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German Film Award
Logo of the German Film Award since 2019
Current logo, since 2019
Awarded forAchievements in German cinema
VenueBerlin
CountryGermany
Presented byDeutsche Filmakademie
Formerly calledBundesfilmpreis
First awardedJune 6, 1951 (1951-06-06)
Websitedeutscher-filmpreis.de

The German Film Award (German: Deutscher Filmpreis),[note 1] also know as Lola after its prize statuette, is the national film award of Germany. It is presented at an annual ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the German film industry. Besides being the most important film award in Germany, it is also the most highly endowed German cultural award, with cash prizes in its current 20 categories totalling nearly three million euros.[2]

First awarded 1951 in West Germany under its former name Bundesfilmpreis (Federal Film Prize), the winners were decided by a government instated commission until 2004. Since 2005 the award has been organized by the Deutsche Filmakademie (German Film Academy), whose members preselect and vote on the nominees and winners in a process similar to that of the Oscar Academy. The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (currently Monika Grütters) has been responsible for oversight and funding of the award since 1999. The award ceremonies are traditionally held in Berlin.

The decades following the reunification of Germany in 1990 have seen continuous efforts by both the film community and the government to raise the award's prestige and underline its significance as a counterpart to the César Awards in France, or the Academy Awards in the United States.

History

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Predecessor awards

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The pre-war nazi era from 1933 to 1939 had already created a German national prize for literature and film called Deutscher Nationalpreis für Buch und Film.[3] The award was instated and funded by the Ministry of Propaganda. Recipients were limited to one film personality per year:

After the start of World War II, no further awards were presented.[3]

In August 1949, just weeks before post-war Germany was divided into two states, the region that would become East Germany introduced the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic (Nationalpreis der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik), which recognized both scientific and artistic achievements. The National Prize was awarded in three classes, endowed with 100,000 marks, 50,000 marks and 25,000 marks respectively. First class recipients with multiple wins included film directors Kurt Maetzig (1950, 1954, 1968) Günter Reisch (1961, 1980), and Konrad Wolf (1968, 1971, 1979); actors Eduard von Winterstein (1952, 1959), Günther Simon (1954, 1969), and Erwin Geschonneck (1961, 1968, 1986); cinematographers Karl Plintzner (1952, 1954), and Werner Bergmann (1968, 1971); as well as production designer Alfred Hirschmeier (1963, 1971). The award was last presented in 1989, the year before reunification.

Bundesfilmpreis 1951–1998

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One of the former trophies called Das Goldene Filmband, awarded from 1951 until 1998

West Germany took two more years to follow the East German example and create its own national film award. The Bundesfilmpreis was launched by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and was presented on June 6, 1951, during the 1st Berlin International Film Festival. Apart from 1952, when the award ceremony was held in Bonn, the coupling of the Berlinale with the Bundesfilmpreis continued for the next decades.

In the early years, the award had numerous trophies that were handed out for different categories. Aside from the main categories for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, most others from the inaugural edition were short lived, such as Film that promotes democratic values, due to constant changes of the awards constitution.[4] As a rule stated that the award would only be bestowed for outstanding achievements, not every category had a winner each year. Over time, the award in the shape of a film tape became the most common trophy, either in gold or silver. The Golden Bowl became the highest honour for Best Picture, however due to not being handed out for more than 17 years, the award was abolished in 1996.

Due to the confusing mechanism as well as changing categories, the award lost its relevance. With only a press conference and no televised broadcast, it did not attract the public's interest in West Germany. Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, constants efforts have been made to underline the award's significance as a national correlation to similar awards honours such as the Academy Awards or the Césars. In 1995 for the first time, winners were announced during a glamorous telecast in Friedrichstadt-Palast, one of the most prestigious venues of former East-Berlin.[5] In the following years, other locations were chosen that were symbolic for the once divided city, such as the Berlin Tempelhof Airport[6] or the Brandenburg Gate.[7]

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Deutscher Filmpreis 1999–2004

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Ansgar Frerich holding the Lola statuette he won 2019 as producer of the documentary Of Fathers and Sons

Since 1999 the award is commissioned by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, a post that had been created the year before.

From 1999 onwards, the various category winners are awarded a statuette, the Lola. The name was chosen in association with three different eras of German cinema: Marlene Dietrich's career-launching role in The Blue Angel (1933), Rainer Werner Fassbinder's post-war re-interpretation Lola (1981), and Tom Tykwer's internationally acclaimed Run Lola Run (1998).

