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My "classic" 5 would be:

 

1. Jack Cardiff

2. Gregg Toland

3. Freddie Young

4. Rollie Totheroh

5. Chris Challis

 

Modern 5 would be:

 

1. Vilmos Zsigmond

2. Roger Deakins

3. Connie Hall

4. Vittorio Storaro

5. David Mullen (This is no flattery. His advice has been hugely important to me, and it's been a great pleasure to watch his increasing success)

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Can't leave it at five so I will go to eleven.

 

Robby Müller (Paris Texas/To Live and Die in L.A./Repo Man)

 

Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver/Raging Bull)

 

Tonino Delli Colli (Once Upon a Time in the West/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/Once Upon a Time in America)

 

Vilmos Zsigmond (The Deer Hunter)

 

Gordon Willis (Klute/ The Godfather I & II/ The Parallax View)

 

John Alcott (All Kubrick)

 

Chung-hoon Chung (Oldboy)

 

Barry Sonnenfeld (Blood Simple/Millers Crossing)

 

Emmanuel Lubezki, (Y tu mamá también/Children of Men)

 

Darius Khondji (se7en, Delicatessen)

 

Peter Suschitzky (History of Violence)

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In no order.

 

- Miroslav Ondrícek

- Haskell Wexler

- Dante Spinotti (before he 'discovered' digital)

- Emmanuel Lubezki

- Vilmos Zsigmond & László Kovács

 

 

...and if the list was bigger than top 5:

 

Robby Müller, Michael Chapman, Darius Khondji, Lance Accord, Harris Savides & John Toll

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Roger Deakins is my fav Assasination of Jesse James !!!

 

Other DP's that i love

 

Harris Savides-Elephant

Janusz Kaminski-Minority Report or Saving Private Ryan cant decide

Conrad L. Hall- Road to Perdition

Emmanuel Lubezki-The New World

Eric Gautier-Into the Wild

Rodrigo Prieto-21 Grams

Vittorio Storaro -The Conformist

Ron Fricke-Koyaanisqatsi/Baraka

Gregg Toland-Citizen Kane

Dion Beebe-Collateral

John Toll-Thin Red Line

Nestor Almendros-Days of Heaven

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Or Kazuo Miyagawa? Or Edward Tisse? Or Raoul Coutard? Subrata Mitra? Sergei Urusevsky? Aldo Graziati? Freddie Francis?

 

I mean, where do you start or stop? So much great work done by so many... I think that's why you have to consider these lists as not inclusive, just a list of personal favorites, and what's a favorite is not always easily defendable or not everyone is going to agree with it. Not everyone shares my love for Geoffrey Unsworth's work, but I still watch his stuff over and over again.

 

I'm always amazed that more people don't recognize the importance of Ozzie Morris, for example, in the history of cinematography.

 

Ozzie Morris is among the greatest for sure. I never saw any color like Huston's Moulin Rouge! Amazing!

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Me, probably, right now...

 

1. John Toll

2. Conrad Hall

3. Emmanuel Lubezki

4. Nestor Almendros

5. Chris Doyle

 

Honorable mention: Deakins, Fricke, Libatique, Toland, Lee Ping-Bin.

 

1) Carol Ballard (one of the greatest of all time)

 

The rest are either dead or retired;

 

2) Alex Thomson

3) Freddie Young

4) Ernest Haller

5) Oswald Morris

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Living: Roger Deakins

Vilmos Zsigmond

Wally Pfister

Raoul Coutard

Chris Challis

 

Deceased: Jack Cardiff

Gregg Toland

Ray Rennahan

Robert Surtees

Leon Shamroy

 

M. David Mullen because his posts on this forum have been invaluable to my work and he has surely been as great an influence to me as the other ten I listed.

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This is my first post here!

 

My currently top 5:

 

-Wally Pfister

-Emmanuel Lubezki

-Lance Acord

-Robert Elswit

-Dean Semler...

 

and so many others like: Enrique Chediak (28 Weeks Later), Laurent Barés (The Inside, Hitman), Peter Deming (Evil Dead II), Shelly Johnson (The Wolfman), Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria)...

 

I think I forgot many others...

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Current top ten and my 3 favorite films (cinematography-wise) of each:

 

1. Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, Fallen Angels, Limits of Control)

2. Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, Good Night and Good Luck)

3. Conrad Hall (Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Searching for Bobby Fisher)

4. Emmanuel Lubezki (The New World, Children of Men, Y tu mama tambien)

5. Harris Savides (Elephant, Zodiac, Gerry)

6. Lee Pin Bing (In the Mood for Love, Three Times, Flowers of Shanghai)

7. Roger Deakins (The Assassination of Jesse James, No Country for Old Men, The Man Who Wasn't There)

8. Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Manhattan, The Godfather Part II)

9. Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Catch Me If You Can, Schindler's List)

10. Lance Acord (Lost in Translation, Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich)

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I'm new to this forum, but anyway...

 

In no particular order:

 

-Guillermo Navarro!!

-Dariusz Wolski

-Bill Pope

-Jeff Cronenweth!!

-Claudio Miranda

-Wally Pfister

-Steven Soderbergh

-Matthew Libatique!!

-Gordon Willis

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