German Film Award / Best Feature Film
Winner of the German Film Award in the Best Feature Film category (formerly: Best Full-Program Feature Film ). Since 1999 the winner has been honored with the "Lola" prize statuette. Before that there was the “Goldener Leuchter” challenge award until 1953, then the “golden bowl” challenge award until 1960 (also in 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1979) and from 1961 the gold film tape .
A gold film prize (endowment: 500,000 euros ), a silver film prize (425,000 euros) and a bronze film prize (375,000 euros) are currently being awarded for the three best feature film productions in descending order . The other nominated films will receive prize money of 250,000 euros.
Film productions by Peter Lilienthal received the most awards (three wins), followed by Fatih Akin , Helmut Dietl , Rudolf Jugert , Alexander Kluge , Norbert Kückelmann , Johannes Schaaf , Maximilian Schell , Volker Schlöndorff , Margarethe von Trotta , Wim Wenders and Sönke Wortmann (each two wins).
Prize winners from 1951 to 1985
Award winners and nominees from 1986
1980s
1986
Rosa Luxemburg (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Margarethe von Trotta
- The attack of the present on the rest of the time (film tape in silver) - Director: Alexander Kluge
- Men (film tape in silver) - Director: Doris Dörrie
- Also nominated:
- The people die at home - Director: Klaus Gietinger and Leo Hiemer
- Hidden - Directed by Anthony Page
- Goethe in D. - Director: Manfred Vosz
- Heidenlöcher - Director: Wolfram Paulus
- Sugar Baby - Director: Percy Adlon
1987
- Francesca (film tape in silver) - Director: Verena Rudolph
- The Name of the Rose (tape in silver) - Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
- The Silence of the Poet (film tape in silver) - Director: Peter Lilienthal
- Also nominated:
- 40 square meters Germany - Director: Tevfik Başer
- The old Ladakh - Director: Clemens Kuby
- Caspar David Friedrich - Limits of Time - Director: Peter Schamoni
- Der Flieger - Director: Erwin Keusch
- Bang! You are dead! - Director: Adolf Winkelmann
1988
The sky over Berlin (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Wim Wenders
- The Indian (film tape in silver) - Director: Rolf Schübel
- Out of Rosenheim (film tape in silver) - Director: Percy Adlon
- Also nominated:
- Drachenfutter - Director: Jan Schütte
- The glass sky - Director: Nina Grosse
- The Little Public Prosecutor - Director: Hark Bohm
- You never know - directed by Gerhard Hostermann and Diethard Küster
- Sierra Leone - Director: Uwe Schrader
- Das Treibhaus - Director: Peter Goedel
- The Wide Land - Director: Luc Bondy
1989
Yasemin (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Hark Bohm
- Herbstmilch (film tape in silver) - Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
- Waller's last course (film tape in silver) - Director: Christian Wagner
- Also nominated:
- Farewell to False Paradise - Director: Tevfik Başer
- La Amiga - The Girlfriend - Director: Jeanine Meerapfel
- In the Year of the Tortoise - Director: Ute Wieland
- Land of Fathers, Land of Sons - Director: Nico Hofmann
- Martha Jellneck - Director: Kai Wessel
- Fear and Love ( Paura e amore ) - Director: Margarethe von Trotta
- The summer of the falcon - Director: Arend Agthe
1990s
1990
Last Exit Brooklyn (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Uli Edel
- Georg Elser - One from Germany (film tape in silver) - Director: Klaus Maria Brandauer
- The spider web (film tape in silver) - Director: Bernhard Wicki
- Also nominated:
- American Beauty Ltd. - Director: Dieter Marcello
- Janssen: Ego - Director: Peter Voss-Andreae
- The Rose Garden - Director: Fons Rademakers
- The Terrible Girl - Director: Michael Verhoeven
- Sturzflug - Director: Thorsten Näter
- Traced Paths - Director: Uwe Janson
- Two women - Director: Carl Schenkel
1991
Malina (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Werner Schroeter
- Homo Faber (film tape in silver) - Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- The Tango Player (film tape in silver) - Director: Roland Gräf
