The Goya Award for Best Cinematography (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor fotografÃÂa) is one of the Goya Awards presented annually by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) since the awards debuted in 1986. It is presented to a cinematographer for an outstanding work in one particular Spanish film.
Teodoro Escamilla was the first winner of the award for his work in Love, the Magician (1986). José Luis Alcaine holds the record of most nominations for this category with twenty, winning five of them. Javier Aguirresarobe is the most awarded in this category with six wins, for Prince of Shadows (1991), The Dog in the Manger (1996), The Others (2001), Soldiers of Salamina (2003) and The Sea Inside (2004). Guillermo Navarro also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Pan's Labyrinth.
In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.