later.

He is best known for his influential colour cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, and The Red Shoes), John Huston (The African Queen) and Alfred Hitchcock (Under Capricorn). He is also known for his work as a director – in particular, his critically acclaimed film Sons and Lovers (1960) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

In 2000, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and, in 2001, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his contribution to the cinema.

Jack Cardiff's work is reviewed in the documentary film Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) and Terry Johnson's stage play Prism (2017).

## Early life

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Cardiff was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the son of Florence and John Joseph Cardiff, music hall entertainers.[1]

He worked as an actor from an early age, both in the music hall and in a number of silent films, including My Son, My Son (1918), Billy's Rose (1922), The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923) and Tip Toes (1927). At 15, he began working as a camera assistant, clapper boy and production runner for British International Pictures, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Skin Game (1931).[citation needed]

## Cinematography

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In 1935, Cardiff graduated as a camera operator and occasional cinematographer, working mostly for London Films. He was a camera operator on the first film in Britain shot in Technicolor, Wings of the Morning (1937). When the Second World War began, he worked as a cinematographer on public information films. He did a number of films on India where the British wanted to showcase the new capital city of Delhi.

The turning point in his career was as a second unit Technicolor camera operator on Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943); they were sufficiently impressed to hire Cardiff as cinematographer on their post-war Technicolor A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Their collaboration continued with Black Narcissus (1947), which won Cardiff an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and The Red Shoes (1948). These films put Cardiff's talents in high demand, and a string of big-budget films followed.

In 1995, the British Society of Cinematographers conferred a lifetime achievement award on Cardiff.[2]

## Directorial work

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In the late 1950s Cardiff began to direct, with two modest successes in Intent to Kill (1958) and Web of Evidence (1959). His version of D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers (1960), starring Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller and Dean Stockwell, was a hit, critically and at the box-office. It received seven Oscar nominations (including a Best Director nomination for Cardiff) and Freddie Francis won for Best Black-and-White Cinematography. Cardiff received a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.

## Later life

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After concentrating on direction in the 1960s, he returned to cinematography in the 1970s and 1980s, working on mainstream commercial films in the United States. One of the last films Cardiff photographed was at Pinewood Studios in 2004 when he lit veteran actor Sir John Mills in a short entitled Lights 2 (dir. Marcus Dillistone). The combined age of leading actor and cinematographer was a record 186 years.

## Death

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Cardiff died on 22 April 2009, aged 94,[3] the same day as Ken Annakin, with whom he had worked on The Fifth Musketeer (1979). He was survived by his wife and his four sons.[4]

## Filmography

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Jack Cardiff was the camera operator and then cinematographer for 73 films, documentaries and TV series between 1935 and 2007.[5] These are some of the main films:

### Cinematographer

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Year | Title | Director | Notes

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1939 | Delhi | Hans Nieter |
1942 | The Great Mr. Handel | Norman Walker |
1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | Powell and Pressburger |
1947 | Black Narcissus |
1948 | The Red Shoes |
1949 | Under Capricorn | Alfred Hitchcock |
1950 | The Black Rose | Henry Hathaway |
1951 | The Magic Box | John Boulting |
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Albert Lewin |
The African Queen | John Huston |
1954 | The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
1956 | War and Peace | King Vidor |
1957 | The Prince and the Showgirl | Laurence Olivier |
Legend of the Lost | Henry Hathaway |
1958 | The Vikings | Richard Fleischer |
1961 | Fanny | Joshua Logan |
1973 | Scalawag | Kirk Douglas |
1977 | The Prince and the Pauper | Richard Fleischer |
1978 | Death on the Nile | John Guillermin |
1979 | The Fifth Musketeer | Ken Annakin |
1980 | The Awakening | Mike Newell |
1981 | Ghost Story | John Irvin |
The Dogs of War |
1984 | The Far Pavilions | Peter Duffell |
1984 | Conan the Destroyer | Richard Fleischer |
1985 | Cat's Eye | Lewis Teague |
1985 | Rambo: First Blood Part II | George P. Cosmatos |
1986 | Tai-Pan | Daryl Duke |
1987 | Million Dollar Mystery | Richard Fleischer |

