David di Donatello for Best Cinematography

Winners are indicated in bold.

1981

• Pasqualino De Santis – Three Brothers
• Tonino Delli Colli – Camera d'albergo
• Ennio Guarnieri – The Lady of the Camellias

1982

• Tonino Delli Colli – Tales of Ordinary Madness
• Danilo Desideri – Portrait of a Woman, Nude
• Sergio D'Offizi – Il Marchese del Grillo

1983

• Franco Di Giacomo – The Night of the Shooting Stars
• Armando Nannuzzi – That Night in Varennes
• Carlo Di Palma – Identification of a Woman

1984

• Giuseppe Rotunno – And the Ship Sails On
• Ricardo Aronovich – Le Bal (1983 film)
• Dante Spinotti – Hearts and Armour

1985

• Pasqualino De Santis – Carmen
• Giuseppe Lanci – Kaos
• Alfio Contini – A Proper Scandal

1986

• Giuseppe Lanci – Camorra
• Tonino Delli Colli and Ennio Guarnieri – Ginger and Fred
• Dante Spinotti – The Berlin Affair

1987

• Tonino Delli Colli – The Name of the Rose
• Ricardo Aronovich – The Family
• Franco Di Giacomo – The Inquiry

1988

• Vittorio Storaro – The Last Emperor
• Franco Di Giacomo – Dark Eyes
• Tonino Delli Colli – Intervista

1989

• Dante Spinotti – The Legend of the Holy Drinker
• Giuseppe Lanci – Francesco
• Luciano Tovoli – Splendor

1990

• Giuseppe Rotunno – The Bachelor
• Tonino Nardi – Open Doors
• Tonino Delli Colli – The Voice of the Moon
• Pasqualino De Santis – The Palermo Connection
• Luciano Tovoli – What Time Is It?

1991

• Luciano Tovoli – Captain Fracassa's Journey
• Italo Petriccione – Mediterraneo
• Alessio Gelsini Torresi – Ultra
• Giuseppe Lanci – The Sun Also Shines at Night
• Giuseppe Lanci – The Conviction

1992

• Danilo Desideri – Damned the Day I Met You
• Tonino Nardi and Renato Tafuri – The Stolen Children
• Ennio Guarnieri – The Inner Circle

1993

• Alessio Gelsini Torresi – The Escort
• Luca Bigazzi – Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
• Giuseppe Lanci – Fiorile

1994

• Bruno Cascio – Father and Son
• Dante Spinotti – The Secret of the Old Woods
• Luca Bigazzi – A Soul Split in Two
• Giuseppe Lanci – Caro diario

1995

• Luca Bigazzi – Lamerica
• Luca Bigazzi – Nasty Love
• Franco Di Giacomo – Il Postino: The Postman

1996

• Alfio Contini – Beyond the Clouds
• Darius Khondji – Stealing Beauty
• Dante Spinotti – The Star Maker

1997

• Tonino Delli Colli – Marianna Ucrìa
• Pasqualino De Santis and Marco Pontecorvo – The Truce
• Blasco Giurato – The Game Bag
• Giuseppe Lanci – The Prince of Homburg
• Italo Petriccione – Nirvana

1998

• Tonino Delli Colli – Life Is Beautiful
• Luca Bigazzi – The Acrobats
• Pasquale Mari – Rehearsals for War

1999

• Lajos Koltai – The Legend of 1900
• Luca Bigazzi – The Way We Laughed
• Fabio Cianchetti – Besieged

2000

• Luca Bigazzi – Bread and Tulips
• Fabio Cianchetti – Canone inverso
• Giuseppe Lanci – The Nanny

2001

• Lajos Koltai – Malèna
• Franco Di Giacomo – Unfair Competition
• Roberto Forza – One Hundred Steps

2002

• Fabio Olmi – The Profession of Arms
• Luca Bigazzi – Burning in the Wind
• Arnaldo Catinari – Light of My Eyes

2003

• Daniele Nannuzzi – El Alamein: The Line of Fire
• Maurizio Calvesi – The Soul Keeper
• Gian Filippo Corticelli – Facing Windows
• Marco Onorato – The Embalmer
• Dante Spinotti – Pinocchio
• Fabio Zamarion – Respiro

2004

• Italo Petriccione – I'm Not Scared
• Danilo Desideri – Love Is Eternal While It Lasts
• Fabio Olmi – Singing Behind Screens
• Marco Onorato – First Love
• Fabio Zamarion –What Will Happen to Us

2005

• Luca Bigazzi – The Consequences of Love
• Tani Canevari – Manual of Love
• Arnaldo Catinari – The Life That I Want
• Dante Cecchin – After Midnight
• Gian Filippo Corticelli – Sacred Heart

