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Terrence Malick's last three films -- "Days of Heaven" (1978), "The Thin Red Line" (1998), and "The New World" (2005) -- broke into the Best Cinematography race with "Days" winning. His "New World" collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki returned for this year's "The Tree of Life." This is Lubezki's fifth nomination.
Robert Richardson's nomination for "Hugo" is his seventh. Richardson won in 2004 for Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" and had previously won for "JFK" (1991). His most recent nod was for "Inglourious Basterds" (2009).
Photographed by first-time nominee Guillaume Schiffman, "The Artist" is a period film shot in black-and-white like recent nominees "The White Ribbon" (2009) and "Good Night, and Good Luck" (2005), though neither of those films won.
Jeff Cronenweth was cited for "The Social Network" just last year. He reteams with that film's director David Fincher this year on "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (2008) also found its way into this category.
Janusz Kaminski, who regularly collaborates with Steven Spielberg, is a serious contender for "War Horse." He has won honors for Spielberg's war epics "Schindler's List" (1993) and "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) and was a nominee for "Amistad" (1997) and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007).
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