O BAFTA de Melhor Cinematografia (no original, em inglês: BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography) é um dos prêmios atribuídos aos diretores de fotografia desde o ano de 1963.
Vencedores e indicados Década de 1960 Melhor Cinematografia – Preto e Branco Ano Filme Vencedor(es)1964 The Servant Douglas Slocombe |- |Billy Liar || Denys Coop |- |Heavens Above! || Mutz Greenbaum |- |Station Six-Sahara || Gerald Gibbs |- |The Victors || Christopher Challis |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1965| style="background:#ccc;"| The Pumpkin Eater || style="background:#ccc;"| Oswald MorrisGuns at Batasi Douglas SlocombeKing and Country Denys CoopSéance on a Wet Afternoon Gerry Turpin1966 The Hill Oswald Morris |- |Darling || Kenneth Higgins |- |The Knack ...and How to Get It || David Watkin |- |Repulsion || Gilbert Taylor |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1967| style="background:#ccc;"| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold || style="background:#ccc;"| Oswald Morris|- |Bunny Lake Is Missing || Denys Coop |- |Cul-de-sac || Gilbert Taylor |- |Georgy Girl || Kenneth Higgins |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1968| style="background:#ccc;"| The Whisperers || style="background:#ccc;"| Gerry TurpinMademoiselle David WatkinThe Sailor from Gibraltar Raoul CoutardUlysses Wolfgang Suschitzky
Melhor Cinematografia – Colorida Year Film Recipient(s)1964 From Russia with Love Ted Moore |- |The Running Man || Robert Krasker |- |The V.I.P.s || Jack Hildyard |- |Tamahine || Geoffrey Unsworth |- |Nine Hours to Rama || Arthur Ibbetson |- |Sammy Going South || Erwin Hillier |- |The Scarlet Blade || Jack Asher |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |1965| style="background:#ccc;"| Becket || style="background:#ccc;"| Geoffrey UnsworthThe 7th Dawn Freddie YoungThe Chalk Garden Arthur IbbetsonNothing but the Best Nicolas RoegThe Yellow Rolls-Royce Jack Hildyard1966 The Ipcress File Otto Heller |- |Help! || David Watkin |- |Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines || Christopher Challis |- |Lord Jim || Freddie Young |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1967| style="background:#ccc;"| Arabesque || style="background:#ccc;"| Christopher ChallisAlfie Otto HellerThe Blue Max Douglas SlocombeModesty Blaise Jack Hildyard1968 A Man for All Seasons 'Ted Moore |- |Blow-Up || Carlo Di Palma |- |The Deadly Affair || Freddie Young |- |Far from the Madding Crowd'' Nicolas Roeg
Melhor Cinematografia Ano Filme Vencedor(es)1969 2001: A Space Odyssey Geoffrey UnsworthThe Charge of the Light Brigade David WatkinElvira Madigan Jörgen PerssonThe Lion in Winter Douglas Slocombe1970 Oh! What a Lovely War 'Gerry Turpin |- |Bullitt || William A. Fraker |- |Funny Girl || rowspan=2 | Harry Stradling |- |Hello, Dolly!|- |The Magus || rowspan=2 | Billy Williams |- |Women in Love''
Década de 1970 Ano Filme Vencedor(es)1971 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Conrad Hall |- |Catch-22 || David Watkin |- |Ryan's Daughter || Freddie Young |- |Waterloo || Armando Nannuzzi |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1972| style="background:#ccc;"| Morte a Venezia || style="background:#ccc;"| Pasqualino De SantisFiddler on the Roof Oswald MorrisThe Go-Between Gerry FisherSunday Bloody Sunday Billy Williams1973 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland e Cabaret Geoffrey Unsworth |- |A Clockwork Orange || John Alcott |- |Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini || Ennio Guarnieri |- |Deliverance || rowspan=3 | Vilmos Zsigmond |- |Images |- |McCabe & Mrs. Miller |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |1974| style="background:#ccc;"| Don't Look Now || style="background:#ccc;"| Anthony B. RichmondJesus Christ Superstar Douglas SlocombeTravels with My AuntSleuth Oswald MorrisViskningar och rop Sven Nykvist1975 The Great Gatsby Douglas Slocombe |- |Chinatown || John A. Alonzo |- |Murder on the Orient Express || rowspan="2" | Geoffrey Unsworth |- |Zardoz |- |The Three Musketeers || David Watkin |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1976| style="background:#ccc;"| Barry