AFT Awards: Best Cinematography

This is the seventh category of the 6th 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 95 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
Amour, Argo, The Avengers, The Black Tulip, Compliance, The Dark Knight Rises, Detachment, Flight, Footnote, Headhunters, The Impossible, Life of Pi, Perfect Sense, Prometheus, La Rafle, Rust and Bone, Skyfall, We Have a Pope

The winner:
Moonrise Kingdom (Robert D. Yeoman) filmed its story in a mesmerizing, eye-popping manner that enhanced its story with a wonderful, picaresque setting.

Other nominees:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Ben Richardson)
The Master (Mihai Malamaire)
Anna Karenina (Seamus McGarvey)
Zero Dark Thirty (Greig Frasier)