AFT Awards: Best Cinematography

This is the seventh category of the 4th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Animal Kingdom, The Eclipse, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Red Riding: 1974, Red Riding: 1980, Red Riding: 1983, The Secret in their Eyes, Shutter Island, The Social Network

Runners-up:
THE KILLER INSIDE ME
127 HOURS
A PROPHET

The winner:
Inception (Wally Pfister) offered a whole new take on reality, and nowhere was that more clear than in the way its shots were framed and presented.

Other nominees:
Somewhere (Harris Savides)
I Am Love (Yorick Le Saux)
Micmacs (Tetsuo Negata)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Eric Kress)