AFT Awards: Best Cinematography

This is the seventh category of the 9th 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.

Runners-up:
99 Homes, Beasts of No Nation, Bridgend, Brooklyn, Clouds of Sils Maria , James White, Joy, Mad Max: Fury Road, Man from Reno, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Misunderstood, Room, Sicario, Son of Saul, Spotlight, Tangerines, The Danish Girl, The Hateful Eight, The Martian, The Revenant, Z for Zachariah

The winner:
’71 (Tat Radcliffe) stranded its protagonist in a terrifying unknown landscape, and the camera followed him with such furious intensity that it became an integral part of telling the story.

Other nominees:
The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Carol (Edward Lachman)
Steve Jobs (Alwin H. Küchler)
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Jeanne Lapoirie)