Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Biography

Autumn Cheyenne Durald Arkapaw (née Durald; born December 14, 1979) is an American cinematographer. For her work on the film Sinners (2025), she became the first woman of colour (Arkapaw is of Filipino and Black Creole descent) to be nominated, and the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. On television, she received a nomination at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for her work on the Loki episode "Lamentis" (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Autumn Durald Arkapaw, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

• ★Academy Award — Best Cinematography · 2026