Mechthild Schmidt, Partner of HouseWorks digital media, New York about her 1999 design: "I wanted to symbolize motion. Film IS movement. I wanted the statue to express confidence without being stern, strength without being static. It was important to me to give the "Deutschen Filmpreis" its own identity, not trying to borrow what other awards already successfully symbolize. While the Oscar is the strong, firm standing fighter and winner, I wanted the Filmprize statue to symbolize the dynamics of movement, the muse, the inspiration necessary to make a work of art, to become a winner. The movement is carried through to the asymmetrical conical base. Stylistically, I was looking for a timeless modern design as well as a historical reference to the first golden era of German film, the Art Deco in the 1920s."[8]

From 1999 to 2002 the show was televised by a private broadcaster ProSieben.[9] Since 2003 it has rotated each year between the two major German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF.

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Deutscher Filmpreis 2005–present

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Before the founding of the German Film Academy (Deutsche Filmakademie) in 2005, a single prize was awarded for cinematography, film editing, production design, and musical score in the category "Outstanding Singular Achievement".

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Categories

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Current awards

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Award German Title Introduced
Best Fiction Film Bester Spielfilm 1951
Best Documentary Film Bester Dokumentarfilm 2000
Best Children's Film Bester Kinderfilm 2000
Best Director Beste Regie 1951
Best Screenplay Bestes Drehbuch 1951
Best Actress Beste weibliche Hauptrolle 1954
Best Actor Beste männliche Hauptrolle 1954
Best Supporting Actress Beste weibliche Nebenrolle 1954
Best Supporting Actor Beste männliche Nebenrolle 1954
Best Cinematography Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung 1954
Best Film Editing Bester Schnitt 1972
Best Sound Beste Tongestaltung 1982
Best Film Music Beste Filmmusik 1954
Best Production Design Bestes Szenenbild 1957
Best Costume Design Bestes Kostümbild 2005
Best Makeup Design Bestes Maskenbild 2010
Best Visual Effects and Animation Beste visuelle Effekte und Animation 2020
Largest Audience Award Besucherstärkster Film 2014
Honorary Award Ehrenpreis 1962
Bernd Eichinger Award Bernd Eichinger Preis 2012

Special Awards

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The last three categories listed in the table above are unendowed special awards:

The Largest Audience Award was introduced in 2014, as a successor to the discontinued "Audience Award: Film of the Year". It is not voted upon, but simply given to the majoritarian German film production that had the largest cinema audience in the year preceding the award.

The full title of the Honorary Award is: "Honorary Award for Outstanding Contributions to German Cinema" (Ehrenpreis für herausragende Verdienste um den Deutschen Film). It is a lifetime achievement award that is usually given to one person per year, but that can be awarded to two people (or institutions) in one year. A select jury that includes the Academy president, as well as other Academy members and non-members, decides on the recipient.

The Bernd Eichinger Award was created in 2012 in memory of the German film producer Bernd Eichinger, who had died the year before. It is awarded to filmmakers or teams that "have made a significant contribution to cinema culture through artistic passion, community spirit, originality and assertiveness". It is not necessarily awarded every year. A jury set up by Katja Eichinger and Nina Eichinger decides on the recipient(s).

Retired awards

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Best Foreign Film (1996–2004)

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In theory this is still a current category, since it appears in the most recent edition of the rules and regulations. In practice though, this cateogire has been retired since 2004, when Lost in Translation was the last recipient.

Audience Award: Film of the Year (1999–2005 and 2013)

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In honor of films with broad appeal and box office success. Replaced by the current Largest Audience Award.

Audience Award: Actor/Actress of the Year

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Selection process

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Borrowing from the American model, the awards have been made by an academy, the Deutsche Filmakademie, since 2005. The academy replaces a much-criticised jury which was constituted according to the principle of political proportionality, and on which politicians and clergymen also sat. Now the jury consists of the members of the German Film Academy, which makes them a well specialised jury.

The selection process has three main steps:

  1. Registration and pre-selection
  2. Nomination
  3. Election of the award winners

Nominations are decided by a pre-determined jury from each branch. Except for the film categories, usually three nominees are announced. More nominees are allowed in case of a tie. The nominations for the film categories are endowed with 100.000 Euro (Documentary), 125.000 Euro (Best Children's Film) and 250.000 Euro (Best Fiction Film). Winners in each individual categories get 10.000 Euro, whereas the main winner in the Film category gets 500.000 Euro (including the nomination reward). The Best Film category features six nominees with the three most voted winning a bronze, silver and gold award respectively.