- Also nominated:
- Go Trabi Go - Director: Peter Timm
- The homesickness of Walerjan Wrobel - Director: Rolf Schübel
- Never in a lifetime - directed by Helmut Berger and Nina Grosse
- The Serbian Girl - Director: Peter Sehr
- Step Across the Border - Direction: Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
- Winckelmanns Reisen - Director: Jan Schütte
1992
Schtonk! (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Helmut Dietl
- The land behind the rainbow (film tape in silver) - Director: Herwig Kipping
- Leise Schatten (film tape in silver) - Director: Sherry Hormann
- Also nominated:
- Buster's Bedroom - Director: Rebecca Horn
- Celibidache - Director: Jan Schmidt-Garre
- Happy Birthday, Turk! - Director: Doris Dörrie
- Max Ernst: My vagabonding - My restlessness - Director: Peter Schamoni
- Pizza Colonia - Director: Klaus Emmerich
- The black box - directed by Johann Feindt and Tamara Trampe
- Wildfire - Director: Jo Baier
1993
- Kleine Haie (film tape in silver) - Director: Sönke Wortmann
- The Olympic Summer (film tape in silver) - Director: Gordian Maugg
- We can do it differently ... (Film tape in silver) - Director: Detlev Buck
- Also nominated:
- Herzsprung - Director: Helke Misselwitz
- Krücke - Director: Jörg Grünler
- Long corridor - Director: Yılmaz Arslan
- My daughter is mine - Director: Vivian Naefe
- News in Wittstock - Director: Volker Koepp
- Nordkurve - Director: Adolf Winkelmann
- The Troublemaker - Investigations into Oskar Brüsewitz - Director: Thomas Frickel
1994
Kaspar Hauser (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Peter Sehr
- Goodbye America (film tape in silver) - Director: Jan Schütte
- Balagan (film tape in silver) - Director: Andres Veiel
- Also nominated:
- Make up! - Director: Katja von Garnier
- Farewell to Agnes - Director: Michael Gwisdek
- far away, so Close! - Director: Wim Wenders
- Time of Wrath (Il Lungo silenzio) - Director: Margarethe von Trotta
- Above - Below - Directed by Joseph Orr
1995
The Moving Man (film tape in gold) - Director: Sönke Wortmann
- Nobody loves me (film tape in silver) - Director: Doris Dörrie
- Doom (film tape in silver) - Director: Fred Kelemen
- Also nominated:
- Burning Life - Director: Peter Welz
- Hasenjagd - For sheer cowardice there is no mercy - Director: Andreas Gruber
- I am not God, but like God - Director: Claus Strobel
- Marie's song: I was, I don't know where - Director: Niko Brücher
- The winner - Director: Dominik Graf
1996
The Dead Maker (film tape in gold) - Director: Romuald Karmakar
- Mutters Courage (film tape in silver) - Director: Michael Verhoeven
- Schlafes Bruder (film tape in silver) - Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
- Also nominated:
- Lisbon Story - Director: Wim Wenders
- Men's pension - director: Detlev Buck
- Talk of the town - Director: Rainer Kaufmann
- The survivors - Director: Andres Veiel
- Niki de Saint Phalle - Director: Peter Schamoni
1997
Rossini - or the murderous question of who slept with whom (film tape in gold) - Director: Helmut Dietl
- Beyond the Silence (film tape in silver) - Director: Caroline Link
- Life is a construction site (film tape in silver) - Director: Wolfgang Becker
- Also nominated:
- 14 days for life - Director: Roland Suso Richter
- Engelchen - Director: Helke Misselwitz
- Knockin 'on Heaven's Door - Director: Thomas Jahn
- Lea - Director: Ivan Fíla
- Depending on the season - directed by Pepe Danquart and Mirjam Quinte
1998
Comedian Harmonists (Filmband in Gold) - Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
- Winter Sleeper (film tape in silver) - Director: Tom Tykwer
- Migratory birds ... Once to Inari (film tape in silver) - Director: Peter Lichtefeld
- Also nominated:
- The pharmacist - Director: Rainer Kaufmann
- Mrs. Radich, the Czerni and I - Director: Markus Imboden
- Endurance test - Director: Janek Rieke
- Kinderland burned down - directed by Sibylle Tiedemann and Ute Badura
- Obsession - Director: Peter Sehr
