YC2: Your 100 Favorite Cinematographers

[Lauren]

#100-96
100 Joseph Ruttenberg
99 Gabriel Figueroa
98 Giuseppe Rotunno
97 Franz Planer
96 Nicholas Hayer

#95-91
95 Jean-Yves Escoffier
94 Dante Spinotti
93 Robert Surtees
92 Luciano Tovoli
91 Lucien Ballard

#90-86
90 Winton C Hoch
89 Carl Hoffman
88 Robert Krasker
87 Aleksei Rodionov
86 Nestor Almendros

#85-81
85 Robert J Flaherty
84 Charles Lawton Jr
83 Al Ruban
82 Benoît Delhomme
81 Gilbert Taylor

#80-76
80 Agnes Godard
79 Lance Acord
78 Alwin H Kuchler
77 Thomas Mauch
76 Charles Lang

#75-71
75 Stephen H Burum
74 Ghislain Cloquet
73 Christian Matras
72 Lee Garmes
71 Jean-Paul Alphen

#70-66
70 Stanley Cortez
69 Jules Kruger
68 Eduard Tisse
67 Conrad L Hall
66 Harold Rosson

#65-61
65 Jean Bachelet
64 Bruno Nuytten
63 Gunnar Fischer
62 Nicholas Musuraca
61 Henri Alekan

#60-56
60 Tim Orr
59 Haskell Wexler
58 John Alcott
57 Henri Decae
56 Armand Thirard

#55-51
55 John Alton
54 Joseph LaShelle
53 Claude Renoir
52 Fritz Arno Wagner
51 Freddie Young

#50-46
50 Philippe Agostini
49 Roland Totheroh
48 Georges Perinal
47 Takao Saito
46 Arthur Edeson

#45-41
45 Jorg Schmidt-Reitwin
44 Janusz Kaminski
43 Anthony B Richmond
42 Kazuo Miyagawa
41 Geoffrey Unsworth

#40-36
40 Xaver Schwarzenberger
39 Jack Cardiff
38 Leonce-Henri Burel
37 Boris Kaufman
36 Yuuharu Atsuta

#30-26
30 Victor Milner
29 Jean Rabier
28 Robert D Yeoman
27 William H Daniels
26 Slawomir Idziak

#25-21
25 Emmanuel Lubezki
24 Frederick Elmes
23 Ernest Haller
22 Harris Savides
21 Gregg Toland

#20-16
20 Robby Müller
19 Russell Metty
18 Pin Bing Lee
17 Joseph MacDonald
16 Asukazu Nakai

#15-11
15 Bert Glennon
14 Carlo Di Palma
13 Vilmos Zsigmond
12 Michael Ballhaus
11 Robert Burks

#10-6
10 Rudolph Maté
9 Robert Richardson
8 Robert Elswit
7 Vittorio Storaro
6 Roger Deakins

#5-1
5 Gordon Willis
4 Raoul Coutard
3 Sacha Vierny
2 Christopher Doyle
1 Sven Nykvist


The 336 who placed, but didn't make the list!

