The following is a list of winners of the Golden Arena for Best Cinematography at the
Pula Film Festival
Pula Film Festival ( hr, Pulski filmski festival) is an annual Croatian film festival, established in 1954. It is held in a Roman amphitheater known as the Pula Arena. Pula Film Festival is the oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held in ...
.
Yugoslav competition (1955–1990)
Croatian competition (1992–present)
Notes
:A. Although the festival was opened on 26 July 1991 and a press screening of
Zrinko Ogresta
Zrinko Ogresta (born 5 October 1958) is a Croatian screenwriter and film director, professor of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and a member of the European Film Academy in Berlin. Praised for their strong visual style, ...
's film ''Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing'' was held, the festival board presided by
Antun Vrdoljak
Antun Vrdoljak (; born 5 June 1931) is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he becam ...
decided to cancel the festival, as a sign of protest against violence related to the
Ten-Day War
The Ten-Day War ( sl, desetdnevna vojna), or the Slovenian War of Independence (), was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. It was fought between the separatists of the ...
in Slovenia and the initial stages of the
Croatian War of Independence
The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugosl ...
. Nine films were supposed to be screened in the competition program.
:B. : The awards ceremony was cancelled in 1994 as only one Croatian feature film was made in the preceding 12 months (
Bogdan Žižić
Bogdan Žižić (8 November 1934 – 29 April 2021)Zagreb School of Animated Film and documentaries, while the main program featured premieres of six American movies.
Multiple winners
The following cinematographers have received multiple awards. Years in bold indicate wins in Yugoslav competition (1955–1990).
*8 :
Tomislav Pinter
Tomislav Pinter (16 June 1926 – 15 August 2008) was a Croatian cinematographer, regarded as the most significant cinematographer in Croatian cinema due to the artistic quality of his work and his prolific career spanning almost five decades.
Af ...
Goran Trbuljak
Goran Trbuljak (born 21 April 1948 in Varaždin) is a Croatian cinematographer, photographer and conceptual artist.
Trbuljak had first studied at the graphic arts department of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated from in 1972. Af ...
(1984, 1986, 1992, 1997, 1998)
*4 :
Aleksandar Sekulović
Aleksandar Sekulović (25 September 1918 – 28 August 1974) was an award-winning Yugoslavian cinematographer.
Sekulović started his career in the late 1940s, shooting newsreels commissioned by the Yugoslav People's Army. His first experience w ...
(1956, 1957, 1959, 1962)
*4 :
Mirko Pivčević
Mirko Pivčević (born 8 August 1975) is a Croatian cinematographer.
Pivčević's career began in the late 1990s, with a string of short documentary films and music videos. His first feature film was ''Alone'' (''Sami'', 2001), which won him his ...
(2001, 2004, 2007, 2009)
*3 :
Živko Zalar
Živko Zalar (born 24 April 1948 in Zagreb) is a Croatian cinematographer, son of Croatian cinematographer Slavko Zalar.
Zalar began making films as an amateur at the Kino Klub Zagreb, before going on to study cinematography at the Academy of P ...
Frano Vodopivec
Frano Vodopivec (4 July 1924 – 13 March 1998) was a Croatian cinematographer.
Background
Vodopivec first began working with film and photography in high school and during World War II he worked at ''Hrvatski slikopis'', the state-sponsored f ...
Božidar Nikolić
Božidar "Bota" Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Божидар Бота Николић; 1 January 1942 – 13 May 2021) was a Serbian film director and screenwriter.
He directed the films ''Balkan Spy'', ''The Dark Side of the Sun'', ''Three Tickets to Hol ...
Slobodan Trninić
Slobodan Trninić (born 14 January 1953) is a Croatian cinematographer.
Trninić graduated from the University of Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts in 1979, and his first feature film was the 1991 Yugoslav film ''Virgina'' ( sh, Virdžina), directed ...
(1993, 2010)
See also
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Cinema of Yugoslavia
The Cinema of Yugoslavia were the films produced in Yugoslavia.
Overview
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had an internationally acclaimed film industry. Yugoslavia submitted many films to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Langua ...
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Cinema of Croatia
The cinema of Croatia has a somewhat shorter tradition than what is common for other Central European countries: the serious beginning of Croatian cinema starts with the rise of the Yugoslavian film industry in the 1940s. Three Croatian feat ...