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Year | Title | Notes

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1953 | The Story of William Tell | unfinished
1958 | Intent to Kill |
1959 | Beyond This Place | US title: Web of Evidence
1960 | Scent of Mystery |
Sons and Lovers |
1962 | My Geisha |
The Lion |
1963 | The Long Ships |
1965 | Young Cassidy |
The Liquidator |
1968 | Dark of the Sun | Also known as The Mercenaries
The Girl on a Motorcycle | US title: Naked Under Leather
1973 | Penny Gold |
1974 | The Mutations |

## Awards and nominations

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Academy Awards

Year  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result

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1947 | Best Cinematography | Black Narcissus | Won
1956 | War and Peace | Nominated
1960 | Best Director | Sons and Lovers | Nominated
1961 | Best Cinematography | Fanny | Nominated
2001 | Honorary Oscar | — | Won

Other awards

Year  | Award  | Category  | Nominated work  | Result

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1947 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Cinematography | Black Narcissus | Nominated
1956 | British Society of Cinematographers | Best Cinematography | War and Peace | Won
1960 | Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Sons and Lovers | Nominated
1960 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Director | Won
1960 | Directors Guild of America | Best Director | Nominated
1960 | New York Film Critics Circle | Best Director | Won
1960 | National Board of Review | Best Director | Won
1985 | British Academy Television Awards | Best Film Cameraman | The Far Pavilions | Nominated
1994 | American Society of Cinematographers | International Award | — | Won
1994 | British Society of Cinematographers | Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won
1996 | London Film Critics' Circle | Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won
2002 | British Film Institute | BFI Fellowship | — | Won

## Legacy

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A feature-length documentary was made about Cardiff's life and career, Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010) by Craig McCall.[6] It took 17 years to make, and was not completed until after Cardiff had died. As well as many interviews with Cardiff, it included tributes from Sir John Mills, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Kathleen Byron, Kim Hunter, Moira Shearer, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas. It was selected for the official selection of Cannes Classics at the Festival de Cannes in 2010, as well as four other important film festivals that year.[7]

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff was shown as part of the Great Yarmouth Arts Festival 2014 along with some of his photographs, often taken as preliminaries to lighting the films. Further celebrations to mark his birth date took place that September, particularly at the Time and Tide Museum in Great Yarmouth.[citation needed]

Cardiff's life was also explored in the 2017 stage play  Prism by Terry Johnson.

## Bibliography

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* Magic Hour (1996). Faber and Faber limited. ISBN 0-571-19274-2. Foreword by Martin Scorsese.
* Conversations with Jack Cardiff: Art, Light and Direction in Cinema by Justin Bowyer (ISBN 0-7134-8855-7)

## References

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1. ^ "Jack Cardiff biography". Film Reference. Advameg, Inc. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
2. ^ "Jack Cardiff". The Daily Telegraph. 24 April 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
3. ^ Martin, Douglas (24 April 2009). "Jack Cardiff, Film Director, Dies at 94". The New York Times. p. 19. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
4. ^ "Film director Jack Cardiff dies". MSN Movies. Microsoft. 23 April 2009. Archived from the original on 25 April 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
5. ^ Jack Cardiff at IMDb. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
6. ^ Adams, Mark (6 May 2010). "Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff". screendaily.com. Media Business Insight Limited. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
7. ^ ""Documentary" Sunday at Cannes Classics". Festival de Cannes. 16 May 2010. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2011.

## External links

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* Jack Cardiff at IMDb
* BFI: Jack Cardiff
* Jack Cardiff biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
* Jack Cardiff at the Powell & Pressburger pages
* BBC Forum Interview (2001)
* BBC Radio 4's The Film Programme special edition on Jack Cardiff
* Jack Cardiff Prints[usurped]

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Films directed by Jack Cardiff

* The Story of William Tell (1953, unfinished)
* Intent to Kill (1958)
* Beyond This Place (1959)
* Scent of Mystery (1960)
* Sons and Lovers (1960)
* My Geisha (1962)
* The Lion (1962)
* The Long Ships (1963)
* Young Cassidy (1965)
* The Liquidator (1965)
* Dark of the Sun (1968)
* The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
* Penny Gold (1973)
* The Mutations (1974)