Affonso Beato, Akira Mimura, Alain Levent, Alain Marcoen, Alain Renoir, Albert & David Maysles, Albert Duverger, Albert Viguier, Alberto Fusi, Aldo Graziati, Aldo Scavarda, Aleksandr Burov, Aleksandr Knyazhinsky, Aleksei Fyodorov, Alexis Zabe, Alfio Contini, Alfred Gilks, Allen Daviau, Anchise Brizzi, Andre Bac, Andre Dantan, Andreas Sinanos, Andreas Winding, Andrei Moskvin, Andrew Laszlo, Andrew Lesnie, Andrzej Sekula, Angel Luis Fernandez, Anthony Dod Mantle, Anton Peschke, Ardy Lam, Arthur C Miller, Barry Sonnenfeld, Ben F Reynolds, Ben-Bong Liao, Benoit Debie , Bernard Knowles, Bill Butler, Bill Pope, Brian Probyn, Brian Tufano, Bruno de Keyzer, Bruno Debonnel, Bruno Mondi, Bruno Timm, Burnett Guffey, Buster Sorenson, Byron Houck, Caleb Deschanel, Carl Koch, Caroline Champetier, Charles Rosher Jr, Chris Marker, Chris O'Dell, Christian Berger, Claude Beausoleil, Claude Lelouch, Claudio Miranda, Curt Courant, DA Pennebaker, Daniel L Fapp, Daniel Pearl, Darius Khondji, David Bridges, David L Quaid , David Watkin, Dean Cundey, Declan Quinn, Denis Lenoir, Derek Vanlint, Dick Pope, Dietrich Lohman, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Dion Beebe, Don Burgess, Douglas Milsome, Douglas Slocombe, Edmond Richard, Edmund Corwin, Eduardo Serra, Edward Cronjager, Edward Klosinski, Edward Lachman, Edward Linden, Elgin Lessley, Ellen Kuras, Emil Novak, Emile Pierre, Emilio Foriscot, Emmanuel Machuel, Enzo Serafin, Eric Alan Edwards, Eric Gautier, Erich Nitzschmann, Ernest Dickerson, Erwin Hillier, Erwin Lanzensberger, Eugen Schufftan, Fabio Cianchetti, Fedote Bourgasoff, Fei Zhao, Floyd Crosby, Franz Waxman, Fred J Koenekamp, Freddie Francis, Fukuzo Koizumi, Fyodor Dobronravov, Gabor Medvigy, Gaspar Noe, George Barnes, George E Diskant, George Fanto, George J Folsey, George Krause, Georges Asselin, Georgi Rerberg, Giorgos Arvanitis, Giuseppe Lanci, Giuseppe Ruzzolini, Gokhan Tiryaki, Gonzalo Berridi, Goran Strindberg, Gordon Avil, Gordon Pollock, Gregory Sandor, Guillermo Navarro, Gunther Krapf, Gustav Danielsson, Guy Green, Guy Maddin, Hal Moh, Hal Mohr, Harry J Wild, Harry Stradling Sr, Henning Bendtsen, Herbert Cardwell, Herrmann Saalfrank, Hideo Shigehara, Hideo Yamamoto, Hilding Bladh, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Murai, Hiroshi Segawa, Horace Wong , Hoyte Van Hoytema, Huigong Li, Igor Luther, Ira H Morgan, Istvan Borbas, J Roy Hunt, JA Ball, Jack E Cox, Jack Hildyard, Jack N Green, Jacques Firmann, Jacques Lemare, Jacques Loiseleux, Jacques Renard, Jan de Bont, Jan Lindestrom, Jan Troell, Janez Kalisnik, Jaroslav Kucera, Javier Aguirresarobe, Jean Badal, Jean Chiabaut, Jean-Bernard Menoud, Jeffrey Kimball, Jeong-hun Jeong, Jerzy Lipman, Jesper Klevenas, JO Taylor, Joaquin Baca-Asay, Jody Shapiro, John A Alonzo, John Ankerstjerne, John Coquillon, John J Campbell, John L Russell, John Seale, John Toll, Jordan Cronenweth, Jorgen Persson, Jose Antonio Loureiro, Joseph A Valentine, Joseph F Biroc, Joseph H August, Joseph Kosman, Jost Vacano, Jozsef Lorincz, Julius Jaenzon, Junusz Kaminski, Jurgen Jurges, Karl Andersson, Karl Freund, Kenneth Anger, Kenneth Peach, Lamberto Caimi, Larry Smith, Leonce Crouan, Longyu Zhang, Louis Berger, Louis N�e, Louis Stein, Loyal Griggs, Luis Cuadrado, Lun Yang, Man Ray, Manoel de Oliveira, Marc Fossard, Marcel Zyskind, Maryse Alberti, Masaharu Ueda, Masao Tamai, Massimo Dallamano, Matthew Libatique, Maurice Barry, Michael Chapman, Michio Takahashi, Mikhail Kaufman, Mikhail Krichman, Miklos Gurban, Milton Krasner, Minoru Miki, Minoru Yokoyama, Miroslav Ondricek, Mitch Breit, Ned Burgess, Nicolas Roeg, Noboru Shinoda, Norbert Brodine, Oberdan Troiani, Odd-Geir Saether, Otello Martelli, Otto Heller, Owen Roizman, Patrick Blossier, Patrick Bokanowski, Patrick de Ranter, Patrick Duval, Paul Berriff, Paul Bonis, Paul Cameron, Paul Sarossy, Paul Solignac, Pen-jung Liao, Peter Aim, Peter Biziou, Peter Deming, Peter James, Peter Suchitzky, Philippe Rousselot, Phillip H Lathrop, Pierre Lhomme, Pierre-William Glenn, Piotr Sobocinski, Rafael Corkidi, Rainer Klausman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ralf D Bode, Ramon F Suarez, Ray Orton, Ray Rennahan, Rene Guichard, Ricardo Aronovich, Richard Heslop, Rob Tregenza, Robert Juillard, Robert Komarek, Roberto Barbieri, Rodrigo Prieto, Roger Hubert, Roger Pratt, Ron Fortunato, Ron Fricke, Ronald Victor Garcia, Russell Boyd, Sabine Lancelin, Sam Levy, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Sergei Urusevsky, Sergei Yurizditsky, Setsuo Kobayashi, Setsuo Shibata, Shigeru Kitazumi, Shunichiro Nakao, Sidney Hickox, Sol Polito, Soleiman Minasian, Somchai Kittikun, Sophie Maintigneux, Stanislav Milota, Stefan Czapsky, Stephane Fontaine, Stephen Goldblatt, Stevan Larner, Steven Soderbergh, Stuart Dryburgh, Subrata Mitra, Suketaro Inokai, Suren Shakhbazyan, Tak Fujimoto, Tatsuo Suzuki, Ted Tetzlaff, Theodor Sparkuhl, Tom DiCillo, Tom Stern, Vadim Yusov, Vasili Khvatov, Vernon L Walker, Viktor Bestayev, Viktor Ruzicka, Vilko Filac, Vladmir Popov, W Mott Hupfel III, W Wallace Kelley, Wally Pfister, Walter Wottitz, Wieslaw Zdort, William A Fraker, William C Mellor, William Diver, William Lubtchansky, William O'Connell, William V Skall, Willy Hameister, Willy Kurant, Wilson Chan, Yorick Le saux, Yoshimi Hirano, Yoshimi Kono, Yu Wang, Yuri Gantman, Yuri Ilyenko, Yutaka Yamasaki, Zbigniew Rybczynski.

