German Film Award 2020

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The 70th presentation of the German Film Prize (Lola) took place on April 24, 2020. The award is 2,955,000 euros , the most lucrative cultural award in Germany and is after the election by the members of the German Film Academy of Culture Minister Monika Grütters in up to 18 categories awarded. Originally planned as a prize gala with a large audience, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the event was conceived as a live TV show with guests.

Director Nora Fingscheidt with her two main actors Helena Zengel and Albrecht Schuch at the presentation of Systemsprenger at the Berlinale 2019

The drama Systemsprenger by Nora Fingscheidt received the most awards, converting eight of its ten nominations into victories, including in the categories of feature film, direction and screenplay as well as for the two main actors Helena Zengel and Albrecht Schuch .

Award

The most successful films
(at least two nominations, excluding jury or audience awards ; highlighted = most awards
N = nomination; A = award)
Movie N A.
Berlin Alexanderplatz 11 5
System sprinkler 10 8th
The spoken word is valid 5 1
I have never been to New York 5 0
Lindenberg! Do your thing 4th 2
German lesson 2 0
Free country 2 0
Narcissus and Goldmund 2 0
Schlingensief - Shouting into the silence 2 0
Undine 2 0

Preselection and introduction of a new category

The preselection for the documentary section with 15 films was announced on December 16, 2019. The announcement of the pre-selections for the areas of feature film with 27 films and children's film with 8 films took place on January 7, 2020. This concluded the first stage of the three-stage election process. The 2000 members of the German Film Academy viewed the pre-selected films and voted on the nominations by mid-March 2020. The nominations were announced on March 11, 2020.

For the first time in 2020, a Lola was also awarded in the Best Visual Effects and Animation category. Like most of the individual performance categories, this prize is endowed with 10,000 euros.

Change of the event concept

As in previous years, the award ceremony was also planned as a gala event with an audience and was originally intended to be broadcast on television by ARD with a delay. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a ban on contact in Germany, a change in the concept was announced just under three weeks before the event. The award ceremony was now broadcast live while filmmakers, musicians and laudators were connected from their living rooms. According to its own statements, the German Film Academy had previously consulted intensively with Minister of State for Culture Grütters and ARD.

Actor Edin Hasanović hosted the evening . He had already moderated the German Film Prize 2018 together with the then President of the German Film Academy Iris Berben . The originally selected director Sherry Hormann continued to be the artistic director . In order not to endanger the production employees, the preparations for the 70th award should take place entirely in the home office . The ARD co-production came about under the leadership of Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb).

Announcement of the honorary award winner

The first award winner was announced on March 5, 2020: the director, author and producer Edgar Reitz will receive the honorary award for outstanding services to German film. Ulrich Matthes , President of the German Film Academy, commented on the selection committee's decision: “Edgar Reitz invented unforgettable poetic people and images , especially with his " Heimat " films. They shine far beyond themselves and their microcosm. And he has shown that the charged word “home” is too complex to be left to right-wing nationalists “.

Award winners and nominations

Best feature film

also nominated:

Best documentary

Born in Evin - Production: Alex Tondowski , Ira Tondowski

Best children's film

When Hitler stole the pink rabbit - Production: Jochen Laube , Fabian Maubach Clementina Hegewisch

Best script

Nora Fingscheidt - system sprinkler

Best director

Nora Fingscheidt - system sprinkler

Best female lead

Helena Zengel - system sprinkler

Best male lead

Albrecht Schuch - system sprinkler

Best Supporting Role

Gabriela Maria Schmeide - system sprinkler

Best supporting role

Albrecht Schuch - Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best camera / image creation

Yoshi Heimrath - Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best cut

Stephan Bechinger , Julia Kovalenko - system sprinkler

Best production design

Silke Buhr - Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best costume design

Sabine Böbbis - Lindenberg! Do your thing

Best makeup image

Astrid Weber , Hannah Fischleder - Lindenberg! Do your thing

Best film score

Dascha Dauenhauer - Berlin Alexanderplatz

Best sound design

Corinna Zink , Jonathan Schorr , Dominik Leube , Oscar Stiebitz , Gregor Bonse - Systemsprenger

Best visual effects and animation

Jan Stoltz , Claudius Urban - The Kangaroo Chronicles

Most popular film

The perfect secret - Lena Schömann , Bora Drachtkin

Honorary award

Edgar Reitz

Films submitted

The 27 fiction, 15 documentary and 8 children's films were submitted in October 2019 and assessed by three different pre-selection committees (feature film: 18 members, documentary film: 11, children's film: 10). The aim was to include films in the preselection which, as a complete work or based on outstanding individual achievements, have a chance of receiving nominations and prizes. The pre-selected fiction and children's films were announced on January 7, 2020, the documentaries had already been released on December 16, 2019. Schoolchildren of various ages who were enthusiastic about films were again invited to the screenings of the children's films, and their judgments were included in the later decision-making process.