Awards for Jack Cardiff

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

1928–1950|

* Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (1928)
* Clyde De Vinna (1929)
* Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer (1930)
* Floyd Crosby (1931)
* Lee Garmes (1932)
* Charles Lang (1933)
* Victor Milner (1934)
* Hal Mohr (1935)
* Tony Gaudio (1936)
* Karl Freund (1937)
* Joseph Ruttenberg (1938)
* Gregg Toland / Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (1939)
* George Barnes / George Perinal (1940)
* Arthur C. Miller / Ernest Palmer (1941)
* Joseph Ruttenberg / Leon Shamroy (1942)
* Arthur C. Miller / Hal Mohr (1943)
* Joseph LaShelle / Leon Shamroy (1944)
* Harry Stradling / Leon Shamroy (1945)
* Arthur C. Miller / Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, and Arthur Arling (1946)
* Guy Green / Jack Cardiff (1947)
* William Daniels / Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall, and Winton C. Hoch (1948)
* Paul C. Vogel / Winton C. Hoch (1949)
* Robert Krasker / Robert Surtees (1950)

1951–1975|

* William C. Mellor / Alfred Gilks and John Alton (1951)
* Robert Surtees / Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout (1952)
* Burnett Guffey / Loyal Griggs (1953)
* Boris Kaufman / Milton R. Krasner (1954)
* James Wong Howe / Robert Burks (1955)
* Joseph Ruttenberg / Lionel Lindon (1956)
* Jack Hildyard (1957)
* Sam Leavitt / Joseph Ruttenberg (1958)
* William C. Mellor / Robert Surtees (1959)
* Freddie Francis / Russell Metty (1960)
* Eugen Schüfftan / Daniel L. Fapp (1961)
* Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz / Freddie Young (1962)
* James Wong Howe / Leon Shamroy (1963)
* Walter Lassally / Harry Stradling (1964)
* Ernest Laszlo / Freddie Young (1965)
* Haskell Wexler / Ted Moore (1966)
* Burnett Guffey (1967)
* Pasqualino De Santis (1968)
* Conrad L. Hall (1969)
* Freddie Young (1970)
* Oswald Morris (1971)
* Geoffrey Unsworth (1972)
* Sven Nykvist (1973)
* Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. Biroc (1974)
* John Alcott (1975)

1976–2000|

* Haskell Wexler (1976)
* Vilmos Zsigmond (1977)
* Néstor Almendros (1978)
* Vittorio Storaro (1979)
* Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (1980)
* Vittorio Storaro (1981)
* Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor (1982)
* Sven Nykvist (1983)
* Chris Menges (1984)
* David Watkin (1985)
* Chris Menges (1986)
* Vittorio Storaro (1987)
* Peter Biziou (1988)
* Freddie Francis (1989)
* Dean Semler (1990)
* Robert Richardson (1991)
* Philippe Rousselot (1992)
* Janusz Kamiński (1993)
* John Toll (1994)
* John Toll (1995)
* John Seale (1996)
* Russell Carpenter (1997)
* Janusz Kamiński (1998)
* Conrad Hall (1999)
* Peter Pau (2000)

2001–present|

* Andrew Lesnie (2001)
* Conrad Hall (2002)
* Russell Boyd (2003)
* Robert Richardson (2004)
* Dion Beebe (2005)
* Guillermo Navarro (2006)
* Robert Elswit (2007)
* Anthony Dod Mantle (2008)
* Mauro Fiore (2009)
* Wally Pfister (2010)
* Robert Richardson (2011)
* Claudio Miranda (2012)
* Emmanuel Lubezki (2013)
* Emmanuel Lubezki (2014)
* Emmanuel Lubezki (2015)
* Linus Sandgren (2016)
* Roger Deakins (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Roger Deakins (2019)
* Erik Messerschmidt (2020)
* Greig Fraser (2021)
* James Friend (2022)
* Hoyte van Hoytema (2023)
* Lol Crawley (2024)

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Academy Honorary Award

1928–1950|

* Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
* Walt Disney (1932)
* Shirley Temple (1934)
* D. W. Griffith (1935)
* The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
* Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
* J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
* Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel) / Technicolor SA (1939)
* Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
* Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
* Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
* George Pal (1943)
* Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
* Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
* Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
* James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
* Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
* Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
* Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)

1951–1975|

* Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
* Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
* 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
* Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
* Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
* Eddie Cantor (1956)
* Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
* Maurice Chevalier (1958)
* Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
* Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
* William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
* William J. Tuttle (1964)
* Bob Hope (1965)
* Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
* Arthur Freed (1967)
* John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
* Cary Grant (1969)
* Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
* Charlie Chaplin (1971)
* Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
* Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
* Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
* Mary Pickford (1975)

