Every Best Cinematography Nominee at the 2025 Academy Awards, Ranked

This year's Best Cinematography nominees include some of the most gorgeous films of the year. Let's rank them from worst to best.

February 23, 2025 · 1 min · 63 words · Joel Rodriguez

This year’s nominations for Best Cinematography at the 2025 Academy Awards make for an especially tight race.

Pretty muchany of these nominees would deserve a win here, and that’s rare in any category.

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Bill Skarsgård creeping in the shadows, showing his clawed hand as Count Orlok on the poster for Nosferatu.

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Selena Gomez as Jessi dancing at the center of a group of people in a darkened club with neon lights

Image via Netflix

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas looking out a window in Maria

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Feyd Rautha (Austin Butler) and Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet) face off in ‘Dune: Part 2’

Image via Warner Bros. Pictures

The side of Count Orlok’s (Bill Skarsgard) face is seen in ‘Nosferatu’

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Adrien Brody staring at the ground with sparks rising in ‘The Brutalist’

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The Brutalist

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