Raigam Tele'es Best Teledrama Lighting & Cameraman Award

The Raigam Tele'es Best Teledrama Lighting & Cameraman Award is presented annually in Sri Lanka by the Kingdom of Raigam associated with many commercial brands for the best Sri Lankan cinematographer of the year in television. ^[1]

The award was first given in 2005. Following is a list of the winners of this prestigious title since then.

Award list in each year

Year	Best Cinematographer	Teledrama	Ref.
2004
2005
2006	Daya Suriyarachchi	Katu Imbula	[2]
2007	K. A. Dharmasena	Uthuwankande Saradiel	[3]
2008
2009	Dhammika Dissanayake	Arungal	[4]
2010	Dhammika Rathnayake		[5]
2011	Chinthaka Somakeerthi	Kadadora	[6]
2012	Upul Prajan	Dhawala Kadulla	[7]
2013	Dhammika Rathnayake	Appachchi	[8]
2014	Thisara Thulwan	Chess	[9]
2015	Chinthaka Somakeerthi	Kaviya Numba	[10]
2016	Sajitha Weerapperuma	One Way	[11]
2017	Kularuwan Gamage	Shvetha Ganthira	[12]
2018	Striner Adams	Koombiyo	[13]
2019	Sisikirana Pranavitharana	Sudu Andagena Kalu Awidin	[14]
2020	Thisara Thulvan	Thanamalvila Kollek	[15]
2021	Ravindra Samaranayake	Sakarma	[15]
2024	Charith Abeysinghe	Chandi Kumarihami	[16]

References

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