German Director Award Metropolis
The German Director's Award Metropolis is a prize awarded by the Federal Association of Director's 2010 to recognize and promote outstanding directing achievements of its members and to strengthen their position towards production companies and broadcasters through nominations and awards. The first award ceremony took place on June 23, 2011 in Munich.
Award winner 2011
Awarded on June 23, 2011 in Munich:
- Best film director: Ralf Huettner for Vincent will Meer
- Best TV film director: Aelrun Goette for No Fear
- Best TV series directing: Dominik Graf for In the face of crime
- Best young talent director: Feo Aladag for Die Fremde
- Best actress: Maria Simon for Kongo (Director: Peter Keglevic ) and It was one of us (Director: Kai Wessel )
- Best actor: Alexander Fehling for Goethe! (Director: Philipp Stölzl ) and Who if not we (Director: Andres Veiel )
- Best editor: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker (WDR) for No Fear (Director: Aelrun Goette), In the face of crime (Director: Dominik Graf) and The lost father (Director: Hermine Huntgeburth )
- Best producer: Thomas Kufus for Who if not we (Director: Andres Veiel)
- Lifetime Achievement Director: Peter Lilienthal (awarded as an honorary prize by the collecting society Bild-Kunst )
Prize winner 2012
Awarded on December 16, 2012 in Munich:
- Best film director: Christian Zübert for Dreiviertelmond
- Best Director for TV Film: Dagmar Hirtz for Die Hebamme - Auf Leben und Tod
- Best TV series director: Arne Feldhusen for The Crime Scene Cleaner , episode Not About My Sofa
- Best documentary director: Maria Speth for 9 lives
- Best young talent director: David Wnendt for Kriegerin
- Best actress: Inka Friedrich
- Best actor: Charly Hübner
- Best editor: Liane Jessen (Hessischer Rundfunk)
- Best producer: Stefan Arndt for Cloud Atlas
- Lifetime Achievement Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Prize winner 2013
Awarded on November 24, 2013 in Munich:
- Best film director: Margarethe von Trotta for Hannah Arendt
- Best TV film director: Nicole Weegmann for Mobbing
- Best director series: Kai Wessel for Zeit der Helden , episode 3
- Best young directors: Jan-Ole Gerster for Oh Boy
- Best director documentary: Inigo Westmeier for Drachenmädchen
- Best director for children and young people: Hermine Huntgeburth for The Adventures of Huck Finn
- Best actress: Katja Riemann for The Weekend
- Best actor: Julius Feldmeier dances for Tore
- Best editorial performance: Katharina Dufner ( ZDF ) dances for Tore
- Best productive achievement: Nina Maag for the weekend
- Lifetime Achievement Director: Rainer Erler
2014 award winners
Awarded on November 9, 2014 in Munich:
- Best Director in Motion Picture: Edward Berger for Jack
- Best TV film director: Hermine Huntgeburth for Männertreu
- Best director series: Arne Feldhusen for Der Tatortreiniger (episode relatives )
- Best young directors: Frauke Finsterwalder for Finsterworld
- Best Documentary Director: Mo Asumang for The Aryans
- Best director for children and young people: Pepe Danquart for Lauf Junge Lauf
- Best actress: Liv Lisa Fries for And I'll be dead tomorrow at noon
- Best actor: Jörg Hartmann for Weissensee
- Best editorial performance: Gudrun Hanke-El Ghomri for eighteen
- Best productive achievement: Jan Krüger for Jack
- Lifetime Achievement Director: István Szabó
Award winner 2015
Awarded on November 8, 2015 in Munich:
- Best film director: Oliver Hirschbiegel for Elser - He would have changed the world
- Best TV film director: Florian Schwarz for Tatort: Born in pain
- Best director series / series episode: Edward Berger for Germany 83
- Best young directors: Giulio Ricciarelli for Im Labyrinth des Schweigens
- Best documentary director: Hubertus Siegert for Beyond Punishment
- Best director children's film: Wolfgang Groos for Rico, Oskar and the heartbreak
- Best creative contribution Camera: Philipp Sichler for Tatort: Born in pain and Mörderhus: The Usedom crime thriller
- Best actress: Martina Gedeck for The End of Patience
