1894-1949
01) Citizen Kane (1941, Gregg Toland)
02) Gone With the Wind (1939, Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan)
03) Sunrise (1928, Charles Rosher and Karl Struss)
04) Metropolis (1927, Karl Freund and Gunther Rittau)
05) The Wizard of Oz (1939, Harold Rosson)
06) The Magnificent Ambersons (1943, Stanley Cortez)
07) Casablanca (1942, Arthur Edeson)
08) Potemkin (1925, Eduard Tisse)
09) The Third Man (1949, Robert Krasker)
10) The Birth of a Nation (1915, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer)
11) Napolean (1927, Jules Kruger, Joseph Louis Mundwiller)
12) Intolerance (1916, G.W. "Billy" Bitzer and Karl Brown)
13) The Grapes of Wrath (1940, Gregg Toland)
14) Beauty and the Beast (1946, Henri Alekan)
15) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919, Willy Hameister)
16) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Arthur Edeson)
17) The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S Porter and Blair Smith)
18) Rebecca (1940, George Barnes)
19) Nosferatu (1922, Gunther Krampf and Fritz Arno Wagner)
20) The Maltese Falcon (1941, Arthur Edeson)
21) King Kong (1933, Edward Lindon, J.O. Taylor and Vernon L. Walker)
22) The Last Laugh (1924, Robert Baberske and Karl Freund)
23) The Red Shoes (1948, Jack Cardiff)
24) The General (1927, Bert Haines and Devereaux Jennings)
25) A Trip to the Moon (1902, Michaut and Lucien Tainguy)
26) Stagecoach (1939, Bert Glennon)
27) Out of the Past (1947, Nicholas Musuraca)
28) The Scarlet Empress (1934, Bert Glennon)
29) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, Gregg Toland)
30) The Crowd (1928, Henry Sharp)
1950 - 1998
01) Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Freddie Young)
02) The Godfather (1972, Gordon Willis)
03) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969, Geoffrey Unsworth)
04) Days of Heaven (1978, Nestor Almendros)
05) Schindler's List (1993, Janusz Kaminski)
06) Apocalypse Now (1979, Vittorio Storaro)
07) The Conformist (1972, Vittorio Storaro)
08) Raging Bull (1980, Michael Chapman)
09) Blade Runner (1982, Jordan Cronenweth)
10) Touch of Evil (1958, Russell Metty)
11) The Godfather Part II (1974, Gordon Willis)
12) The Night of the Hunter (1955, Stanley Cortez)
13) The Last Emperor (1987, Vittorio Storaro)
14) JFK (1991, Robert Richardson)
15) Psycho (1960, John L. Russell)
16) Barry Lyndon (1975, John Alcott)
17) Ben-Hur (1959, Robert Surtees)
18) Manhattan (1979, Gordon Willis)
19) A Clockwork Orange (1971, John Alcott)
20) Vertigo (1958, Robert Burks)
21) 8 1/2 (1963, Gianni Di Venanzo)
22) Doctor Zhivago (1965, Freddie Young)
23) The City of Lost Children (Darius Khondji)
24) McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971, Vilmos Zsigmond)
25) Persona (1966, Sven Nykvist)
26) Chinatown (1974, John Alonzo)
27) Rashoman (1960, Kazuo Miyagawa)
28) Seven (1995, Darius Khondji)
29) The English Patient (1996, John Seale)
30) The Black Stallion (1979, Caleb Deshanel)
