For once I agree with at least one of the Oscar nominations.
Picking out Atonement for its cinematography agrees exactly with my own rating of the film when I went to it, and reviewed it on the blog, last October.
I quote myself:

I went to see Joe Wright’s Atonement last night, it is an amazing film.
I haven’t seen a film with such a sense of pictorial style since Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.
The shots and set pieces were just so wonderfully arranged, the swimming scene down by the lake could have been painted by Lavery, the tableau at the front door when Robbie returns with the twins was a visual delight with the young Bryony spiralling up the stairs in behind her sister.
The incredible panorama of Dunkirk beach was another beauty, unfortunately in this case one that went on too long.
It was probably just as well it was visually thrilling because the performances were singularly unengaging, Knightly’s particularly so.

It was only when my sister-in-law, Beth Cassidy from Armagh, made a comment that I discovered that the man responsible for the camera work was a neighbour of hers ; Seamus Mc Garvey, and one of our own.
Good luck with the Oscar Seamus.