Swiss Film Award 2020

The 23rd Swiss Film Awards were originally due to take place on March 27, 2020 in Zurich . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the award ceremony was canceled. The winners were announced in a press release on March 23, 2020. The prizes should be presented later during the Locarno Film Festival in August 2020, but this cannot be carried out in its usual form on site either.

Films of the year 2019 were honored in a total of eleven categories; the nominations were announced on January 23, 2020 as part of the Solothurn Film Festival. No Swiss film prize was awarded in the short film category this year. In addition, a special and an honorary award are to be awarded.

The most successful films
(at least two nominations)
highlighted = most awards
(N = nomination; A = award)

Movie	N	A.
Le milieu de l'horizon	4th	2
Baghdad in my shadow	3	1
The Büezer	3	1
Bruno Manser - The Voice of the Rainforest	3	1
Forever and ever	3	2
Moscow Simply!	3	1
Where We Belong	3	0
Al-Shafaq - When the heavens split	2	0

Award winners and nominees

Best feature film

• Delphine Lehericey for Le milieu de l'horizon
  • Samir for Baghdad in my Shadow
  • Niklaus Hilber for Bruno Manser - The Voice of the Rainforest
  • Blaise Harrison for Les particules
  • Micha Lewinsky for Moscow Easy!

Best documentary

• Fanny Bräuning for forever and always
  • Mischa Hedinger for African Mirror
  • Maya Kosa and Sergio da Costa for L'île aux oiseux
  • Stéphane Riethauser for Madame
  • Jacqueline Zünd for Where We Belong

Best short film

• not forgiven

Best animated film

• Maja Gehrig for Average Happiness
  • Michael Frei for kids
  • Samuel Guillaume and Frédéric Guillaume for Le renard et l'oisille

Best script

• Joanne Giger for Le milieu de l'horizon
  • Samir for Baghdad in my Shadow
  • Plinio Bachmann , Barbara Sommer and Micha Lewinsky for Moscow Easy!

Best Actress

• Miriam Stein in Moscow Easy!
  • Sabine Timoteo in tambour battant
  • Beren Tuna in Al-Shafaq - When the heavens split

Best Actor

• Sven Schelker in Bruno Manser - The Voice of the Rainforest
  • Joel Basman in Der Büezer
  • Luc Bruchez in Le milieu de l'horizon

Best supporting role

• Cecilia Steiner in Der Büezer
  • Antonio Buil in Insoumis
  • Andrea Zogg in Der Büezer

Best film score

• Olivia Pedroli for forever and always
  • Nicolas Rabaeus for Le milieu de l'horizon
  • Thomas Kuratli for Where We Belong

Best camera

• Basil Da Cunha for O fim do mundo
  • Gabriel Sandru for Al-Shafaq - When the heavens split
  • Pierre Mennel for Always and forever

Best assembly

• Jann Anderegg for Baghdad in my Shadow
  • Claudio Cea for Bruno Manser - The Voice of the Rainforest
  • Gion-Reto Killias for Where We Belong

Best graduation film

• Aurelio Buchwalder for Isola
  • Lasse Linder for Night All cats are gray
  • Julietta Korbel for Still Working

Special award from the academy

• Chief lighting technician Ernst Brunner for the lighting design in the films Tambour battant and Sekuritas

Honorary award

• Markus Imhoof

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Swiss Film Prize 2020: two prizes each for “Le milieu de l'horizon” and “Always and forever”. In: Federal Office of Culture . March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Georges Wyrsch: Swiss Film Award 2020: “Le milieu de l'horizon” is the best Swiss film of the year. In: Srf.ch . March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ The Swiss Film Prize 2020 will be presented in summer. In: bak.admin.ch. March 11, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 . 
4. ^ Next rejection due to coronavirus: Swiss Film Prize 2020. In: outnow.ch. March 11, 2020, accessed March 12, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2020: Announcement of the nominees in Solothurn. In: bak.admin.ch. December 23, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020 . 
6. ^ Locarno Film Festival: Funding instead of online premieres. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. April 29, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Lory Roebuck: The Swiss Film Prize has a worm. In: NZZ.ch . January 24, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Georges Wyrsch: Swiss Film Award 2020: The nominees are known - but the favorite is missing. In: srf.ch . January 24, 2020, accessed January 25, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2020: Honorary Prize for Markus Imhoof. In: admin.ch. June 29, 2020, accessed June 30, 2020 .