Swiss film award
The Swiss Film Prize ( Prix du cinéma suisse in French , Premio del cinema svizzero in Italian , Premi dal film svizzer in Rhaeto-Romanic ) was first awarded in 1998 on the occasion of the Solothurn Film Festival. Since then, it has been awarded every January during the Solothurn Film Festival. In the past, a total of 600,000 Swiss francs were available in six categories in prize money. At the beginning of March 2009, a television gala took place on Swiss television for the first time , hosted by the Federal Office of Culture (BAK) and the newly founded Swiss Film Academy . The “Quartz”, a sculpture made of the same- sounding mineral , which in 2008 replaced the previously presented “Viewfinder”, functions as the prize trophy . Since then, the award has been redesigned by designers for each edition. Most recently in 2009 by Alfredo Häberli .
The Swiss Film Prize is intended to honor filmmakers from Switzerland for their outstanding films. The jury consists of various people from the fields of culture, film and media. The jury is reassigned every year. The nominations are made by a nine-person commission elected by the Federal Department of Home Affairs. Swiss films that have been shown at various important film festivals (in Germany and abroad) in the current year are permitted.
Until 2008, the award of the film prize was organized by the Federal Office of Culture, together with its partners Swiss Films , SRG SSR idée suisse and the three Swiss film festivals in Solothurn , Locarno and Nyon . In March 2009, the Swiss Film Prize was awarded in ten categories for the first time during a television gala in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center . For this purpose, the Swiss Film Academy was founded at the end of July 2008 under the direction of the filmmaker Fredi M. Murer , which was supposed to take care of the organization of the nomination process. After differences in legal and financial questions with the Federal Office of Culture, the nominations will be made by the Swiss Film Academy in 2009 and, as in previous years, will be made by a committee of nine. For 2010, the BAK announced that it would hand over the film prize entirely to the Swiss Film Academy. The academy refused, however, as it would then be responsible for generating the necessary resources. For 2009, the academy was prepared to raise only 30 percent of its own funds for hosting the Swiss Film Prize.
As of 2013, the Federal Office of Culture took full responsibility for organizing the Swiss Film Prize, in collaboration with SRG SSR. Bern and the cities of Geneva and Zurich as well as Lausanne and Lucerne applied for the future direction . On March 30, 2012, the federal authorities of the Swiss Confederation announced on admin.ch that the film prize would be awarded in Geneva and Zurich.
The 2019 Swiss Film Awards ceremony took place in Geneva on March 22nd. The 2020 award ceremony was originally scheduled to take place on March 27 in Zurich . Due to the coronavirus epidemic , the award ceremony was canceled. The winners were announced in a press release on March 23, 2020.
Categories
The film prize is awarded in the following categories:
| category | awarded since |
|---|---|
| Best feature film | 1998 |
| Best documentary | 1998 |
| Best short film | 1998 |
| Best Actress | 2000-2003; 2008 |
| Best Actor | 2000-2003; 2008 |
| Best supporting role | 2004-2007; 2011 |
| Best animated film | 2005 |
| Special award from the academy | 2005-2013; 2016 |
| Best script | 2007 |
| Best film score | 2009 |
| Best camera | 2012 |
| Best assembly | 2014 |
| Best graduation film | 2016 |
| Honorary award | 2011 |
- Former categories of the film award
- Best Leading Role (2004-2007)
- Best Young Acting Talent (2008-2010)
Web links
- Official website of the Swiss Film Prize
- Swiss film award goes to the KKL stage - reporting on the award ceremony 2009 on nzz.ch, March 7, 2009
- Swiss Film Award at Swiss Films
Individual evidence
- ↑ SDA : Swiss Film Prize 2009 Compromise between BAK and Film Academy at nzz.ch, July 30, 2008 (accessed on July 31, 2008)
- ^ Dispute over the film award . In: Der Bund , June 12, 2008, p. 31
- ^ "Giochi d'estate" best Swiss film 2012 at nzz.ch, March 17, 2012 (accessed on March 18, 2012).
- ↑ The Swiss Film Prize “Quartz” will take place in Geneva and Zurich from 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation ( admin.ch ), dated March 30, 2012, accessed on March 31, 2012
- ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2020: Announcement of the nominees in Solothurn. In: bak.admin.ch. December 23, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Georges Wyrsch: Swiss Film Award 2020: “Le milieu de l'horizon” is the best Swiss film of the year. In: Srf.ch . March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 .
- ^ Next rejection due to coronavirus: Swiss Film Prize 2020. In: outnow.ch. March 11, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 .
