German Academy Awards 2006
2006 German Film Academy Awards
2006 German Film Academy’s Lola Award nominations: March 23, 2006.
2006 German Film Academy’s Lola Award winners: Palais am Funkturm in Berlin on May 12, 2006.
There’s a Golden Lola for Best Film and a Silver Lola for the runner(s)-up.
† Nominees include films released before Feb. 28, 2006. (There are, however, exceptions to this rule.)
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
German Film Academy’s 2006 Lola Award Winners: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a quite timely political drama about a government eavesdropping on its citizens, won seven Lola Awards at a ceremony held yesterday at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin.
Besides the Golden Award for Best Film (worth €500,000/approx. US$640,000), Das Leben der Anderen won awards for Best Director (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck), Best Actor (Ulrich Mühe), Best Supporting Actor (Ulrich Tukur), Best Screenplay (von Donnersmarck), Best Cinematography (Hagen Bogdanski), and Best Production Design (Silke Buhr). Das Leben der Anderen is set in East Germany, where the feared Stasi and its tens of thousands of informants kept tabs on that country’s citizens. Thus far, the film has been seen by more than 800,000 German filmgoers.
Requiem, the tale of a woman who believes she’s been possessed by the devil, won four Lolas, including those for Best Actress Sandra Hüller (who also won the Best Actress Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival) and Best Supporting Actress Imogen Kogge.
Additionally, as one of the two runners-up in the Best Film category, Requiem shared the Silver Prize for Best Film with Hans-Christian Schmid’s Knallhart / Tough Enough, a box-office disappointment that received mixed reviews from German critics. Set in the economically depressed Berlin suburb of Neukölln, Knallhart revolves around the difficult life of a teenager reaching maturity without either parental or social assistance. The film also won Lolas for Editing (Dirk Grau) and Music (Bert Wrede).
The controversial suicide-bomber film Paradise Now, nominated for two Lolas, and Sommer vorm Balkon / Summer in Berlin, nominated for six, failed to win any awards.
Bester Spielfilm / Best Film (Film Prize in Gold)
KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH Claus Boje (Boje Buck Produktion)
KOMM NÄHER Oliver Simon (K5 Film)
* DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann (Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion)
PARADISE NOW Gerhard Meixner and Roman Paul (Razor Film Produktion)
REQUIEM Hans-Christian Schmid (23I5 Filmproduktion)
SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN Peter Rommel (Rommel Film) and Stefan Arndt (X Filme Creative Pool)
Best Film Runners-Up (tie) (Film Prize in Silver)
* KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH Claus Boje (Boje Buck Produktion)
* REQUIEM Hans-Christian Schmid (23I5 Filmproduktion)
Bester Dokumentarfilm / Best Documentary
DIE GROSSE STILLE / INTO GREAT SILENCE Philip Gröning, Elda Guidinetti, Andres Pfäffli, Michael Weber (Philip Gröning Filmproduktion)
* LOST CHILDREN Oliver Stoltz (Dreamer Joint Venture)
Beste Regie / Best Direction
* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Andreas Dresen SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN
Hans-Christian Schmid REQUIEM
Beste darstellerische Leistung – männliche Hauptrolle / Best Actor
Moritz Bleibtreu ELEMENTARTEILCHEN / THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
* Ulrich Mühe DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Milan Peschel NETTO
Beste darstellerische Leistung – weibliche Hauptrolle / Best Actress
Inka Friedrich SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN
* Sandra Hüller REQUIEM
Jasmin Tabatabai FREMDE HAUT
Nadja Uhl SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN
Beste darstellerische Leistung – männliche Nebenrolle / Best Supporting Actor
Burghart Klaußner REQUIEM
Andreas Schmidt SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN
* Ulrich Tukur DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Beste darstellerische Leistung – weibliche Nebenrolle / Best Supporting Actress
Meret Becker KOMM NÄHER
Martina Gedeck ELEMENTARTEILCHEN / THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
* Imogen Kogge REQUIEM
Bestes Drehbuch / Best Screenplay
Hany Abu Assad, Bero Beyer PARADISE NOW
* Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Wolfgang Kohlhaase SOMMER VORM BALKON / SUMMER IN BERLIN
Bernd Lange REQUIEM
Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung / Best Cinematography
* Hagen Bogdanski DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Michael Hammon WILLENBROCK
Jürgen Jürges SCHATTEN DER ZEIT
Bester Schnitt / Best Editing
* Dirk Grau KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH
Patricia Rommel DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Bernd Schlegel, Hansjörg Weißbrich REQUIEM
Beste Filmmusik / Best Music
T Bone Burnett DON’T COME KNOCKING
* Bert Wrede KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH
Stéphane Moucha, Gabriel Yared DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Bestes Szenenbild / Best Production Design
Nathan Amondson DON’T COME KNOCKING
* Silke Buhr DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Christian M. Goldbeck REQUIEM
Bestes Kostümbild / Best Costume Design
Gabriele Binder DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Lisy Christl SCHATTEN DER ZEIT
* Bettina Marx REQUIEM
Beste Tongestaltung / Best Sound Recording
Christian Bischoff, Jörg Elsner, Marc Parisotto WHOLETRAIN
Stefan Busch, Michael Kranz BARFUSS
* Lars Ginzel, Dirk Jacob, Marc Parisotto, Martin Steyer REQUIEM
Hubertus Rath, Christoph von Schönburg, Arno Wilms DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN / THE LIVES OF OTHERS
Bester Kinder- und Jugendfilm / Best Children’s/Youth Film
* DIE HÖHLE DES GELBEN HUNDES Stephan Schesch (Schesch Film)
DER SCHATZ DER WEIßEN FALKEN Tom Spieß and Sönke Wortmann (Little Shark Entertainment)
Honorary Award: Erna Baumbauer
Lola Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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