2006

• Luca Bigazzi – Romanzo Criminale
• Arnaldo Catinari – The Caiman
• Fabio Cianchetti – Our Land
• Danilo Desideri – My Best Enemy
• Marcello Montarsi – Notte prima degli esami

2007

• Fabio Zamarion - The Unknown Woman
• Alessandro Pesci – Napoleon and Me
• Luca Bigazzi – The Family Friend
• Agnès Godard – Nuovomondo
• Fabio Olmi – One Hundred Nails

2008

• Ramiro Civita – The Girl by the Lake
• Luca Bigazzi – The Right Distance
• Maurizio Calvesi – I Vicerè
• Arnaldo Catinari – Parlami d'amore
• Alessandro Pesci – Quiet Chaos

2009

• Luca Bigazzi – Il Divo
• Arnaldo Catinari – The Demons of St. Petersberg
• Marco Onorato – Gomorrah
• Italo Petriccione – As God Commands
• Vittorio Storaro – Caravaggio

2010

• Daniele Ciprì – Vincere
• Enrico Lucidi – Baarìa
• Roberto Cimatti – The Man Who Will Come
• Nicola Pecorini – The First Beautiful Thing
• Maurizio Calvesi – Loose Cannons

2011

• Renato Berta – We Believed
• Vittorio Omodei Zorini – 20 sigarette
• Luca Bigazzi – The Jewel
• Fabio Cianchetti – The Solitude of Prime Numbers
• Arnaldo Catinari – Angel of Evil

2012

• Luca Bigazzi – This Must Be the Place
• Paolo Carnera - ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards
• Simone Zampagni – Caesar Must Die
• Alessandro Pesci – We Have a Pope
• Roberto Forza – Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

2013

• Marco Onorato (posthumous) – Reality
• Fabio Cianchetti – Me and You
• Gherardo Gossi – Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood
• Italo Petriccione – Siberian Education
• Fabio Zamarion – The Best Offer

2014

• Luca Bigazzi – The Great Beauty
• Jérôme Alméras – Human Capital
• Daniele Ciprì – Salvo
• Gian Filippo Corticelli – Fasten Your Seatbelts
• Gergely Poharnok – Miele

2015

• Vladan Radovic – Black Souls
• Fabio Cianchetti – Hungry Hearts
• Renato Berta – Leopardi
• Italo Petriccione – The Invisible Boy
• Fabio Olmi – Greenery Will Bloom Again

2016

• Peter Suschitzky – Tale of Tales
• Michele D'Attanasio – They Call Me Jeeg
• Maurizio Calvesi – Don't Be Bad
• Paolo Carnera – Suburra
• Luca Bigazzi – Youth

2017

• Michele D'Attanasio – Italian Race
• Daniele Ciprì – Sweet Dreams
• Ferran Paredes Rubio – Indivisible
• Vladan Radovic – Like Crazy
• Maurizio Calvesi – The Confessions

2018

• Gian Filippo Corticelli – Naples in Veils
• Tim Curtin – A Ciambra
• Gianni Mammolotti – Malarazza - Una storia di periferia
• Luca Bigazzi – Sicilian Ghost Story
• Fabrizio Lucci – The Place

2019

• Nicolaj Brüel – Dogman
• Michele D'Attanasio – Capri-Revolution
• Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name
• Paolo Carnera – Boys Cry
• Hélène Louvart – Happy as Lazzaro

2020

• Daniele Ciprì – The First King: Birth of an Empire
• Vladan Radovic – The Traitor
• Franco Di Giacomo – Martin Eden
• Nicolaj Brüel – Pinocchio
• Daria D'Antonio – Remember?

2021

• Matteo Cocco – Hidden Away
• Paolo Carnera – Bad Tales
• Luan Amelio Ukjaj - Hammamet
• Gherardo Gossi – The Macaluso Sisters
• Crystel Fournier – Miss Marx
• Michele D'Attanasio – Padrenostro

2022

• Daria D'Antonio – The Hand of God (ex aequo)
• Michele D'Attanasio – Freaks Out (ex aequo)
• Paolo Carnera – America Latina
• Luca Bigazzi – The Inner Cage
• Renato Berta – The King of Laughter

2023

• Ruben Impens – The Eight Mountains
• Francesco Di Giacomo – Exterior Night
• Giovanni Mammolotti – I racconti della domenica
• Maurizio Calvesi – Strangeness
• Paolo Carnera – Nostalgia

2024

• Paolo Carnera – Io capitano
• Davide Leone – There's Still Tomorrow
• Ferran Paredes Rubio – Comandante
• Hélène Louvart – La chimera
• Francesco Di Giacomo – Kidnapped