Christian Berger Articles

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's depiction of rural Germany on the eve of World War I — and how the cute (if dangerous) little children of that era grew into the Nazis and their followers of the 1930s and 1940s — received 13 nominations for the Lolas, the German version of the Academy Awards. In the Lolas' top categories, the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film [...]

A good surprise at the American Society of Cinematographers awards ceremony held Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles: Christian Berger won the ASC Award for Best Cinematography for his work on a "small" black-and-white foreign-language film, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon. Berger's competitors were in the running for movies with a much higher profile: Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker, Mauro [...]

Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia THE HURT LOCKER Tops 2009 New York Film Critics Awards Although there is still quite a bit of room for surprises, the acting categories have four clear favorites following the New York critics' announcements: George Clooney for Up in the Air (the NY critics added Fantastic Mr. Fox — but not The Men Who Stare at Goats — to [...]