Ceremonies

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Edition Date Host(s) Venue Best Film
1st 6 June 1951 Alfred Bauer Titania Palast in Berlin Two Times Lotte
2nd 23 April 1952 Bundeshaus in Bonn The Guilt of Doctor Homma
3rd 1953 Ufa Palast Nights on the Road
4th 17 June 1954 No Way Back
5th 24 June 1955 Canaris: Master Spy
6th 22 June 1956 —
7th 23 June 1957 The Captain from Köpenick
8th 29 June 1958 The Devil Strikes at Night
9th 28 June 1959 Arms and the Man
10th 22 June 1960 The Bridge
11th 25 June 1961 Kongresshalle Berlin —
12th 24 June 1962 The Bread of Those Early Years
13th 23 June 1963 Die Endlose Nacht and The Lightship
14th 28 June 1964 The River Line
15th 27 June 1965 The House in Karp Lane
16th 26 June 1966 Young Törless
17th 25 June 1967 Walther Schmieding Yesterday Girl
18th 23 June 1968 Tattoo
19th 29 June 1969 Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
20th 28 June 1970 Hans Christoph Knebusch and Walther Schmieding Katzelmacher and Malatesta
21st 27 June 1971 First Love and Lenz
22nd 24 June 1972 Trotta and Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King
23rd 24 June 1973 The Experts
24th 22 June 1974 The Pedestrian
25th 27 June 1975 Lina Braake
26th 25 June 1976 Calm Prevails Over the Country
27th 24 June 1977 Heinrich
28th 30 June 1978 unknown The Glass Cell
29th 8 June 1979 The Tin Drum
30th 13 June 1980 The Last Years of Childhood
31st 26 June 1981 Jede Menge Kohle
32nd 26 June 1982 Marianne and Juliane
33rd 25 June 1983 The State of Things
34th 23 June 1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
35th 15 June 1985 Colonel Redl
36th 7 June 1986 Theater des Westens Rosa Luxemburg
37th 13 June 1987 —
38th 10 June 1988 Wings of Desire
39th 2 June 1989 Yasemin
40th 7 June 1990 Last Exit to Brooklyn
41st 6 June 1991 Leo Koschnik Malina
42nd 4 June 1992 Schtonk!
43rd 3 June 1993 Ilja Richter —
44th 9 June 1994 Kaspar Hauser
45th 9 June 1995 Iris Berben Friedrichstadt-Palast Maybe... Maybe Not
46th 31 May 1996 Joachim Król and Veronica Ferres Deutsche Oper Berlin Deathmaker
47th 6 June 1997 Sabine Christiansen Berlin Tempelhof Airport Rossini – oder die mörderische Frage,
wer mit wem schlief
48th 6 June 1998 Joachim Fuchsberger Brandenburg Gate The Harmonists
49th 17 June 1999 Piet Klocke and Katarina Witt Deutsche Oper Berlin Run Lola Run
50th 16 June 2000 Götz Alsmann and Susann Atwell No Place to Go
51st 22 June 2001 The State I Am In
52nd 14 June 2002 Caroline Beil and Dirk Bach Tempodrom Nowhere in Africa
53rd 6 June 2003 Jörg Pilawa Good Bye, Lenin!
54th 18 June 2004 Jessica Schwarz and Ulrich Wickert Head-On
55th 5 June 2005 Michael "Bully" Herbig Berliner Philharmonie Go for Zucker!
56th 12 May 2006 Palais am Funkturm The Lives of Others
57th 04 May 2007 Four Minutes
58th 25 April 2008 Barbara Schöneberger The Edge of Heaven
59th 24 April 2009 John Rabe
60th 23 April 2010 Friedrichstadtpalast The White Ribbon
61st 8 April 2011 Vincent Wants to Sea
62nd 27 April 2012 Elyas M'Barek and Jessica Schwarz Stopped on Track
63rd 26 April 2013 Mirjam Weichselbraun Tempodrom A Coffee in Berlin
64th [de] 9 May 2014 Jan Josef Liefers Palais am Funkturm Home from Home
65th 19 June 2015 Victoria
66th [de] 27 May 2016 The People vs. Fritz Bauer
67th [de] 28 April 2017 Jasmin Tabatabai Toni Erdmann
68th [de] 27 April 2018 Edin Hasanović [de] and Iris Berben 3 Days in Quiberon
69th [de] 3 May 2019 Désirée Nosbusch and Tedros Teclebrhan Gundermann
70th [de] 24 April 2020 Edin Hasanović System Crasher

Trivia

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Films that received six or more German Film Awards

