Each year, the Fargo Film Festival juries award Best Cinematography to a recipient chosen from nominated movies in competition.

2024: Jeong-seok Park (Children of Light)
2023: Farahad Ghaderi (Kassandra)
2022: Xavi Amoros (Nsenene)
2021: Roman Hodel (The Game)
2020: Peter Nelson (The Pollinators)

2019: Jeremy Comte (Fauve)
2018: Tobias von dem Borne (Brimstone and Glory)
2017: Olcay Oguz (Black Ring)
2016: Jeroen Pool (The Cut)
2015: Bo Hakala (Strangers)
2014: J. Christian Jensen (White Earth)
2013: Simon Dennis (Dimensions)
2012: Will Basanta (Jess + Moss)
2011: Brian Baugh (The Butterfly Circus)
2010: Carlos Crespo, Cesar Perez Hurtado, Guillermo Ruiz and Gustavo Soto (The Gift of Pachamama)

2009: Ed Talavera (One Water)
2008: Matthew Heckerling (Hard Scrambled)
2007: Michael Alba (A Cigar at the Beach)