Top-Tier Contenders
- 1 Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
- 2 Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
- 3 Captain Phillips – Barry Ackroyd
- 4 The Wolf of Wall Street – Rodrigo Preito
- 5 Prisoners – Roger Deakins
- 6 A Most Wanted Man - Benoît Delhomme
- 7 The Immigrant - Darius Khondji
- 8 Out of the Furnace – Masanobu Takayanagi
- 9 12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt
- 10 Serena - Morten Søborg
- 11 Rush – Anthony Dod Mantle
- 12 To the Wonder – Emmanuel Lubezki
- 13 Her - Hoyte van Hoytema
- 14 Stories We Tell – Iris Ng
- 15 The Monuments Men - Phedon Papamichael
Also In Contention
- 16 The Butler – Andrew Dunn
- 17 Can a Song Save Your Life? – Yaron Orbach
- 18 Frances Ha – Sam Levy
- 19 The Past - Mahmoud Kalari
- 20 Nymphomaniac – Manuel Alberto Claro
- 21 The Railway Man – Garry Phillips
- 22 Much Ado About Nothing – Jay Hunter
- 23 Dead Man’s Burden – Robert Hauer
- 24 Oldboy – Sean Bobbitt
- 25 Star Trek Into Darkness – Daniel Mindel
- 26 Winter’s Tale – Caleb Deschanel
- 27 Before Midnight - Christos Voudouris
- 28 Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
- 29 Foxcatcher – Greig Fraser
- 30 The Fifth Estate – Tobias A. Schliessler