1976–2000|

* Margaret Booth (1977)
* Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
* Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
* Henry Fonda (1980)
* Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
* Mickey Rooney (1982)
* Hal Roach (1983)
* James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
* Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
* Ralph Bellamy (1986)
* Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
* Akira Kurosawa (1989)
* Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
* Satyajit Ray (1991)
* Federico Fellini (1992)
* Deborah Kerr (1993)
* Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
* Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
* Michael Kidd (1996)
* Stanley Donen (1997)
* Elia Kazan (1998)
* Andrzej Wajda (1999)
* Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)

2001–present|

* Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
* Peter O'Toole (2002)
* Blake Edwards (2003)
* Sidney Lumet (2004)
* Robert Altman (2005)
* Ennio Morricone (2006)
* Robert F. Boyle (2007)
* Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
* Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
* James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
* D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
* Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
* Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
* Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
* Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
* Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
* Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
* David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
* Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
* Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
* Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)
* Quincy Jones / Juliet Taylor (2024)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

1943–1975|

* Henry King (1943)
* Leo McCarey (1944)
* Billy Wilder (1945)
* Frank Capra (1946)
* Elia Kazan (1947)
* John Huston (1948)
* Robert Rossen (1949)
* Billy Wilder (1950)
* László Benedek (1951)
* Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
* Fred Zinnemann (1953)
* Elia Kazan (1954)
* Joshua Logan (1955)
* Elia Kazan (1956)
* David Lean (1957)
* Vincente Minnelli (1958)
* William Wyler (1959)
* Jack Cardiff (1960)
* Stanley Kramer (1961)
* David Lean (1962)
* Elia Kazan (1963)
* George Cukor (1964)
* David Lean (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Mike Nichols (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Charles Jarrott (1969)
* Arthur Hiller (1970)
* William Friedkin (1971)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
* William Friedkin (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Miloš Forman (1975)

1976–2000|

* Sidney Lumet (1976)
* Herbert Ross (1977)
* Michael Cimino (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Robert Redford (1980)
* Warren Beatty (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Barbra Streisand (1983)
* Miloš Forman (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* Oliver Stone (1986)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
* Clint Eastwood (1988)
* Oliver Stone (1989)
* Kevin Costner (1990)
* Oliver Stone (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Robert Zemeckis (1994)
* Mel Gibson (1995)
* Miloš Forman (1996)
* James Cameron (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

2001–present|

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Martin Scorsese (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Clint Eastwood (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Julian Schnabel (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* James Cameron (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Steven Spielberg (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)
* Brady Corbet (2024)

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British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Cinematography in a Theatrical Feature Film

1953–1975|

* Oswald Morris (1953)
* Robert Krasker (1954)
* Jack Cardiff (1956)
* Jack Hildyard (1958)
* Harry Waxman (1959)
* Freddie Francis (1960)
* Robert Krasker (1961)
* Freddie Young (1962)
* Ted Moore / Douglas Slocombe (1963)
* Geoffrey Unsworth (1964)
* Skeets Kelly (1965)
* Freddie Young / Oswald Morris (1966)
* Oswald Morris (1967)
* Douglas Slocombe (1968)
* Gerry Turpin (1969)
* Freddie Young (1970)
* Oswald Morris (1971)
* Geoffrey Unsworth (1972)
* Douglas Slocombe (1973)
* Douglas Slocombe (1974)
* John Alcott (1975)

1976–2000|

* Gil Taylor (1976)
* Geoffrey Unsworth (1977)
* Douglas Slocombe (1978)
* Billy Williams (1979)
* Freddie Francis (1980)
* Freddie Francis (1981)
* Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor (1982)
* Sven Nykvist (1983)
* Chris Menges (1984)
* Alex Thomson (1985)
* David Watkin (1986)
* Philippe Rousselot (1987)
* Vittorio Storaro (1988)
* Peter Biziou (1989)
* Freddie Francis (1990)
* Pierre Lhomme (1991)
* Tony Pierce-Roberts (1992)
* Janusz Kamiński (1993)
* Philippe Rousselot (1994)
* Andrew Dunn (1995)
* Alex Thomson (1996)
* Dante Spinotti (1997)
* Remi Adefarasin (1998)
* Conrad L. Hall (1999)
* Roger Deakins (2000)

