The Satellite Award for Best Cinematography is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

• 1996: The English Patient
  • Breaking the Waves
  • Evita
  • Hamlet
  • Romeo + Juliet
• 1997: Amistad
  • Contact
  • Eve's Bayou
  • L.A. Confidential
  • Titanic
• 1998: The Thin Red Line
  • Beloved
  • Pleasantville
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Shakespeare in Love
• 1999: Sleepy Hollow
  • American Beauty
  • Anna and the King
  • Eyes Wide Shut
  • Snow Falling on Cedars
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000s

• 2000: Gladiator
  • The Legend of Bagger Vance
  • Mission: Impossible II
  • Traffic
  • Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
• 2001: The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Hearts in Atlantis
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Pearl Harbor
• 2002: Road to Perdition
  • Far from Heaven
  • Gangs of New York
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • Minority Report
• 2003: The Last Samurai
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Mystic River
  • Seabiscuit
• 2004: Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers)
  • The Aviator
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)
• 2005: The Constant Gardener
  • 2046
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • Kung fu (Kung Fu Hustle)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Sin City
• 2006: Flags of Our Fathers
  • The Black Dahlia
  • Casa de Areia (House of Sand)
  • The Fountain
  • A Good Year
  • Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia (Curse of the Golden Flower)
  • X-Men: The Last Stand
• 2007: Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
  • Across the Universe
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • The Golden Compass
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Zodiac