"The Shawshank Redemption" — 67th Academy Awards in 1995
Lost to: John Toll, "Legends of the Fall"
"Fargo" — 69th Academy Awards in 1997
Lost to: John Seale, "The English Patient"
"Kundun" — 70th Academy Awards in 1998
Lost to: Russell Carpenter, "Titanic"
"O Brother, Where Art Thou?" — 73rd Academy Awards in 2001
Lost to: Peter Pau, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
"The Man Who Wasn't There" — 74th Academy Awards in 2002
Lost to: Andrew Lesnie, "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
"No Country for Old Men" — 80th Academy Awards in 2008 (nominated twice in the same year)
Lost to: Robert Elswit, "There Will be Blood"
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"— 80th Academy Awards in 2008 (nominated twice in the same year)
Lost to: Robert Elswit, "There Will be Blood"
"The Reader" — 81st Academy Awards in 2009
Lost to: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
"True Grit — 83rd Academy Awards in 2011
Lost to: Wally Pfister, "Inception"
"Skyfall" — 85th Academy Awards in 2013
Lost to: Robert Richardson, "Hugo"
"Prisoners" — 86th Academy Awards in 2014
Lost to: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Gravity"
"Unbroken" — 87th Academy Awards in 2015
Lost to: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)"
"Sicario" — 88th Academy Awards in 2016
Lost to: Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Revenant"
"Blade Runner 2029" — 90th Academy Awards in 2018
Lost to: No one! He finally won.
