German Film Critics Awards Articles
THE WHITE RIBBON, STORM: German Film Critics' 2010 Nominations

The White Ribbon (Films du Losange / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca in Storm (Zentropa) (bottom) Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon is one of the nominees for the German Film Critics Association's best picture award. Set in a small German town prior to the outbreak of World War I, Haneke's stark drama received four nominations: best picture, actor (Burghardt Klaussner), screenplay, and [...]
German Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 German Film Critics Association Awards 2009 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlin on Feb. 10, 2009 Nina Hoss, Benno Fürmann in Jerichow. Photo: Christian Schulz Best Film: Jerichow by Christian Petzold Best First Film: Nacht vor Augen by Brigitte Bertele Best Documentary: Holunderblüte by Volker Koepp Best Actor: Elmar Wepper Kirschblüten – Hanami / Cherry Blossoms (Direction: Doris Dörrie) Best Actress: [...]
German Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 German Film Critics Association Awards 2008 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlin on Feb. 11, 2008 Nina Hoss in Yella Best Film: Yella by Christian Petzold Best First Film: Die Unerzogenen by Pia Marais Best Documentary: Prater by Ulrike Ottinger Best Actor: Ulrich Noethen Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler (Direction: Dani Levy) Best Actress: Maren Kroymann [...]
German Film Critics Awards 2007 Winners

Sandra Hüller in Requiem (top); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom) Surprisingly, the Association of German Film Critics did not pick Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's internationally acclaimed Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others as the best German film of 2006. Instead, their choice was Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem, based on the real-life story of a woman who believed herself possessed by [...]