The 2,000 members of the German Film Academy voted on the regular nominations in 17 categories by online viewing until March 2020 or were able to watch the films in the cinema at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in the LOLA at Berlinale series (February 22-29, 2020) .

Below is an overview of all films submitted for the German Film Prize 2020 (productions marked with asterisk received regular nominations in one of the 17 award categories, with the exception of honorary and special prizes).

Feature films

full list
  1. 7500 - Director: Patrick Vollrath
  2. Auerhaus - Director: Neele Leana Vollmar
  3. Berlin Alexanderplatz * - Director: Burhan Qurbani
  4. German Lesson * - Director: Christian Schwochow
  5. The spoken word counts * - Director: İlker Çatak
  6. The Collini case - Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
  7. Free Land * - Director: Christian Alvart
  8. Future Three - Director: Faraz Shariat
  9. Gipsy Queen * - Director: Hüseyin Tabak
  10. Gut gegen Nordwind - Director: Vanessa Jopp
  11. I've never been to New York * - Director: Philipp Stölzl
  12. I was at home, but ... - Director: Angela Schanelec
  13. The Kangaroo Chronicles * - Director: Dani Levy
  14. Cocoon - Director: Leonie Krippendorff
  15. Lara * - Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
  16. Lindenberg! Do your thing * - Director: Hermine Huntgeburth
  17. My end. Your beginning. * - Director: Mariko Minoguchi
  18. The melancholy girl - Director: Susanne Heinrich
  19. Narcissus and Goldmund * - Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
  20. O Beautiful Night * - Director: Xaver Böhm
  21. Pelikanblut * - Director: Katrin Gebbe
  22. The Perfect Secret - Directed by Bora Drachtkin
  23. Systemsprenger * - Director: Nora Fingscheidt
  24. Traumfabrik - Director: Martin Schreier
  25. And facing the future - Director: Bernd Böhlich
  26. Undine * - Director: Christian Petzold
  27. The prelude - directed by Ina Weisse

Documentaries

full list
  1. Aquarela - directed by Victor Kossakovsky
  2. Born in Evin * - directed by Maryam Zaree
  3. Brotherly love - directed by Julia Horn
  4. Cunningham - directed by Alla Kovgan
  5. Dark Eden - Directed by Jasmin Herold , Michael Beamish
  6. The forum - directed by Marcus Vetter
  7. The Secret Life of Trees - Directed by Jörg Adolph
  8. Home is a space from time * - directed by Thomas Heise
  9. Helmut Newton - The Bad and the Beautiful - Directed by Gero von Boehm
  10. The Isle of Hungry Ghosts - Directed by Gabrielle Brady
  11. Class German - directed by Florian Heinzen-Ziob
  12. Lovemobil - directed by Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss
  13. Schlingensief - Screaming Into the Silence * - Directed by Bettina Böhler
  14. The Whale and the Raven - Directed by Mirjam Leuze
  15. Because you only live once - Die Toten Hosen on tour - directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post

Children's films

full list
  1. When Hitler stole the pink rabbit * - Director: Caroline Link
  2. Fritzi - Eine Wendewundergeschichte * - Director: Ralf Kukula , Matthias Bruhn
  3. The Heinzels - Return of the Heinzelmännchen - Director: Ute von Münchow-Pohl
  4. Invisible Sue - Director: Markus Dietrich
  5. My Lotta life - all bingo with a flamingo! - Director: Neele Leana Vollmar
  6. Ostwind - Ari's arrival - Director: Theresa von Eltz
  7. TKKG - Director: Robert Thalheim
  8. Too Far Away - Director: Sarah Winkenstette

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
  2. ↑ The preselection for the German Film Award 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed on December 16, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b The preselection 2020 is complete . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed on January 7, 2020).
  4. ↑ New Lola for visual effects and animation. German Film Academy , August 22, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b The presentation of the German Film Prize takes place with a new concept! German Film Academy , April 8, 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Actor Edin Hasanovic moderates the 70th presentation of the German Film Prize. German Film Academy , February 11, 2020, accessed on February 15, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Edgar Reitz receives the honorary award 2020. German Film Academy , March 5, 2020, accessed on March 5, 2020 .