A look at the cameras and gear used to capture all of the 2019 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture and Best Cinematography.

ARRI maintains their stranglehold as the standard cinema camera package for Oscar-nominated films. Check out the cameras and lenses behind 2019’s Oscar-nominees for Best Motion Picture and Best Cinematography to see what cameras made the list. (You can find previous nominees here: 2018, 2017, 2016.)

A Star Is Born

Oscar Nominations: 8 — Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, Best Sound Mixing

Director: Bradley Cooper

Director of Photography: Matthew Libatique

Camera: ARRI Alexa Mini

Lenses: Angenieux Optimo Anamorphic 30-72 & 56-152 Lenses, Cooke Anamorphic/i SF Camtec Vintage Series, Kowa Cine Prominar

Recording Format: Codex ARRIRAW (2.8K) (3.4K)

Black Panther

Oscar Nominations: 7 — Best Picture, Best Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design

Director: Ryan Coogler

Director of Photography: Rachel Morrison

Camera: ARRI Alexa XT Plus

Lenses: Panavision Primo

Recording Format: Codex ARRIRAW (3.4K)

BlacKkKlansman

Oscar Nominations: 6 —Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing

Director: Spike Lee

Director of Photography: Chayse Irvin

Camera: Aaton Penelope, Aaton XTR Prod, Arricam LT, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2

Lenses: Zeiss Master Prime, Panavision Super Speed MKII, Ultra Speed MKII, PVintage

Recording Format: 16 mm (Eastman Double-X 7222) and 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 250D 5207, Vision3 500T 5219, Eastman Double-X 5222, Ektachrome 100D 5285)

Bohemian Rhapsody

Oscar Nominations: 5 — Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Film Editing

Director: Bryan Singer

Director of Photography: Newton Thomas Sigel

Camera: ARRI Alexa 65, ARRI Alexa SXT, Arriflex 35 BL

Lenses: Hasselblad Prime DNA & Prime 65-S, Cooke Speed Panchro

Recording Format: ARRIRAW (6.5K) (3.4K)

Cold War

Oscar Nominations: 3 —Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign-Language Film

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Director of Photography: Lukasz Zal

Camera: ARRI Alexa XT

Lenses: Cooke S5, Zeiss Ultra Prime, Angenieux Optimo

Recording Format: Codex ARRIRAW (3.4K)

The Favourite

Oscar Nominations: 10 — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan

Camera: Arricam LT, Arricam ST, Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL2

Lenses: Panavision PVintage, Nikon Nikkor

Recording Format: 35 mm (Kodak)

Green Book

Oscar Nominations: 5 — Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing

Director: Peter Farrelly

Director of Photography: Sean Porter

Camera: ARRI Alexa Mini

Lenses: Leica Summilux-C

Recording Format: ARRIRAW (3.4K)

Never Look Away

Oscar Nominations: 2 — Best Cinematography, Best Foreign-Language Film

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Director of Photography: Caleb Deschanel

Camera: ARRI Alexa XT Plus

Lenses: Zeiss Master Prime

Recording Format: ARRIRAW

Roma

Oscar Nominations: 10 — Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Foreign-Language Film, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design

Director: Alfonso Cuaron

Director of Photography: Alfonso Cuaron

Camera: ARRI Alexa 65

Lenses: Prime 65

Recording Format: ARRIRAW

Vice

Oscar Nominations: 8 — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing

Director: Adam McKay

Director of Photography: Greig Fraser

Camera: Arricam LT, Arricam ST, Arriflex 235, Arriflex 435, Bolex

Lenses: Cooke Anamorphic/i, Todd-AO, Zeiss Super Speed, Angenieux HR

Recording Format: 16 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 7219), 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 200T 5213, Vision3 500T 5219) and 8 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219)

The 2019 Academy Awards will be presented on February 24th at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

Cover image via A Star Is Born (Clay Enos/Warner Bros./Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).