Best Cinematography Oscar Winner 2009

Categories: Entertainment | Movies | Oscars 2009
    • Awarded to the cinematographer/director of photography of the movie
    • Winner: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire
    • Presenters: Natalie Portman and Ben Stiller
    • Nominations announced: January 22, 2009
    • Award time: February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. PST
    • Network: ABC
    • Host: Hugh Jackman
    • First nomination for Tom Stern, Claudio Miranda and Anthony Dod Mantle
    • Chris Menges haw won two previous Oscars for cinematography
    • Pfister and Deakins have previously been nominated
    • Voted on by members of the Academy Film and Television Arts and Sciences
    • Last year's winner: Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood
    • First award winner: Charles Rosher and Karl Struss for Sunrise in 1927