[Lauren]

All right, that's it for today. Just a little tease. Real lists beginning tomorrow.

[wigwam]

didn't make the list!

Edward Lachman

the man's a magician!!!

[sidehacker]

We should do one of these where we rank our favorite cinematographers.

[Lauren]

JOSEPH RUTTENBERG

3pt
2pt
1pt Fury, Gaslight, Three Comrades





GABRIEL FIGUEROA

3pt
2pt
1pt Night of the Iguana, Los Olvidados, Under the Volcano





GIUSEPPE ROTUNNO

3pt
2pt
1pt All That Jazz, Le Notti bianche, Satyricon





FRANZ PLANER

3pt
2pt
1pt Holiday, Letter From an Unknown Woman, Roman Holiday





NICHOLAS HAYER

3pt
2pt
1pt Le Cobeau, Orphee, Panique

[Lauren]

JEAN-YVES ESCOFFIER

3pt
2pt Lovers on the Bridge
1pt Gummo, Mauvais sang





DANTE SPINOTTI

3pt
2pt
1pt Heat, The Insider, Last of the Mohicans, Manhunter





ROBERT SURTEES

3pt
2pt
1pt Ben-Hur, The Graduate, The Last Picture Show, Sweet Charity





LUCIANO TOVOLI

3pt Suspiria
2pt The Passenger
1pt





LUCIEN BALLARD

3pt The Wild Bunch
2pt The Killing
1pt

[Lauren]

WINTON C HOCH

3pt The Searchers
2pt She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1pt





CARL HOFFMAN

3pt Faust
2pt Dr Mabuse
1pt





ROBERT KRASKER

3pt The Third Man
2pt Brief Encounter
1pt





ALEKSEI RODIONOV

3pt Come & See
2pt Orlando
1pt





NESTOR ALMENDROS

3pt Days of Heaven
2pt Life Lessons
1pt

[InHuman]

Interesting stuff. I bet if we were just voting cinematography based on films, DoH would be in this forum's top 20 at least. The cinematographer is not as lucky, apparently.

[Lauren]

voting cinematography based on films

This is a very good idea for a list.

By the way the co-cinematographer on DoH does a bit better, but not much.