1999
Run Lola Run (Gold Film Award) - Director: Tom Tykwer
- 23 - Nothing is as it seems (film award in silver) - Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- Nachtgestalten (Silver Film Award) - Director: Andreas Dresen
- Also nominated:
- Aimée & Jaguar - Director: Max Färberböck
- Mr. Zwilling and Mrs. Zuckermann - Director: Volker Koepp
- Short and painless - Director: Fatih Akin
- We continue ... - Director: Wolfgang Ettlich
- Am i beautiful - Director: Doris Dörrie
2000s
2000
Die Untouchbare (Gold Film Award) - Director: Oskar Roehler
- Absolute Giganten (Silver Film Award) - Director: Sebastian Schipper
- Sonnenallee (Silver Film Award) - Director: Leander Haußmann
- Also nominated:
- A song of love and death - Gloomy Sunday - Director: Rolf Schübel
- The Million Dollar Hotel - Director: Wim Wenders
- Paths into the Night - Director: Andreas Kleinert
- Käpt'n Blaubär - The Film - Director: Hayo Freitag
2001
The Inner Security (Film Prize in Gold) - Director: Christian Petzold
- Crazy (Silver Film Award) - Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- The Warrior and the Empress (Silver Film Award) - Director: Tom Tykwer
- Also nominated:
- alaska.de - Director: Esther Gronenborn
- The experiment - directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Gran Paradiso - Director: Miguel Alexandre
2002
Nowhere in Africa (Gold Film Award) - Director: Caroline Link
- Half Stairs (Silver Film Award) - Director: Andreas Dresen
- Heaven (Silver Film Award) - Director: Tom Tykwer
- Also nominated:
- Bella Martha - Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
- The white noise - director: Hans Weingartner
- Like fire and flames - Director: Connie Walther
2003
Good bye Lenin! (Film Prize in Gold) - Director: Wolfgang Becker
- Lights (Silver Film Award) - Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- Naked (Film Prize in Silver) - Director: Doris Dörrie
- Also nominated:
- Elefantenherz - Director: Züli Aladağ
- Pigs Will Fly - Director: Eoin Moore
- Solino - Director: Fatih Akin
2004
Against the Wall (Gold Film Award) - Director: Fatih Akin
- Kroko (Film Award in Silver) - Director: Sylke Enders
- The Miracle of Bern (Silver Film Award) - Director: Sönke Wortmann
- Also nominated:
- Herr Lehmann - Director: Leander Haußmann
- Muxmäuschenstill - Director: Marcus Mittermeier
- Wolfsburg - Director: Christian Petzold
Everything on sugar! (Film Prize in Gold) - Director: Dani Levy
- The fat years are over (film award in silver) - Director: Hans Weingartner
- Sophie Scholl - The Last Days (Silver Film Award) - Director: Marc Rothemund
- Also nominated:
- Agnes and his brothers - Director: Oskar Roehler
- The ninth day - Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- The forest for the trees - Director: Maren Ade
The Lives of Others (Film Award in Gold) - Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Knallhart (Film Prize in Silver) - Director: Detlev Buck
- Requiem (Silver Film Award) - Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- Also nominated:
- Come closer - Director: Vanessa Jopp
- Paradise Now - Director: Hany Abu-Assad
- Summer in front of the balcony - Director: Andreas Dresen
Four Minutes (Gold Film Award) - Director: Chris Kraus
- Who dies earlier is dead longer (film award in silver) - Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (Silver Film Award) - Director: Tom Tykwer
- Also nominated:
- Emma's Luck - Director: Sven Taddicken
- The Counterfeiters - Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Winterreise - Director: Hans Steinbichler
On the Other Side (Gold Film Award) - Director: Fatih Akin
- Cherry Blossoms - Hanami (Film Prize in Silver) - Director: Doris Dörrie
- Die Welle (Film Prize in Bronze) - Director: Dennis Gansel
- Also nominated:
- At the end there are tourists - Director: Robert Thalheim
- Shopping - Director: Ralf Westhoff
- Yella - Director: Christian Petzold
John Rabe (Gold Film Award) - Production: Mischa Hofmann , Benjamin Herrmann , Jan Mojto , Director: Florian Gallenberger