- Best actor: Christian Friedel for Elser - He would have changed the world
- Honorable Mention: Emma Bading for the little ones and the bad ones and Das Muli
- Best productive achievement: Til Schweiger for honey in your head
- Best editorial achievement: Ulrike Leibfried for Germany 83
- Lifetime Achievement Director: Michael Haneke
Prize winner 2016
Awarded on November 6, 2016 in Munich:
- Best film director: Hans Steinbichler for The Diary of Anne Frank
- Best TV film director: Kilian Riedhof for Der Fall Barschel
- Best director series / series: Sabine Derflinger for Vorstadtweiber , Season 2 / Episode 6
- Best directors offspring: Viviane Andereggen for Simon says goodbye to his foreskin
- Best documentary director: Stefan Eberlein for Parchim International
- Best director for children / youth films: Stefan Bühling for The White Snake
- Best creative contribution / editing: Jens Müller for Das Programm
- Best actress: Jördis Triebel for Ein Atem and Operation Zucker: Jagdgesellschaft
- Best actor: Friedrich Mücke for Unter der Haut , Mordkommission Berlin 1 and Weinberg
- Best productive achievement: Gabriela Sperl (ARD) for the NSU trilogy in the middle of Germany: NSU
- Best editorial performance: Sascha Schwingel (ARD / Degeto) for Der Fall Barschel
- Lifetime Achievement Director: Edgar Reitz
Award winner 2017
Awarded on November 5, 2017 in Munich:
- Best film director: Kai Wessel for Nebel im August
- Best director child / youth film: Ali Samadi Ahadi for Petterson and Findus - the most beautiful Christmas ever
- Best Documentary Director: Kirsi Marie Liimatainen for Comrade, where are you today?
- Best TV film director: Nicole Weegmann for Part of Us
- Best Director TV Series / Series: Marvin Kren for 4 blocks
- Best young directors: Adrian Goiginger for The Best of All Worlds
- Best production design: Andreas C. Schmid for loneliness and sex and pity
- Best Actor: Tom Schilling for The Same Sky
- Best actress: Verena Altenberger for The Best of All Worlds
- Honorable mention: Ivo Pietzcker for Nebel im August
- Best productive achievement: Nils Dünker for The Best of All Worlds and An Unheard of Woman
- Best editorial performance: Claudia Simionescu for Part of Us
- Jannet Fechner Prize for assistant director for life's work: Helga Asenbaum
- VG Bildkunst prize for life's work: Roland Klick
Prize winners 2018
Award ceremony on November 4, 2018 in Munich:
- Best film director: Wolfgang Fischer for Styx
- Best director child / youth film: Joya Thome for Queen of Niendorf
- Best Documentary Director: Hans Block & Moritz Riesebeck for The Cleaners
- Best TV film director: Umut Dağ for Das deutsche Kind
- Best director TV series / series episode: Christian Schwochow for Bad Banks
- Best offspring directors: Susan Gordanshekan for The Defective Cat
- Best costume design: for Katharina Ost The Little Witch
- Best actress: Susanne Wolff for Styx
- Best actor: Sascha Alexander Geršak for Gladbeck and Somewhere in Tonga
- Best productive achievement: Marcos Kantis for Styx
- Best editorial performance: Claudia Gladziejewski for The Secrets of the Beautiful Leo and Lux - Warriors of Light
- VG Bildkunst prize for life's work: Margarethe von Trotta
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Focus online from November 29, 2012, Film: Honorary Director's Prize for Wolfgang Petersen , accessed on November 30, 2012
- ↑ Metropolis Director Prize awarded. In: Filmportal.de of December 17, 2012
- ↑ German Director Awards Metropolis 2013 on regie.de, accessed on December 5, 2013.
- ↑ Awarding of the Metropolis Director Awards 2014 on professional-production.de, accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Report at deutscher-regiepreis.de, accessed on October 9, 2015.
- ↑ German Director Award METROPOLIS 2017 . Article dated November 6, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017.
- ↑ Nominations for the German Director Award METROPOLIS 2018 . Article dated September 21, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018.