Florian Hoffmeister

Florian Hoffmeister
Born1970 (age 53–54)
Braunschweig, West Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationGerman Film and Television Academy Berlin
Occupation(s)Cinematographer, director
SpouseMona Kino[1]
Websitehttp://florianhoffmeister.de/

Florian Hoffmeister, B.S.C. (born 1970), is a German cinematographer and director, best known for his work on Tár, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. Projects he has worked on include Five Days, House of Saddam and AMC's The Terror. He has collaborated with director Terence Davies on two occasions, working on The Deep Blue Sea and A Quiet Passion. His other credits include In Secret, Mortdecai and Johnny English Strikes Again.

Career

Hoffmeister graduated from high school in 1989 and got his first job as an intern electrician on a film production.[2] He studied directing and cinematography at Berlin's German Film and Television Academy. His first film, Three Degrees Colder [de] won him a Silver Leopard for Best First Feature Film at the Locarno International Film Festival. A major breakthrough would come in 2011 when he served as the primary cinematographer on the British television mini-series Great Expectations, winning him an Emmy, a BAFTA, and the ASC award. He was listed by Variety in its "10 Cinematographers to Watch" list.[3]

In 2016, he directed The Have-Nots [de], a film based on the novel by Katharina Hacker.[4] The film is notably in black and white, which Hoffmeister explained as a strategy to "change how the audience in the theatres would view reality and whether the film would strike an emotional impact on them".[1]

Hoffmeister was hired to shoot Scott Cooper's horror film Antlers.[5]

Filmography

Director

Short film

  • Stimmen der Welt (1998)

Feature film

Cinematographer

Short film

Year Title Director
1997 Die Drehtür Anne Høegh Krohn
2010 The Pizza Miracle Tony Grisoni
Study After Cruel Intentions Saam Farahmand
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl: Somebody to Love Me

Feature film

Year Title Director
2000 Paul Is Dead [de] Henk Handloegten
2001 Berlin is in Germany Hannes Stöhr
2002 Kismet - Würfel Dein Leben! Lars Kraume
2003 Learning to Lie Henk Handloegten
2005 One Day in Europe Hannes Stöhr
2011 The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
2013 In Secret Charlie Stratton
2015 Mortdecai David Koepp
2016 A Quiet Passion Terence Davies
2018 Johnny English Strikes Again David Kerr
2019 Official Secrets Gavin Hood
2020 Divine Jan Schomburg
2021 Antlers Scott Cooper
2022 Tár Todd Field
2025 The Roses † Jay Roach

Television

Year Title Director Notes
2003 Polizeiruf 110 Buddy Giovinazzo Episode "Tiefe Wunden"
Mutterkind Alfa Conradt TV short
Tatort Buddy Giovinazzo Episode "3 x schwarzer Kater"
2007 Five Days Otto Bathurst
Simon Curtis 		Series One
Post Mortem Elmar Fischer Episode "Notwehr"
2009 10 Minute Tales Tony Grisoni Episode "Syncing"
2011 Silk Peter Moffat Episodes "The Bitter End" and "High and Dry"
2012 Playhouse Presents Jim Cartwright Episode "King of the Teds"
2014 Hysteria Otto Bathurst Pilot
2018 The Terror Edward Berger Episodes "Go for Broke", "Gore" and "Punished, as a Boy"
2022 Pachinko Kogonada 4 episodes
2024 True Detective Issa López Season 4 ("Night Country")

Documentary series

Year Title Director Notes
2007 First Cut Pat O'Mahony Episode "Sleep with Me"
2012 British Legends of Stage and Screen Anthony Fabian Episode "Christopher Lee"

Miniseries

Year Title Director
2008 House of Saddam Alex Holmes
Jim O'Hanlon
2009 The Prisoner Nick Hurran
2011 Great Expectations Brian Kirk

TV movies

Year Title Director
2004 The Hamburg Cell Antonia Bird
2006 Cracker
Der beste Lehrer der Welt Lars Becker
2008 A Number James Macdonald
2009 Sleep With Me Marc Jobst
Margot Otto Bathurst

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year Category Title Result
2022 Best Cinematography Tár Nominated

American Society of Cinematographers

Year Category Title Result
2011 Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Made for Television[6] Great Expectations Won
2018 The Terror (For episode "Go for Broke" ) Nominated

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year Category Title Result
2009 Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie The Prisoner (For episode "Checkmate") Nominated
2011 Great Expectations (For episode "Part 2") Won[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Pritchard, Tiffany. "Tallinn Q&A: Florian Hoffmeister discusses sophomore movie 'The Have-Nots'". Screen Daily. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  2. ^ "Directors - Florian Hoffmeister". Ankara Cinema Association. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  3. ^ Anderson, John (13 February 2014). "Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch". Variety. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Kiang, Jessica (3 July 2016). "Film Review: 'The Have-Nots'". Variety. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  5. ^ Marc, Christopher (13 August 2018). "Update: Scott Cooper's 'Antlers' Produced by Guillermo Del Toro Shoots October–November in Vancouver". Geeks WorldWide. Retrieved Sep 23, 2018.
  6. ^ "ASC Annual Awards - 2019". American Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved Oct 24, 2019.
  7. ^ "2012 Primetime Emmys Creative Arts - Winners" (PDF). Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved December 21, 2019.

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