German Film Award / Best Acting Achievement
Winner of the German Film Award in the Best Acting Achievement category . At the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s, the category replaced the previously awarded prizes for best leading actress , best leading actor , best supporting actress and best supporting actor . The winners were honored with the film ribbon in gold and a prize of 20,000 DM .
The most successful in this category were Irm Hermann and Hanna Schygulla , who each won the award three times, including 1970 and 1975 as part of an ensemble. Ingrid Caven , Edith Clever , Nastassja Kinski , Lena Stolze and Barbara Sukowa received two awards each (single or ensemble performance added together) .
In the late 1980s and early 1990s , foreign actors were also awarded prizes in German co-productions: Ann-Gisel Glass ( Leise Schatten ), Isabelle Huppert ( Malina ), Sean Connery ( Der Name der Rose ) and Michel Piccoli ( Das weite Land ) .
From 1997, the prizes were again awarded separately according to main and supporting roles.
Award winners
Actresses
1995
Maria Schrader - Burning Life , One of my oldest friends and nobody loves me
1996
Katja Riemann - Only about my corpse and talk of the town
actor
1995
Joachim Król - The man in motion
1996
Ensemble performances
| year | Award winners | Movie title |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Ensemble of the antiteater |
Gods of the Plague Katzelmacher Love is colder than death |
| 1975 | Entire ensemble | Wrong move |
| 1991 |
Harald Juhnke Gisela May Ilse Werner |
The Hello Sisters |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Awarding of the German Film Prize . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 1995, p. 11.
- ↑ a b Kirschbaum, Erik: Germany UPS Film Prize . In: Daily Variety , March 28, 1996, p. 33