AFT Awards: Best Cinematography

This is the seventh category of the 5th 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 and drawn from a pool of approximately 138 Films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
Hugo
Beginners
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Tree of Life
Melancholia
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

The winner:
In a Better World (Morten Soborg) was visually magnetic and derived much of its emotional impact from its stunning lensing.

Other nominees:
The Artist (Guillaume Schiffman)
Drive (Newton Thomas Sigel)
Take Shelter (Adam Stone)
Shame (Sean Bobbitt)