Lyndon || style="background:#ccc;"| John AlcottThe Man Who Would Be King Oswald MorrisRollerball Douglas SlocombeThe Towering Inferno Fred J. Koenekamp1977 Picnic at Hanging Rock Russell Boyd |- |Aces High || Peter Allwork e Gerry Fisher |- |All the President's Men || Gordon Willis |- |One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest || Bill Butler, William A. Fraker e Haskell Wexler |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1978| style="background:#ccc;"| A Bridge Too Far || style="background:#ccc;"| Geoffrey UnsworthThe Deep Christopher ChallisIl Casanova di Federico Fellini Giuseppe RotunnoValentino Peter Suschitzky1979 Julia Douglas Slocombe |- |Close Encounters of the Third Kind || Vilmos Zsigmond |- |The Duellists || Frank Tidy |- |Superman || Geoffrey Unsworth |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1980| style="background:#ccc;"| The Deer Hunter || style="background:#ccc;"| Vilmos ZsigmondApocalypse Now Vittorio StoraroManhattan Gordon WillisYanks Dick Bush
Década de 1980 Ano Filme Vencedor(es)1981 All That Jazz Giuseppe RotunnoThe Black Stallion Caleb DeschanelThe Elephant Man Freddie FrancisKagemusha Takao Saitô e Masaharu Ueda1982 Tess Ghislain Cloquet e Geoffrey Unsworth |- |Chariots of Fire || David Watkin |- |The French Lieutenant's Woman || Freddie Francis |- |Raiders of the Lost Ark || Douglas Slocombe |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1983| style="background:#ccc;"| Blade Runner || style="background:#ccc;"| Jordan Cronenweth|- |E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial || Allen Daviau |- |Gandhi || Ronnie Taylor e Billy Williams |- |Reds || Vittorio Storaro |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1984| style="background:#ccc;"| Fanny och Alexander || style="background:#ccc;"| Sven Nykvist|- |Heat and Dust || Walter Lassally |- |Local Hero || Chris Menges |- |Zelig || Gordon Willis |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1985| style="background:#ccc;"| The Killing Fields || style="background:#ccc;"| Chris Menges|- |Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes || John Alcott |- |Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom || Douglas Slocombe |- |Once Upon a Time in America || Tonino Delli Colli |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1986| style="background:#ccc;"| Amadeus || style="background:#ccc;"| Miroslav Ondříček|- |The Emerald Forest || Philippe Rousselot |- |A Passage to India || Ernest Day |- |Witness || John Seale |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1987| style="background:#ccc;"| Out of Africa || style="background:#ccc;"| David Watkin|- |The Mission || Chris Menges |- |Ran || Takao Saitô e Masaharu Ueda |- |A Room with a View || Tony Pierce-Roberts |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1988| style="background:#ccc;"| Jean de Florette || style="background:#ccc;"| Bruno Nuytten|- |Cry Freedom || Ronnie Taylor |- |Hope and Glory || Philippe Rousselot |- |Platoon || Robert Richardson |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1989| style="background:#ccc;"| Empire of the Sun || style="background:#ccc;"| Allen Daviau|- |Babettes gæstebud || Henning Kristiansen |- |The Last Emperor || Vittorio Storaro |- |Who Framed Roger Rabbit || Dean Cundey |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |1990| style="background:#ccc;"| Mississippi Burning || style="background:#ccc;"| Peter Biziou'|- |Dangerous Liaisons || rowspan=2 | Philippe Rousselot |- |L'Ours |- |Gorillas in the Mist || John Seale |- |Henry V'' Kenneth MacMillan
Década de 1990 Ano Filme Vencedor(es)1991 The Sheltering Sky Vittorio Storaro |- |Goodfellas || Michael Ballhaus