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Film Year Noms. Wins
The White Ribbon 2010 13 10
The Devil Strikes at Night 1958 — 10
Good Bye Lenin! 2003[note 2] 10 9[note 3]
System Crasher 2020 10 8
The Dark Valley 2015 9 8
The Lives of Others 2006 11 7
3 Days in Quiberon 2018 10 7
Run Lola Run 1999 6 7[note 4]
Go for Zucker! 2005 10 6
Gundermann 2019 10 6
The People vs. Fritz Bauer 2016 9 6
A Coffee in Berlin 2013 8 6
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer 2007 8 6
Victoria 2015 7 6
Anonymous 2012 7 6
Toni Erdmann 2017 6 6
The Wrong Move 1975 — 6
The Bread of Those Early Years 1962 — 6
The Captain from Köpenick 1957 — 6

"Big Five" winners and nominees

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Winners

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  1. Best Film: Toni Erdmann
  2. Best Director: Maren Ade
  3. Best Actor: Peter Simonischek
  4. Best Actress: Sandra Hüller
  5. Best Writing: Maren Ade
  1. Best Film: System Crasher
  2. Best Director: Nora Fingscheidt
  3. Best Actor: Albrecht Schuch
  4. Best Actress: Helena Zengel
  5. Best Writing: Nora Fingscheidt

Nominees[note 5]

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Four awards won

Three awards won

Actors with two or more competitive awards

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Actor Awards won Leading Supporting Others
Götz George 4 3 0 1[note 7]
Irm Hermann 3 1 1 1 [note 8]
Sandra Hüller 3 2 1
Eva Mattes 3 0 2 1[note 9]
Katja Riemann 3 2 1
Hanna Schygulla 3 2 0 1 [note 10]
Barbara Sukowa 3 3 0
Mario Adorf 2 1 0 1[note 11]
Moritz Bleibtreu 2 1 1
Klaus Maria Brandauer 2 2 0
Daniel Brühl 2 2 0
Edith Clever 2 2 0
Justus von Dohnányi 2 0 2
Hannelore Elsner 2 2 0
O.W. Fischer 2 2 0
Martina Gedeck 2 1 1
Walter Giller 2 1 1
Michael Gwisdek 2 1 1
Fritzi Haberlandt 2 0 2
Sibel Kekilli 2 2 0
Peter Kern 2 1 0 1 [note 12]
Nastassja Kinski 2 1 0 1 [note 13]
Burghart Klaußner 2 1 1
Joachim Król 2 2 0
Frederick Lau 2 1 1
Hanns Lothar 2 0 2
Hannes Messemer 2 1 1
Uwe Ochsenknecht 2 2 0
Gerhard Olschewski 2 2 0
Lena Stolze 2 2 0
Lilli Palmer 2 2 0
Sophie Rois 2 1 1
Heinz Rühmann 2 2 0
Christine Schorn 2 0 2
Maria Schrader 2 2 0
Albrecht Schuch 2 1 1
Sigfrit Steiner 2 1 1
Laura Tonke 2 1 1
Ulrich Tukur 2 1 1

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ The German title Deutscher Filmpreis is always written in singular, even when talking about the award ceremony as a whole. The plural Deutsche Filmpreise, which would equate to "German Film Awards", is never used in official German press releases. The rationale is to prevent a generalized "Film awards in Germany" misinterpretation. There is no standardized English translation though, which has led to English sources like Variety using the plural German Film Awards in their reporting.[1]
  2. ^ the award for best unproduced screenplay was given out in 2002
  3. ^ tincluding one Audience Award and an award for unproduced screenplay
  4. ^ including an audience award
  5. ^ only after the inclusion of nominations in screenplay in 2005 are considered
  6. ^ the screenplay award was won year before
  7. ^ Best Young Actor 1960
  8. ^ Best Ensemble 1970
  9. ^ Best Young Actress 1971
  10. ^ Best Ensemble 1970
  11. ^ Best Young Actor 1958
  12. ^ Best Ensemble 1975
  13. ^ Best Ensemble 1975

References

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  1. ^ Meza, Ed (2020-04-23). "German Film Awards Go Remote in Revamped Kudos Broadcast". Variety. New York City / Los Angeles: Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  2. ^ "Deutscher Filmpreis" (in German). Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  3. ^ a b Dambacher, Eva (1996). Literatur- und Kulturpreise 1859-1949 : eine Dokumentation (in German). Marbach am Neckar: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft. p. 130–132. ISBN 3929146436.
  4. ^ "27.05.1951 – Verleihung des ersten Deutschen Filmpreises". www1.wdr.de. April 13, 2016.
  5. ^ "Shows: Ziegler Film Berlin". www.ziegler-film.com.
  6. ^ "Shows: Ziegler Film Berlin". www.ziegler-film.com.
  7. ^ "Cinema: Ziegler Film Berlin". dev.ziegler-film.com.
  8. ^ "Die Statue • Deutscher Filmpreis". Deutscher Filmpreis.
  9. ^ "▷ 51. Deutscher Filmpreis 2001".
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