The following is a list of notable film director and cinematographer collaborations. It is ordered by film director.
Films for which the cinematographer won the Academy Award are in bold.
A
J. J. Abrams
Robert Aldrich
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodóvar
Robert Altman
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Michael Apted
Dario Argento
Darren Aronofsky
Hal Ashby
Richard Attenborough
John G. Avildsen
B
Charles Band
Noah Baumbach
Warren Beatty
Ingmar Bergman
Bruce Beresford
Bernardo Bertolucci
Kenneth Branagh
Danny Boyle
Tim Burton
C
Martin Campbell
James Cameron
Frank Capra
John Carpenter
Claude Chabrol
Charlie Chaplin
George Clooney
Coen brothers
- Roger Deakins
- Barton Fink (1991)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
- Fargo (1996, Academy Award nomination)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Academy Award nomination)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Academy Award nomination)
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
- The Ladykillers (2004)
- No Country for Old Men (2007, Academy Award nomination)
- A Serious Man (2009)
- True Grit (2010, Academy Award nomination)
- Hail, Caesar! (2016)
- Bruno Delbonnel
- Paris, je t'aime (segment "Tuileries") (2006)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Academy Award nomination)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, miniseries)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Academy Award nomination)
- Jack of Spades (2026)
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Miller's Crossing (1990)
Ryan Coogler
Francis Ford Coppola
David Cronenberg
Alfonso Cuarón
Sean S. Cunningham
D
Joe Dante
Dardenne brothers
Brian De Palma
Guillermo del Toro
Claire Denis
E
Clint Eastwood
Blake Edwards
Robert Eggers
Atom Egoyan
Sergei Eisenstein
F
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Federico Fellini
Abel Ferrara
David Fincher
Richard Fleischer
John Ford
MiloÃ
¡ Forman
Marc Forster
Stephen Frears
G
Jean-Luc Godard
D. W. Griffith
James Gunn
H
Lasse Hallström
Michael Haneke
Curtis Hanson
Henry Hathaway
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock
Ron Howard
John Huston
J
Peter Jackson
Norman Jewison
Rian Johnson
K
Jonathan Kaplan
Lawrence Kasdan
Elia Kazan
Krzysztof KieÃ
Âlowski
Henry King
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
L
Walter Lang
John Landis
Yorgos Lanthimos
David Lean
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Richard Lester
Richard Linklater
Joseph Losey
David Lynch
M
James Mangold
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Michael Mann
Jean-Pierre Melville
Vincente Minnelli
Kenji Mizoguchi
Glen Morgan
N
Christopher Nolan
O
YasujirÃ
 Ozu
P
Alan J. Pakula
Park Chan-wook
Alan Parker
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sam Peckinpah
Todd Phillips
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
Powell and Pressburger
R
Sam Raimi
Mani Ratnam
Brett Ratner
Rob Reiner
Alain Resnais
ÃÂric Rohmer
Russo brothers
Mark Rydell
S
Joseph Sargent
Franklin J. Schaffner
Fred Schepisi
Paul Schrader
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Don Siegel
Bryan Singer
Douglas Sirk
Steven Spielberg
- Dean Cundey
- Hook (1991)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Allen Daviau
- Slipstream (1967)
- Amblin' (1968)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Academy Award nomination)
- ' (segment "Kick the Can") (1983)
- The Color Purple (1985, Academy Award nomination)
- Empire of the Sun (1987, Academy Award nomination)
- Janusz KamiÃ
Âski
- Schindler's List (1993, Academy Award)
- ' (1997)
- Amistad (1997, Academy Award nomination)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998, Academy Award)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- The Terminal (2004)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Munich (2005)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
- War Horse (2011, Academy Award nomination)
- Lincoln (2012, Academy Award nomination)
- Bridge of Spies (2015)
- The BFG (2016)
- The Post (2017)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- West Side Story (2021, Academy Award nomination)
- The Fabelmans (2022)
- Disclosure Day (2026)
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- The Sugarland Express (1974)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Academy Award)
George Stevens
Oliver Stone
T
Quentin Tarantino
François Truffaut
Tom Tykwer
V
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Denis Villeneuve
W
The Wachowskis
Peter Weir
Wei Te-sheng
Wim Wenders
Wong Kar-wai
Billy Wilder
- John F. Seitz
- Five Graves to Cairo (1943, Academy Award nomination)
- Double Indemnity (1944, Academy Award nomination)
- The Lost Weekend (1945, Academy Award nomination)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950, Academy Award nomination)
- Joseph LaShelle
- The Apartment (1960, Academy Award nomination)
- Irma la Douce (1963, Academy Award nomination)
- Kiss Me, Stupid (1964, Academy Award nomination)
- The Fortune Cookie (1966, Academy Award nomination)
- Charles Lang
- A Foreign Affair (1948, Academy Award nomination)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Sabrina (1954, Academy Award nomination)
Michael Winner
James Wong
John Woo
Edgar Wright
Joe Wright
William Wyler
Z
Robert Zemeckis
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