2001–present|

* Roger Deakins (2001)
* Conrad L. Hall (2002)
* Russell Boyd (2003)
* John Mathieson (2005)
* Phil Méheux (2006)
* Roger Deakins (2007)
* Roger Deakins (2008)
* Barry Ackroyd (2009)
* Roger Deakins (2010)
* Guillaume Schiffman (2011)
* Seamus McGarvey (2012)
* Phedon Papamichael (2013)
* Dick Pope (2014)
* Edward Lachman (2015)
* Seamus McGarvey (2016)
* Roger Deakins (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Roger Deakins (2019)
* Erik Messerschmidt (2020)
* Ari Wegner (2021)
* James Friend (2022)
* Robbie Ryan (2023)
* Lol Crawley (2024)

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National Board of Review Award for Best Director

1945–1975|

* Jean Renoir (1945)
* William Wyler (1946)
* Elia Kazan (1947)
* Roberto Rossellini (1948)
* Vittorio De Sica (1949)
* John Huston (1950)
* Akira Kurosawa (1951)
* David Lean (1952)
* George Stevens (1953)
* Renato Castellani (1954)
* William Wyler (1955)
* John Huston (1956)
* David Lean (1957)
* John Ford (1958)
* Fred Zinnemann (1959)
* Jack Cardiff (1960)
* Jack Clayton (1961)
* David Lean (1962)
* Tony Richardson (1963)
* Desmond Davis (1964)
* John Schlesinger (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Richard Brooks (1967)
* Franco Zeffirelli (1968)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1969)
* François Truffaut (1970)
* Ken Russell (1971)
* Bob Fosse (1972)
* Ingmar Bergman (1973)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
* Robert Altman / Stanley Kubrick (1975)

1976–2000|

* Alan J. Pakula (1976)
* Luis Buñuel (1977)
* Ingmar Bergman (1978)
* John Schlesinger (1979)
* Robert Redford (1980)
* Warren Beatty (1981)
* Sidney Lumet (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* David Lean (1984)
* Akira Kurosawa (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Steven Spielberg (1987)
* Alan Parker (1988)
* Kenneth Branagh (1989)
* Kevin Costner (1990)
* Jonathan Demme (1991)
* James Ivory (1992)
* Martin Scorsese (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Ang Lee (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Shekhar Kapur (1998)
* Anthony Minghella (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)

2001–present|

* Todd Field (2001)
* Phillip Noyce (2002)
* Edward Zwick (2003)
* Michael Mann (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Tim Burton (2007)
* David Fincher (2008)
* Clint Eastwood (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Clint Eastwood (2014)
* Ridley Scott (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Bradley Cooper (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Spike Lee (2020)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)
* Steven Spielberg (2022)
* Martin Scorsese (2023)
* Jon M. Chu (2024)

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

1935–1950|

* John Ford (1935)
* Rouben Mamoulian (1936)
* Gregory La Cava (1937)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1938)
* John Ford (1939)
* John Ford (1940)
* John Ford (1941)
* John Farrow (1942)
* George Stevens (1943)
* Leo McCarey (1944)
* Billy Wilder (1945)
* William Wyler (1946)
* Elia Kazan (1947)
* John Huston (1948)
* Carol Reed (1949)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)

1951–1975|

* Elia Kazan (1951)
* Fred Zinnemann (1952)
* Fred Zinnemann (1953)
* Elia Kazan (1954)
* David Lean (1955)
* John Huston (1956)
* David Lean (1957)
* Stanley Kramer (1958)
* Fred Zinnemann (1959)
* Jack Cardiff / Billy Wilder (1960)
* Robert Rossen (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* Tony Richardson (1963)
* Stanley Kubrick (1964)
* John Schlesinger (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Mike Nichols (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Costa-Gavras (1969)
* Bob Rafelson (1970)
* Stanley Kubrick (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Federico Fellini (1974)
* Robert Altman (1975)

1976–2000|

* Alan J. Pakula (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Terrence Malick (1978)
* Woody Allen (1979)
* Jonathan Demme (1980)
* Sidney Lumet (1981)
* Sydney Pollack (1982)
* Ingmar Bergman (1983)
* David Lean (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Chris Menges (1988)
* Paul Mazursky (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Jonathan Demme (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Ang Lee (1995)
* Lars von Trier (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Terrence Malick (1998)
* Mike Leigh (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)

2001–present|

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Clint Eastwood (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Todd Haynes (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Joshua Safdie and Benjamin Safdie (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* S. S. Rajamouli (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)
* RaMell Ross (2024)

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