And the Golden Globe for Best Cinematography goes to...

[JPNola]

Apparently, unless I am misguided, the Golden Globes does not have an award for Best Cinematography and hasn't since they retired the category back in 1963. Why the heck not? That's bullsh*t! They give out an award for best motion picture score. The person who scores the film merits an award but the person who lenses the film and crafts every single shot the audience sees does not?

I am obviously biased as a result of my being a cameraman / DP, but it seems that DP's don't get the respect they deserve. On IMDB the homepage for any film it lists the Director, the Writer, and a huge portion of the cast all the way down to actors who only had a very small part. But nowhere on the homepage for the film is the Director of Photography listed. And same with the Rotten Tomatoes listings of films. The Director is listed, the Writer(s), Cast, Studio, runtime...but no DP citation.

Producers typically receive billing over the DP, and I get that. The film wouldn't have happened without the Producers. But if you have ever been on a film set and seen the Producers sitting there all day playing on their smartphones, eating snacks and socializing while the DP is completely consumed with the making of the film you'll have no doubt as to who had a greater hand in what appears on the screen.

 

[DLD]

The Golden Globes is more of a PR show compared to Oscars, sort of like the American Music Awards to Grammy's.

Plus, if one goes back in history and recalls Pia Zadora taking the top prize ...

 

[puredrifting]

Awards and award shows are just ego masturbation, at best, anyway. Hollywood is just high school V2, why would anyone watch this crap or care about it? When I used to have an office, we had a trophy case full of awards, they were all BS, clients occasionally glanced at them but as far as an acknowledgement of the quality of our work, they meant nothing. GGs, Oscars, etc. are all just this with a better caterer ;-) As a DP, if someone has ASC after their name means more, at least they were recognized by their peers instead of a bunch of drunken European "journalists".

 

[DLD]

There was a "Taxi" episode where the plot line was the company going out of business, with the drivers all having to find temporary gigs. The premise was kind of/sort of based on the WGA writers strike from the year before. Tony Banta (Tony Danza) ends up working as an enforce for the mob. He is told to go to a big time sitcom writer office and smack him over the head before collecting a gambling debt. Tony can't bring himself up to hit the guy (in the show, Tony is an ex-boxer, as was Tony Danza himself), though the writer doesn't have the money. In exchange, the writer hands him over an Emmy. The "inside joke" was that the Emmy's statuettes on the writer's desk were Taxi's own.

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Apparently, unless I am misguided, the Golden Globes does not have an award for Best Cinematography and hasn't since they retired the category back in 1963. Why the heck not? That's bullsh*t! They give out an award for best motion picture score. The person who scores the film merits an award but the person who lenses the film and crafts every single shot the audience sees does not?

I am obviously biased as a result of my being a cameraman / DP, but it seems that DP's don't get the respect they deserve. On IMDB the homepage for any film it lists the Director, the Writer, and a huge portion of the cast all the way down to actors who only had a very small part. But nowhere on the homepage for the film is the Director of Photography listed. And same with the Rotten Tomatoes listings of films. The Director is listed, the Writer(s), Cast, Studio, runtime...but no DP citation.

Producers typically receive billing over the DP, and I get that. The film wouldn't have happened without the Producers. But if you have ever been on a film set and seen the Producers sitting there all day playing on their smartphones, eating snacks and socializing while the DP is completely consumed with the making of the film you'll have no doubt as to who had a greater hand in what appears on the screen.

The Golden Globes to me have always been sort of like 'audience' representatives... that is less technical more 'how well did the audience respond as an 'viewer'', than either artistic achievement or technical expertise.

The Emmy's have several categories of 'cinematography' for the various TV show styles.