[Lauren]

ROBERT J FLAHERTY

3pt
2pt Man of Aran, Nanook of the North
1pt Tabu





CHARLES LAWTON JR

3pt
2pt The Lady from Shanghai, The Tall T
1pt 3:10 to Yuma





AL RUBAN

3pt
2pt The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night
1pt Love Streams





BENOIT DELHOMME

3pt What Time is it There?
2pt
1pt The Proposition, The Scent of Green Papaya





GILBERT TAYLOR

3pt
2pt Dr Strangelove, Repulsion
1pt Cul-de-sac

[Lauren]

AGNES GODARD

3pt
2pt Friday Night, Beau travail
1pt Trouble Every Day





LANCE ACORD

3pt
2pt Buffalo '66, Lost in Translation
1pt Marie Antoinette





ALWIN H KUCHLER

3pt
2pt Code 46, Morvern Callar
1pt Ratcatcher





THOMAS MAUCH

3pt
2pt Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo
1pt Stroszek





CHARLES LANG

3pt
2pt Ace in the Hole
1pt Inside Daisy Clover, Charade, Sabrina

[Lauren]

STEPHEN H BURUM

3pt
2pt Body Double
1pt Carlito's Way, Rumble Fish, Snake Eyes





GHISLAIN CLOQUET

3pt
2pt Mouchette
1pt Au Hasard Balthazar, Tess, The Young Girls of Rochefort





CHRISTIAN MATRAS

3pt
2pt La Ronde
1pt The Grand Illusion, Madame de..., Le Plaisir





LEE GARMES

3pt
2pt Gone With the Wind
1pt Duel in the Sun, The Lusty Men, Scarface





JEAN-PAUL ALPHEN

3pt The Rules of the Game, L'Atalante
2pt
1pt

[wigwam]

GABRIEL FIGUEROA

3pt
2pt
1pt Night of the Iguana, Los Olvidados, Under the Volcano

i figured this guy must be pretty cool, but working shirtless and with a cool mustache and all impatiently framing shit like he needs to get back to windsurfing?

[wigwam]

These are looking so great, Lauren!

[Waxy]

no doubt, these pics are the best thing done on TLC

[Ally]

GABRIEL FIGUEROA

3pt
2pt
1pt Night of the Iguana, Los Olvidados, Under the Volcano

i figured this guy must be pretty cool, but working shirtless and with a cool mustache and all impatiently framing shit like he needs to get back to windsurfing?

luis & john liked having around a shirtless cinematographer. too bad I couldn't have been an assistant on the films he worked on.

[Jewellrunner]

Awesome work! Man, lots of my favorites are in the 70s range. Interested to see the rest.

[Lauren]

STANLEY CORTEZ

3pt The Magnificent Ambersons, Night of the Hunter
2pt
1pt





JULES KRUGER

3pt Pepe le Moko
2pt Napoleon
1pt La Bandera





EDUARD TISSE

3pt Strike
2pt Ivan the Terrible Part I
1pt Battleship Potemkin





CONRAD L HALL

3pt Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
2pt In Cold Blood
1pt Electra Glide in Blue





HAROLD ROSSON

3pt Singin' in the Rain
2pt The Asphalt Jungle
1pt Duel in the Sun

[InHuman]

Interesting.

[Lauren]

BTW LMAO @ wigs Figueroa remarx. Is it too late to recruit you to write me captions?

[Lauren]

JEAN BACHELET

3pt The Rules of the Game
2pt The Crime of M Lange
1pt Nana





BRUNO NUYTTEN

3pt Possession
2pt India Song
1pt Jean de Florette





GUNNAR FISCHER

3pt Wild Strawberries
2pt The Seventh Seal
1pt Smiles of a Summer Night





NICHOLAS MUSURACA

3pt The Spiral Staircase
2pt Out of the Past
1pt Cat People





HENRI ALEKAN

3pt Wings of Desire
2pt La Belle et la bete
1pt Roman Holiday

[Lauren]

There are half a dozen tiny pictures of Bachelet on Google images, none of which resemble the others. Also I don't know about how I counted these random old Frenchie collaborators, but I couldn't really establish that any of them worked in usual teams I could group together. So Bachelet is the last of them.

[wigwam]

Is it too late to recruit you to write me captions?

never, pm me the next batch and i will caption up that ass!

[stack]

GABRIEL FIGUEROA

blah, blah

apparently, he'd frame something, show buñuel, buñuel would look at it, say, "too beautiful," spin the camera, and tell him it now looks perfect.

[warthog]

GABRIEL FIGUEROA

blah, blah

apparently, he'd frame something, show buñuel, buñuel would look at it, say, "too beautiful," spin the camera, and tell him it now looks perfect.

spot on