| AACTA Award for Best Cinematography | |
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| Country | Australia |
| Presented by | Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) |
| First award | 1976 |
| Currently held by | Simon Duggan,Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
| Website | http://www.aacta.org |
TheAACTA Award for Best Cinematography is an award presented by theAustralian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television."[1] The award is presented at the annualAACTA Awards, which hand out accolades for achievements infeature film,television,documentaries andshort films.[2] From 1976 to 2010, the category was presented by theAustralian Film Institute (AFI), the Academy's parent organisation, at the annual Australian Film Institute Awards (known as the AFI Awards).[3] When the AFI launched the Academy in 2011, it changed the annual ceremony to the AACTA Awards, with the current award being a continuum of the AFI Award for Best Cinematography.[3]
Best Cinematography was first presented in 1976Australian Film Institute Awards with the winner being chosen by theAustralian Cinematographers Society (ACS). The award is presented to the cinematographer of a film that is Australian-made, or with a significant amount of Australian content.Russell Boyd,Simon Duggan,Peter James,Donald McAlpine andGeoffrey Simpson have won the award three times each, more than any other cinematographer. Boyd has received the most nominations with nine.
In the following table, the years listed correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are usually held the same year.[A] The films and cinematographers in bold and in yellow background have won are the winners. Those that are neither highlighted nor in bold are the nominees. When sorted chronologically, the table always lists the winning film first and then the other nominees.[4][5]
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| AFI Awards (1976-2010) AACTA Awards (2011-present) 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s |