Avatar won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography.http://oscar.go.com/media/2010/html/print10.html The Director of Cinematography for the film Avatar was Mauro Fiore.

Previous winners and nominees for this award include:

• 2009
  • Slumdog Millionaire (Winner)
    • Anthony Dod Mantle
  • Changeling
    • Tom Stern
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • Claudio Miranda
  • The Dark Knight
    • Wally Pfister
  • The Reader
    • Roger Deakins and Chris Menges

• 2008
  • There Will Be Blood (Winner)
    • Robert Elswit
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    • Roger Deakins
  • Atonement
    • Seamus McGarvey
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    • Janusz Kami?ski
  • No Country for Old Men
    • Roger Deakins

• 2007
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Winner)
    • Guillermo Navarro
  • The Black Dahlia
    • Vilmos Zsigmond
  • Children of Men
    • Emmanuel Lubezki
  • The Illusionist
    • Dick Pope
  • The Prestige
    • Wally Pfister

Mauro Fiore, cinematographer for the blockbuster Avatar, accepts his award for Best Cinematography at the 2010 Oscar Awards. Fiore thanks director James Cameron for his "amazing vision". He also gave a shout out to his parents, who came to America with nothing but "four suitcases and a dream".