Griff’s Favorite Cinematographers

My first favorite cinematographer is Roger Deakins. My favorite films of his are:

• 1984 (1984)
• Sid and Nancy (1986)
• Barton Fink (1991)
• Homicide (1991)
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Fargo (1996)
• Kundun (1997)
• The Big Lewbowski (1998)
• O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000)
• The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
• The Village (2004)
• Jarhead (2005)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• The Assassination of Jesses James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Doubt (2008)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• A Serious Man (2009)
• True Grit (2010)
• The Company Men (2010)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Prisoners (2013) [On set pic above]
• Unbroken (2014)
• Sicario (2015)
• Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• The Goldfinch (2019)
• 1917 (2019)

My second favorite cinematographer is Darius Khondji. My favorite films of his are:

• The City of Lost Children (1995)
• Se7en (1995)
• Alien: Resurrection (1997)
• The Beach (2000)
• Panic Room (2002)
• Anything Else (2003)
• My Blueberry Nights (2007)
• Funny Games (2008)
• Midnight in Paris (2011)
• Amour (2012)
• The Immigrant (2013) [On set pic above. Khondji is on the right]
• Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
• Irrational Man (2015)
• The Lost City of Z (2017)
• Okja (2017)
• Too Old to Die Young (Miniseries) [2019]
• Anima (Short) [2019]
• Uncut Gems (2019)

My third favorite cinematographer is Gordon Willis. My favorite films of his are:

• Klute (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Bad Company (1972)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• All the President’s Men (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Interiors (1978)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Stardust Memories (1980)
• Zelig (1983)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• The Godfather: Part III (1990)

My fourth favorite cinematographer is Emmanuel Lubezki. My favorite films of his are:

• A Little Princess (1995)
• The Bird Cage (1996)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
• Ali (2001)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
• The New World (2005)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Burn After Reading (2008)
• The Tree of Life (2011)
• To the Wonder (2012)
• Gravity (2013)
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
• Knight of Cups (2015)
• The Revenant (2015) [On set pic above]
• Song to Song (2017)

My fifth favorite cinematographer is Hoyte van Hoytema. My favorites films of his are:

• Let the Right One In (2008)
• The Fighter (2010)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
• Her (2013)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Spectre (2015)
• Dunkirk (2017) [On set pic above]
• Ad Astra (2019)
• Tenet (2020)

My sixth favorite cinematographer is Robby Müller. My favorite films of his are:

• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• The Wrong Move (1975)
• Kings of the Road (1976)
• The American Friend (1977)
• Repo Man (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
• Down by Law (1986) [On set pic above]
• Barfly (1987)
• Mystery Train (1989)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• 24 Hour Party People (2002)
• Coffee and Cigarettes (Segment – “Twins”) [2004]

My seventh favorite cinematographer is Christopher Doyle. My favorite films of his are:

• Days of Being Wild (1990)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Ashes of Time (1994)
• Fallen Angels (1995)
• Happy Together (1997)
• In the Mood for Love (2000)
• Hero (2002)
• 2046 (2004)
• Lady in the Water (2006)
• Paranoid Park (2007)

My eighth favorite cinematographer is Robert Richardson. My favorite films of his are:

• Salvador (1986)
  Platoon (1986)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• The Doors (1991)
• JFK (1991)
• Natural Born Killers (1994)
• Casino (1995)
• Nixon (1995)
• U Turn (1997)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Brining Out the Dead (1999)
• Kill Bill (2003-2004)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Good Shepherd (2006)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) [On set pic above]
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Hugo (2011)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• The Hateful Eight (2015)
• Live by Night (2016)
• Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019)

My ninth favorite cinematographer is Vilmos Zsigmond. My favorite films of his are:

• The Hired Hand (1971)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Deliverance (1972)
• The Long Goodbye (1973)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Obsession (1976)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Heaven’s Gate (1980)
• Blow Out (1981) [On set pic above. Zsigmond is on the right.]
• The Black Dahlia (2006)

My tenth favorite cinematographer is Harris Savides. My favorite films of his are:

• The Game (1997)
• Gerry (2002)
• Elephant (2003)
• Birth (2004)
• Last Days (2005)
• Zodiac (2007)
• American Gangster (2007)
• Milk (2008)
• Greenberg (2010) [On set pic above. Savides is on the right]

My eleventh favorite cinematographer is Edward Lachman. My favorite films of his are:

• Light Sleeper (1992)
• The Limey (1999)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• I’m Not There (2007)
• Life During Wartime (2010)
• Carol (2015) [On set pic above]
• Wonderstruck (2017)
• Dark Waters (2019)

My twelfth favorite cinematographer is Greig Fraser. My favorite films of his are:

• Let Me In (2010)
• Killing Them Softly (2012)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
• Foxcatcher (2014)
• The Gambler (2014)
• Lion (2016)
• Rouge One: A Star Wars Story (2016) [On set pic above]
• Vice (2018)
• Mary Magdalene (2019)

My thirteenth favorite cinematographer is Robbie Ryan. My favorite films of his are:

• Red Road (2006)
• Fish Tank (2009)
• Wuthering Heights (2011)
• The Angels’ Share (2012)
• Slow West (2015)
• I, Daniel Blake (2016)
• American Honey (2016)
• The Favourite (2018) [On set pic above. Ryan is on the left]
• Marriage Story (2019)

My fourteenth favorite cinematographer is Yorick Le Saux. My favorite films of his are:

• Julia (2008)
• I Am Love (2009)
• Carlos (2010)
• Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
• Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
• A Bigger Splash (2015)
• Personal Shopper (2017)
• High Life (2019)
• Non-Fiction (2019)
• Little Women (2019)

My fifteenth favorite cinematographer is Rodrigo Prieto. My favorite films of his are:

• Amores Perros (2000)
• Frida (2002)
• 25th Hour (2002)
• 21 Grams (2003)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Babel (2006)
• State of Play (2009)
• Biutiful (2010)
• Argo (2012)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• The Homesman (2014)
• Silence (2016) [On set pic above]
• The Irishman (2019)