I actually voted for Les Misérables. I thought it had the most impressive set design.

My second favorite chart of all the categories. Talk about a comeback from Life of Pi. It was again the last nominee to receive a vote here and still trailed Anna Karenina by 6 votes with 12 to go.

they gon get crushed easily

Talk about close race

2 votes away. Both winners got 12, while Hobbit got 10, and Lincoln 9.

My favorite breakdwon so far, love how close it was.

I have the honor to present David's speech for Best Cinematography

Talk about close.

Glad I voted! Go Life of Pi!

I thought it was gonna win, didn't realize Anna K. had such a strong base.

I think I might know which one is your favorite chart

The Art Direction is AK is superb.

Best cinematography

To create a cinematic image, to move through each step (from composition to lighting and so on) in pursuit of an image which captures the eye of the moviegoer and also conveys and enhances the film's story and theme, is no simple feat. This category honors five directors of photography the World of KJ community believe to be exemplary architects of the motion-picture image.





In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Andrew Lesnie, along with director and co-writer Peter Jackson, returns audiences to the epic and mystical land of Middle-earth almost a decade after the conclusion of their Lord of the Rings trilogy. From dramatic aerial views of combat and pursuit to intimate moments of magic and menace, Lesnie's eye is as spot-on as ever as he also experiments with a new, exciting, and, yes, divisive technology: high-frame-rate 3-D, with its crystal-clear sense of depth and motion.

Also creating a spectacular and vivid 3-D experience is Claudio Miranda in director Ang Lee's Life of Pi. An adventurous and spiritual fable, a large part of the film focuses on just two characters: an orphaned Indian lad and the computer generated Bengal tiger he floats alongside after a disaster at sea. It falls then to Miranda to ensure the images remain beautiful, inventive, involving, and transcendent as he and Lee tell this most visual story, a tale so simple, yet, in its own way, so complex.



For his period political drama Lincoln, director Steven Spielberg turns again to Janusz Kaminski, who creates a characteristic and singular vision of candlelit 19th-century Washington, D.C. through dramatic, often almost monochromatic lighting. His atmospheric and intimate camera brings the viewer inside the personal and political world of the beloved Abraham Lincoln while also recognizing the limited nature of historical cinematic representation and thus preserving an air of the mysterious and the nostalgic.





In The Master, a bold and cryptic drama focused on the emergence of a new religion in America after the Second World War, director Paul Thomas Anderson and director of photography Mihai Malaimare Jr. create dense and splendid 70-millimeter images which give the storyline, which spirits its colorful and fractured characters from the scorching hot Arizona desert to the mist enshrouded English countryside and elsewhere, a meditative and mythic scope.

And in Sam Mendes' Skyfall, Roger Deakins envisions and realizes the most beautiful, elegant, and textured James Bond film to date. From the crisp and severe halls of power in London and the bright, pulsating nocturnal menace of Shanghai to the haunting isolation of rural Scotland, he captures awe-inspiring locations and creates inspired set pieces in which the iconic British secret agent can chase, fight, romance, and contend with his age, sense of duty, and place in the ever changing modern world.

And the award for best cinematography goes to:

SKYFALL!!!!!

It doesn't, I bet David did some "favors" to get mmor votes.

Yes, another go for Skyfall

Skyfall was great.

Another entry in the growing list of single award winners

Life of Pi - 2
Anna Karenina - 2
Silver Linings Playbook - 1
Hobbit -1
Cloud Atlas -1
Wreck it Ralph - 1
Bully - 1
The Cabin in the Woods - 1
Django Unchained - 1
Rust and Bone - 1
The Dark Knight Rises - 1
Skyfall - 1

Breakthrough : Jennifer Lawrence

YES

Fucking amazing cinematography.

I thought it'd be a runaway win...but it sure as hell wasn't.

Agreed, the cinematography enhanced the entire experience exponentially.

Indeed, WTF

Yes indeed. It was the best thing about the film by far and its also evident in the first trailer that came out.

And thankfully it beat out Pi.