International literary film award
The International Literary Film Award is a film award that honors the best international literary film adaptation of the year. It has been awarded annually since 2004 at the Frankfurt Book Fair to illustrate the close connection between the book and film industries.
The prize was originally donated by the Berlin broadcaster XXP , the Spiegel Group and the Frankfurt Book Fair with the aim of honoring films that are "highlights of cinema that are in no way inferior to their written counterparts, sometimes even surpass them". The award was endowed with 10,000 euros until 2014.
Award winners
Awarded in 2004
- Monsieur Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran (Director: François Dupeyron , Script: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt )
Awarded in 2005
- Willenbrock (Director: Andreas Dresen , Screenplay: Laila Stieler )
Further nominations:
- The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Director: Peter Webber , Script: Olivia Hetreed )
- Mathilde - A Great Love (Direction: Jean-Pierre Jeunet , Script: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant )
- Million Dollar Baby (Director: Clint Eastwood , Writer: Paul Haggis )
- Owning Mahowny (Director: Richard Kwietniowski , Script: Maurice Chauvet )
- Sideways (Direction: Alexander Payne , Script: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor )
- The Door in the Floor (directed and written by Tod Williams )
- When dreams learn to fly (Director: Marc Forster , Script: David Magee )
- The Twins (Director: Ben Sombogaart , Script: Marieke van der Pool )
Awarded in 2006
- True Lies - Where The Truth Lies (Directed and written by Atom Egoyan )
Awarded in 2007
- A Courageous Path - A Mighty Heart (Director: Michael Winterbottom , Script: John Orloff )
Awarded in 2008
- Gomorrah - Journey into the Empire of Camorra (Direction: Matteo Garrone , Book: Roberto Saviano )
Awarded in 2009
Awarded in 2010
Awarded in 2011
- David Heyman for the film adaptations of the Harry Potter books
Awarded in 2012
Awarded in 2013
- Ziad Doueiri and his wife Joelle Touma for The Attack
Awarded in 2014
Awarded in 2015
Award ceremony 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Hessian Film and Cinema Prize ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2007 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.
- ↑ Article by SPIEGEL ONLINE on the award
- ↑ Best international literary films 2016 , boersenblatt.net, October 19, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2016
