Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award

The Thomas Pluch Script Award has been awarded annually by the Austrian Script Association since 1993 with the aim of honoring scriptwriters and promoting the next generation. The award sponsor is the Austrian Federal Chancellery , Art and Culture Section. The award is named after the screenwriter and co-founder of the Screenwriting Association Thomas Pluch (1934–1992).

The price

The prize has been awarded in three categories since 2014:

Thomas Pluch main prize for the best script for a full-length feature film or a full-length television film of 70 minutes or more
Thomas Pluch Special prize of the jury for a script with particularly outstanding aspects, for full-length feature films or full-length television films, whereby the jury is free to determine the category.
Thomas Pluch Prize for short or medium-length feature films

In 2017, the main prize is endowed with 12,000 euros, the special prize with 7,000 euros and the prize for short or medium-length feature films with 3000 euros. A national jury awards the prize for short or medium-length feature films and nominates the books for the main and special prizes. The main and special prizes will then be awarded from the nominated books by an international jury. The award ceremony takes place together with the Carl Mayer Script Award as part of the Diagonale .

From 2011 to 2013, in addition to the main prize, appreciation prizes were awarded, up to 2010 the main prize was promoted, and since 2014 there has been a special jury prize and the prize for short or medium-length feature films in addition to the main prize .

Award winners and nominees (selection)

Thomas Pluch main prize

Note: All nominees for the year are listed, with the winner (s) always on top.

1993: Paul Harather and Alfred Dorfer for India
1995: Reinhard Jud , Tom-Dariusch Allahyari and Houchang Allahyari for fear of heights
1998: Stefan Ruzowitzky for Die Siebtelbauern
2001: Barbara Albert for Northern Edge
2004: Barbara Albert for Bad Cells
2005: Jessica Hausner for Hotel
2006: Michael Glawogger for slumming
2007: Stefan Ruzowitzky for Die Fälscher

2008: Ernst Gossner for South Of Pico
- Ulrich Seidl and Veronika Franz for Import Export
- Götz Spielmann for revenge

2009: Arash T. Riahi for A Moment of Freedom
- Libertad Hackl for Rimini
- Klaus Händl for March

2010: Jessica Hausner for Lourdes
- Uli Brée and Zoltan Paul for Unter Strom
- Agnes Pluch , Robert Adrian Pejo and Günter Pscheider for Der Kameramörder

2011: Martin Ambrosch for Traces of Evil
- Uwe Lubrich, Alfred Schwarzenberger, Michael Ostrowski , Andreas Prochaska for the unintentional kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott
- Marie Kreutzer for The Fatherless
- Silke Hassler , Peter Turrini , Elisabeth Scharang for Maybe in Another Life

2012: Markus Schleinzer for Michael
- Barbara Eder for Inside America
- Karl Markovics for breathing

2013: Petra Ladinigg and Umut Dağ for Kuma
- Rebecca Blasband and Antonin Svoboda for The Wilhelm Reich Case
- Barbara Albert for the living
- Katharina Mückstein and Selina Gnos for Talea

2014: Götz Spielmann for October November ; Agnes Pluch and Nikolaus Leytner for The Extinction
- Elfi Mikesch for a fever
- Sudabeh Mortezai for Macondo
- Andreas Schmied for Die Werkstürmer

2015: Karl Markovics for Superwelt
- Jessica Hausner for Amour Fou
- Marie Kreutzer leaves for Gruber

2016: Elisabeth Scharang for Jack
- Josef Hader , Wolfgang Murnberger , Wolf Haas for Eternal Life
- Stephan Richter for one of us
- Sandra Bohle and Mirjam Unger for Maikäfer flieg
- Stefan Hafner and Thomas Weingartner for If you only knew how beautiful it is here

2017: Händl Klaus for Kater
- Michael Kreihsl for love maybe
- Tizza Covi for Mister Universo
- Pia Hierzegger for The White Lie
- Monja Art for seventeen

2018: Kathrin Resetarits for light
- Stefan A. Lukacs for cops
- Adrian Goiginger for The Best of All Worlds
- Ruth Mader and Martin Leidenfrost for Life Guidance
- Clemens Setz , Sebastian Brauneis and Nicholas Ofczarek for magicians

2019: Christian Frosch for Murer - Anatomy of a Process
- Markus Schleinzer and Alexander Brom for Angelo
- Marie Kreutzer for The Ground Under Your Feet
- Sudabeh Mortezai for Joy
- Gregor Schmidinger for Nevrland

2020: Johanna Moder for Waren once revolutionary
- Elisabeth Scharang for chasing the heart
- Jessica Hausner and Geraldine Bajard for Little Joe
- Karl Markovics for Nobadi
- Sandra Wollner and Roderick Warich for The Trouble with Being Born

Thomas Pluch Special Jury Prize (since 2014)

2014: Sudabeh Mortezai for Macondo
2015: Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala for Ich seh Ich seh
2016: Stefan Hafner and Thomas Weingartner for If you knew how beautiful it is here
2017: Monja Art for Seventeen and Tizza Covi for Mister Universo
2018: Clemens Setz , Sebastian Brauneis and Nicholas Ofczarek for magicians
2019: Gregor Schmidinger for Nevrland
2020: Sandra Wollner and Roderick Warich for The Trouble with Being Born

Thomas Pluch sponsorship awards (until 2010)

1993
- Michael Cencig for Giulia Super
- David Rühm for Escape

1995
- Regine Aster for Ticket to Ride
- Christiane Madsen-Julen and Walter Bretscher for Tschäss

1998
- Goran Rebić for Jugofilm
- Philipp Mosser and Bernhard Schmid for Elu Sonntag Sonderbar
- Barbara Albert for Slidin '- Everything colorful and wonderful

2001
- Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl for Nogo
- Jessica Hausner for Lovely Rita

2004
- Andrea Maria Dusl for Blue Moon
- Ulrike Schweiger for Twinni

2005
- Michael Ramsauer for echoes
- Jörg Kalt for Crash Test Dummies

2006
- Johanna Moder and Pia Hierzegger for Bring on the beautiful life
- David Schalko for Heaven

2007
- Marie Kreutzer for White Box
- Christoph Grissemann , Dirk Stermann , Heinz Strunk , Antonin Svoboda and Jörg Kalt for Immer nie am Meer

2008
- Lukas Miko for The Frozen Sea
- Libertad Hackl and Lena Kammermeier for I want to stay where I've never been

2009
- Alexander Stecher for Das great Glück, so to speak
- Katharina Mückstein for The Association
- Severin Fiala and Ulrike Putzer for elephant skin