Florian Hoffmeister

Florian Hoffmeister
Born	1970 (age 53–54) Braunschweig, West Germany
Nationality	German
Education	German Film and Television Academy Berlin
Occupation(s)	Cinematographer, director
Spouse	Mona Kino[1]
Website	http://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

• Three Degrees Colder [de] (2005) (Also writer)
• The Have-Nots [de] (2016) (Also co-producer)

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. 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.

Further reading

• interview with Florian Hoffmeister - EXPOSURE Issue 41 Winter 2008 Fujifilm

External links

• Official Website
• Florian Hoffmeister at IMDb