|Glory || Freddie Francis |- |Nuovo Cinema Paradiso || Blasco Giurato |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1992| style="background:#ccc;"| Cyrano de Bergerac || style="background:#ccc;"| Pierre LhommeThelma & Louise Adrian BiddleThe Silence of the Lambs Tak FujimotoDances with Wolves Dean Semler1993 The Last of the Mohicans Dante Spinotti |- |Cape Fear || Freddie Francis |- |Strictly Ballroom || Jack N. Green |- |Howards End || Tony Pierce-Roberts |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1994| style="background:#ccc;"| Schindler's List || style="background:#ccc;"| Janusz KamińskiThe Age of Innocence Michael BallhausThe Piano Stuart DryburghThe Remains of the Day Tony Pierce-Roberts1995 Interview with the Vampire Philippe Rousselot |- |The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert || Brian J. Breheny |- |Forrest Gump || Don Burgess |- |Pulp Fiction || Andrzej Sekuła |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1996| style="background:#ccc;"| Braveheart || style="background:#ccc;"| John TollSense and Sensibility Michael CoulterApollo 13 Dean CundeyThe Madness of King George Andrew Dunn1997 The English Patient John Seale |- |Fargo || Roger Deakins |- |Evita || Darius Khondji |- |Michael Collins || Chris Menges |- | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |1998| style="background:#ccc;"| The Wings of the Dove || style="background:#ccc;"| Eduardo SerraTitanic Russell CarpenterRomeo + Juliet Donald McAlpineL.A. Confidential Dante Spinotti1999 Elizabeth Remi Adefarasin |- |The Truman Show || Peter Biziou |- |Shakespeare in Love || Richard Greatrex |- |Saving Private Ryan || Janusz Kamiński |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2000| style="background:#ccc;"| American Beauty || style="background:#ccc;"| Conrad HallThe Matrix Bill PopeThe End of the Affair Roger PrattThe Talented Mr. Ripley John SealeAngela's Ashes Michael Seresin
Década de 2000 Ano Filme Vencedor(es)2001 Gladiator John Mathieson |- |O Brother, Where Art Thou? || Roger Deakins |- |Wo hu cang long || Peter Pau |- |Chocolat || Roger Pratt |- |Billy Elliot || Brian Tufano |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2002| style="background:#ccc;"| The Man Who Wasn't There || style="background:#ccc;"| Roger DeakinsLe fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain Bruno DelbonnelBlack Hawk Down Sławomir IdziakThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Andrew LesnieMoulin Rouge! Donald McAlpine2003 Road to Perdition Conrad Hall |- |Gangs of New York || Michael Ballhaus |- |Chicago || Dion Beebe |- |The Pianist || Paweł Edelman |- |The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers || Andrew Lesnie |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2004| style="background:#ccc;"| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King || style="background:#ccc;"| Andrew LesnieLost in Translation Lance AcordMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World Russell BoydCold Mountain John SealeGirl with a Pearl Earring Eduardo Serra2005 Collateral Dion Beebe e Paul Cameron |- |The Aviator || Robert Richardson |- |Finding Neverland || Roberto Schaefer |- |Shi mian mai fu || Zhao Xiaoding |- |Diários de Motocicleta || Éric Gautier |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2006| style="background:#ccc;"| Memoirs of a Geisha || style="background:#ccc;"| Dion BeebeLa marche de l'empereur Laurent Chalet e Jérôme MaisonThe Constant Gardener César CharloneCrash J. Michael MuroBrokeback Mountain Rodrigo Prieto2007 Children of Men Emmanuel Lubezki |- |United 93 || Barry Ackroyd |- |Casino Royale || Phil Méheux |- |El laberinto del fauno || Guillermo Navarro |- |Babel || Rodrigo Prieto |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2008| style="background:#ccc;"| No Country for Old Men || style="background:#ccc;"| Roger DeakinsThere Will Be Blood Robert ElswitAtonement Seamus McGarveyAmerican Gangster Harris SavidesThe Bourne Ultimatum Oliver Wood2009 Slumdog Millionaire Anthony Dod Mantle |- |The Reader || Roger Deakins e Chris Menges |- |The Curious Case of Benjamin Button || Claudio Miranda |- |The Dark Knight || Wally Pfister |- |Changeling || Tom Stern |- | rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" |2010| style="background:#ccc;"| The Hurt Locker || style="background:#ccc;"| Barry AckroydThe Road Javier AguirresarobeAvatar Mauro FioreDistrict 9 Trent OpalochInglourious Basterds Robert Richardson
Década de 2010 Ano Filme Vencedor(es)2011 True Grit Roger Deakins |- |127 Hours || Enrique Chediak e Anthony Dod Mantle |- |The King's Speech || Danny Cohen |-