99 Of The Most Stunning Shots In Movie History

A visual essay on beautiful cinematography.

1.

20th Century Fox

Star Wars (1977)

2.

Criterion

Solaris (1972)

3.

Columbia Pictures

The Fifth Element (1997)

4.

Warner Bros.

Gravity (2013)

5.

Universal Pictures

Inside Man (2006)

6.

Lionsgate

Sicario (2015)

7.

Paramount Pictures

Mission: Impossible (1996)

8.

Columbia

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

9.

United Artists

Raging Bull (1980)

10.

MGM

Creed (2015)

11.

Dreamworks

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

12.

MGM

Quantum of Solace (2008)

13.

Universal

Blackhat (2015)

14.

Grammercy Pictures

Fargo (1996)

15.

Warner Bros.

Empire of the Sun (1987)

16.

Walt Disney

TRON: Legacy (2010)

17.

Warner Bros.

The Great Gatsby (2013)

18.

Picturehouse

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

19.

Miramax

Hero (2002)

20.

Allied Artists

Cabaret (1972)

21.

Broad Green Pictures

Knight of Cups (2015)

22.

Orion Pictures

The Terminator (1984)

23.

Warner Bros.

The Dark Knight (2008)

24.

The Weinstein Company

Macbeth (2015)

25.

Miramax

No Country For Old Men (2008)

26.

Dreamworks

Road to Perdition (2002)

27.

VICE

A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)

28.

MGM

Skyfall (2012)

29.

Paramount Classics

The Machinist (2004)

30.

StudioCanal

Song of the Sea (2014)

31.

The Weinstein Company

The King's Speech (2010)

32.

Buena Vista

Hotel Chevalier (2007)

33.

Warner Bros.

Her (2013)

34.

Warner Independent

Before Sunset (1995)

35.

Fox Searchlight

Never Let Me Go (2010)

36.

Fox Searchlight

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

37.

Summit

The Hurt Locker (2008)

38.

Fox Searchlight

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

39.

Summit Entertainment

The Impossible (2012)

40.

Cohen Media Group

Timbuktu (2014)

41.

Paramount Pictures

True Grit (1969)

42.

United Artists

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

43.

Warner Bros.

The Matrix (1999)

44.

Roadside Attractions

The Fall (2006)

45.

UGC Fox

Amélie (2001)

46.

Paramount Pictures

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

47.

Universal Pictures

The Blues Brothers (1980)

48.

A24

Slow West (2015)

49.

Paramount Pictures

Zodiac (2007)

50.

20th Century Fox

The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

51.

Warner Bros.

The Iron Giant (1999)

52.

Miramax

City of God (2002)

53.

Magnolia

Tangerine (2015)

54.

Warner Bros.

Magic Mike XXL (2015)

55.

Sony Pictures Classics

Midnight In Paris (2011)

56.

Universal Pictures

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)

57.

20th Century Fox

Alien (1979)

58.

Dreamworks

American Beauty (1999)

59.

New Line Cinema

Dark City (1998)

60.

Focus Features

Brick (2005)

61.

MGM

Network (1976)

62.

Warner Bros.

Beetlejuice (1988)

63.

Sony Pictures Classics

House of Flying Daggers (2004)

64.

Netflix

Beasts of No Nation (2015)

65.

20th Century Fox

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

66.

Focus Features

The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

67.

Universal Pictures

Casino (1995)

68.

20th Century Fox

Big (1988)

69.

Paramount Pictures

World War Z (2013)

70.

MGM

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

71.

RADIUS-TWC

Only God Forgives (2013)

72.

20th Century Fox

Kagemusha (1980)

73.

New Line Cinema

The Cell (2000)

74.

Miramax

Pulp Fiction (1995)

75.

Columbia

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

76.

Toho

Spirited Away (2001)

77.

Universal Pictures

Ex Machina (2015)

78.

Buena Vista

The Sixth Sense (1999)

79.

Paramount Pictures

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

80.

Warner Bros.

Falling Down (1993)

81.

Universal Pictures

The Breakfast Club (1985)

82.

Warner Bros.

All The President's Men (1976)

83.

Buena Vista Pictures

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

84.

Buena Vista

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)

85.

20th Century Fox

Minority Report (2002)

86.

Buena Vista

Léon (1994)

87.

Palace Pictures

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

88.

Focus Features

The Pianist (2002)

89.

Warner Bros.

Inception (2010)

90.

Warner Bros.

The Shining (1980)

91.

Columbia

Marie Antoinette (2006)

92.

Warner Bros.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

93.

Paramount Pictures

The Ten Commandments (1956)

94.

Disney

The Lion King (1994)

95.

Village Roadshow

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

96.

Fox Searchlight

Sunshine (2007)

97.

Warner Bros.

Watchmen (2009)

98.

British Lion Films

The Wicker Man (1973)

99.

Paramount Pictures

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

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