German Film Award 2007
The 2007 German Film Prize was awarded on May 4, 2007 . For the first time, not only the award ceremony, but also the announcement of the nominations was broadcast live on television. On March 16, 2007, Senta Berger , President of the German Film Academy and Bernd Neumann , Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media read the names of the candidates in front of an audience in the ZDF morning magazine .
For the third time, the comedian and film director Michael "Bully" Herbig led the gala, which took place in the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin . The favorites were Tom Tykwer's historical thriller Perfume - The Story of a Murderer and Chris Kraus ' drama Four Minutes , each of which had eight nominations. Behind them came Stefan Ruzowitzky's Berlinale contribution Die Fälscher (7 nominations), Marcus H. Rosenmüller's homeland film Who dies earlier is longer dead (5) and Sven Taddicken's romantic comedy Emmas Glück (4).
Award winners and nominees
Most of the lolas | Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (5 Awards) |
Most of the nominations | Perfume - The Story of a Murderer and Four Minutes (8 nominations each) |
Best feature film
Four minutes (film award in gold) - Production: Meike Kordes , Alexandra Kordes
- Who dies earlier is dead longer (film award in silver) - Production: Annie Brunner , Andreas Richter , Ursula Woerner
- Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (Silver Film Award) - Production: Bernd Eichinger
- Also nominated:
- Emmas Glück - Production: Stefan Schubert , Ralph Schwingel , Hejo Emmons
- The counterfeiters - production: Nina Bohlmann , Babette Schröder , Josef Aichholzer
- Winterreise - Production: Uli Aselmann , Robert Marciniak
Best documentary
Workingman's Death - Production: Erich Lackner ( Lotus-Film ), Mirjam Quinte , Pepe Danquart
- The short life of José Antonio Gutierrez - Production: Gerd Haag
Best children's and youth film
Hands Off Mississippi - Production: Claus Buoy
- The cloud - production: Markus Zimmer
Best acting performance - male lead role
Josef Bierbichler - Winter Journey
Best Acting Performance - Leading Female Role
Monica Bleibtreu - Four minutes
Best acting performance - male supporting role
Best acting performance - female supporting role
Hannah Herzsprung - The real life
Best director
Marcus H. Rosenmüller - Those who die earlier are dead longer
Best camera / image creation
Frank Griebe - The Perfume - The Story of a Murderer
Best cut
Alexander Berner - Perfume - The story of a murderer
Best production design
Uli Hanisch - Perfume - The story of a murderer
Best costume design
Pierre-Yves Gayraud - Perfume - The story of a murderer
Best film score
Gerd Baumann - Those who die earlier are dead longer
Best sound design
Stefan Busch , Dirk Jacob , Michael Kranz , Frank Kruse , Matthias Lempert , Hanse Warns , Roland Winke - Perfume - The story of a murderer
- Richard Borowski, Fabian Schmidt , Kai Storck , Andreas Wölki - Emma's luck
- Jörg Höhne , Robin Pohle , Andreas Ruft - four minutes
Best script
Christian Lerch , Marcus H. Rosenmüller - Those who die earlier are dead longer
Honorary award for outstanding services to German film
Web links
- Website of the German Film Academy
- Nomination list 2007 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF ; 210 kB)
- Press review of the German Film Award on film-zeit.de