Goya Award for Best Cinematography

Goya Award for Best Cinematography
The 2026 recipient: Mauro Herce
Native namePremio Goya a la mejor fotografía
Awarded forBest cinematography in a Spanish film of the year
CountrySpain
Presented byAcademy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE)
First award1st Goya Awards (1986)
Most recent winnerMauro Herce
Sirāt (2025)
WebsiteOfficial website

The Goya Award for Best Cinematography (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor fotografía) is one of the Goya Awards presented annually by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) since the awards debuted in 1986. It is presented to a cinematographer for an outstanding work in one particular Spanish film.

Teodoro Escamilla was the first winner of the award for his work in Love, the Magician (1986). José Luis Alcaine holds the record of most nominations for this category with twenty, winning five of them. Javier Aguirresarobe is the most awarded in this category with six wins, for Prince of Shadows (1991), The Dog in the Manger (1996), The Others (2001), Soldiers of Salamina (2003) and The Sea Inside (2004). Guillermo Navarro also won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Pan's Labyrinth.

In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.