- One year in winter (film award in silver) - Production: Uschi Reich , Martin Moszkowicz , Director: Caroline Link
- Cloud 9 (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Peter Rommel , Director: Andreas Dresen
- Also nominated:
- The Baader Meinhof complex - production: Bernd Eichinger , director: Uli Edel
- Chiko - Production: Fatih Akin , Klaus Maeck , Direction: Özgür Yıldırım
- Jerichow - Production: Florian Koerner von Gustorf , Michael Weber , Director: Christian Petzold
2010s
The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (Gold Film Award) - Production: Stefan Arndt , Director: Michael Haneke
- Sturm (Film Prize in Silver) - Production: Britta Knöller , Hans-Christian Schmid , Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- Die Fremde (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Feo Aladag , Züli Aladağ , Director: Feo Aladağ
- Also nominated:
- All others - Production: Janine Jackowski , Maren Ade , Dirk Engelhardt , Director: Maren Ade
- Soul Kitchen - Production: Fatih Akin , Klaus Maeck , Director: Fatih Akin
- Desert flower - production: Peter Herrmann , director: Sherry Hormann
Vincent will Meer (Gold Film Award) - Production: Harald Krügler , Viola Jäger , Director: Ralf Huettner
- Almanya - Welcome to Germany (Silver Film Award) - Production: Andreas Richter , Ursula Woerner , Annie Brunner ( Roxy-Film ), Director: Yasemin Şamdereli
- Who if not us (bronze film award) - Production: Thomas Kufus , Director: Andres Veiel
- Also nominated:
- Three - Production: Stefan Arndt , Director: Tom Tykwer
- The really big dream - Production: Anatol Nitschke , Raoul B. Reinert , Director: Sebastian Grobler
- Goethe! - Production: Christoph Müller , Helge Sasse , Director: Philipp Stölzl
Stop on the open road (film award in gold) - Production: Peter Rommel , Director: Andreas Dresen
- Barbara (Silver Film Award) - Production: Florian Koerner von Gustorf and Michael Weber , Director: Christian Petzold
- Kriegerin (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Eva-Marie Martens and René Frotscher , Director: David Wnendt
- Also nominated:
- Anonymous - Production: Roland Emmerich , Larry Franco and Robert Léger , Direction: Roland Emmerich
- Dreiviertelmond - Production: Robert Marciniak and Uli Aselmann , Director: Christian Zübert
- Hell - Production: Thomas Wöbke and Gabriele M. Walther , Direction: Tim Fehlbaum
Oh Boy (Film Prize in Gold) - Production: Marcos Kantis and Alexander Wadouh , Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
- Hannah Arendt (Silver Film Award) - Production: Bettina Brokemper , Director: Margarethe von Trotta
- Lore (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Karsten Stöter , Benny Drechsel , Liz Watts and Paul Welsh , Director: Cate Shortland
- Also nominated:
- Cloud Atlas - Production: Stefan Arndt , Grant Hill , Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer , Direction: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
- Sources of Life - Production: Stefan Arndt , Director: Oskar Roehler
- Die Wand - Production: Rainer Kölmel and Wasiliki Bleser Director: Julian Roman Pölsler
The Other Home - Chronicle of Desire (Gold Film Award) - Production: Christian Reiz , Director: Edgar Reitz
- Das sinstere Tal (Silver Film Prize) - Production: Helmut Grasser and Stefan Arndt , Director: Andreas Prochaska
- Two Lives (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Dieter Zeppenfeld , Rudi Teichmann and Axel Helgeland , Director: Georg Maas
- Also nominated:
- Fack ju Göhte - production: Christian Becker and Lena Schömann , director: Bora Drachtkin
- Finsterworld - Production: Tobias Walker and Philipp Worm , Direction: Frauke Finsterwalder
- Love Steaks - Production: Ines Schiller and Golo Schultz , Direction: Jakob Lass
Victoria (Gold Film Prize) - Production: Sebastian Schipper and Jan Dressler , Director: Sebastian Schipper
- Jack (Silver Film Award) - Production: Jan Krüger and René Römert , Director: Edward Berger
- Time of the cannibals (bronze film award) - Production: Milena Maitz , Director: Johannes Naber
