Golden Globe Award / Best Cinematography

Golden Globe Award : Best Camera

Winners and nominees in the category Best Cinematography ( Best Cinematography ), which until 1963 honored the most outstanding achievements of cameramen in the previous calendar year of the 1948th From 1950 onwards, two films received awards, one in black and white and one in color. Franz Planer won the award most often (1950, 1951 and 1952), and in 1952 there was another nomination.

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.

1940s

1948

Jack Cardiff - The Black Narcissus

1949

Gabriel Figueroa - The Pearl (La perla)

1950s

1950

Camera B / W

Franz Planer - Between Women and Ropes (Champion)

• Burnett Guffey - The man who wanted to rule (All the King's Men)

Camera color

Walt Disney Studios - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)

• This is New York (On the Town)

1951

Camera B / W

Franz Planer - The Last Musketeer (Cyrano de Bergerac)

• John F. Seitz - Boulevard of Dawn (Sunset Boulevard)
• Harold Rosson - The Asphalt Jungle (The Asphalt Jungle)

Camera color

Robert Surtees - King Solomon's Mines (King Solomon's Mines)

• George Barnes - Samson and Delilah (Samson and Delilah)
• Ernest Palmer - The Broken Arrow

1952

Camera B / W

Franz Planer - The Death of a Salesman

• Franz Planer - Decision Before Dawn (Decision Before Dawn)
• William C. Mellor - A Place in the Sun (A Place in the Sun)

Camera color

Robert Surtees , William V. Skall - Quo vadis?

1953

Camera B / W

Floyd Crosby - Twelve Noon (High Noon)

• Hal Mohr - Das Himmelbett (The Four Poster)
• Sam Leavitt - I'm a Nuclear Spy (The Thief)

Camera color

George Barnes , J. Peverell Marley - The Greatest Show on Earth (The Greatest Show on Earth)

1954

Prize not awarded

1955

Camera B / W

Boris Kaufman - The Fist in the Neck (On the Waterfront)

Camera color

Joseph Ruttenberg - Brigadoon

1956 - 1959

Prize not awarded

1960s

1960 - 1962

Prize not awarded

1963

Camera B / W

Henri Persin , Walter Wottitz , Jean Bourgoin - The Longest Day (The Longest Day)

Camera color

Freddie Young - Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)