- Also nominated:
- In the labyrinth of silence - production: Uli Putz , Sabine Lamby and Jakob Claussen , director: Giulio Ricciarelli
- Who Am I - No system is safe - Production: Max Wiedemann and Quirin Berg , Director: Baran bo Odar
- We are young. We are strong. - Production: Jochen Laube and Leif Alexis , Director: Burhan Qurbani
Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer (Gold Film Award) - Production: Thomas Kufus , Director: Lars Kraume
- Herbert (Silver Film Award) - Production: Undine Filter , Thomas Král and Anatol Nitschke , Director: Thomas Stuber
- 4 Kings (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Benjamin Seikel and Florian Schmidt-Prange , Director: Theresa von Eltz
- Also nominated:
- He's back - production: Christoph Müller and Lars Dittrich , director: David Wnendt
- Greetings from Fukushima - Production: Harald Kügler and Molly von Fürstenberg , Director: Doris Dörrie
- A hologram for the king - production: Uwe Schott and Stefan Arndt , director: Tom Tykwer
Toni Erdmann (Gold Film Award) - Production: Janine Jackowski , Jonas Dornbach and Maren Ade , Director: Maren Ade
- 24 weeks (silver film award) - Production: Melanie Berke , Tobias Büchner and Thomas Kufus , Director: Anne Zohra Berrached
- Wild (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Bettina Brokemper , Director: Nicolette Krebitz
- Also nominated:
- Yesterday's Flowers - Production: Danny Krausz and Kathrin Lemme , Director: Chris Kraus
- Tschick - Production: Marco Mehlitz , Director: Fatih Akin
- Welcome to the Hartmanns - Production: Quirin Berg , Max Wiedemann , Simon Verhoeven and Michael Verhoeven , Director: Simon Verhoeven
3 Days in Quiberon (Gold Film Award) - Production: Karsten Stöter , Director: Emily Atef
- Out of nowhere (Silver Film Award) - Production: Nurhan Şekerci-Porst , Fatih Akin , Herman Weigel , Director: Fatih Akin
- Western (Bronze Film Award) - Production: Jonas Dornbach , Janine Jackowski , Maren Ade , Valeska Grisebach , Director: Valeska Grisebach
- Also nominated:
- Der Hauptmann - Production: Frieder Schlaich , Irene von Alberti , Director: Robert Schwentke
- In the aisles - production: Jochen Laube , Fabian Maubach , director: Thomas Stuber
- The silent classroom - production: Miriam Düssel , director: Lars Kraume
Gundermann (Gold Film Award) - Production: Claudia Steffen , Christoph Friedel , Director: Andreas Dresen
- Styx (Silver Film Award) - Production: Marcos Kantis , Director: Wolfgang Fischer
- The boy has to get some fresh air (bronze film award) - Production: Sebastian Werninger , Nico Hofmann , Hermann Florin , Director: Caroline Link
- Also nominated:
- 25 km / h - Production: Markus Goller , Oliver Ziegenbalg , Director: Markus Goller
- The most beautiful girl in the world - production: Sebastian Zühr , Timm Oberwelland , Peter Eiff , Theodor Gringel , director: Aron Lehmann
- Transit - Production: Florian Koerner von Gustorf , Michael Weber , Antonin Dedet ; Director: Christian Petzold
2020s
Systemsprenger (Film Prize in Gold) - Production: Peter Hartwig , Jonas Weydemann , Jakob D. Weydemann , Director: Nora Fingscheidt
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (Silver Film Award) - Production: Leif Alexis , Jochen Laube , Fabian Maubach , Director: Burhan Qurbani
- The spoken word counts (bronze film award) - Production: Ingo Fliess , Director: İlker Çatak
- Also nominated:
- Lara - Production: Marcos Kantis , Martin Lehwald , Michal Pokorny , Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
- Lindenberg! Do your thing - Production: Michael Lehmann , Johannes Pollmann , Günther Russ , Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
- Undine - Production: Florian Koerner von Gustorf , Michael Weber , Margaret Ménégoz , Director: Christian Petzold
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bottom line . In: the daily newspaper , March 29, 1996, p. 13.
- ↑ Kinderland burned down | filmportal.de. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 .