Lola Awards Articles

Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag's When We Leave (top); Anamaria Marinca, Kerry Fox in Hans-Christian Schmid's Storm (upper middle); Lars Eidinger, Birgit Minichmayr in Maren Ade's Everyone Else (lower middle); Moritz Bleibtreu (right) in Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen (bottom) THE WHITE RIBBON Leads the 2010 Lola Race Other Best Picture Lola nominees are Feo Aladag's When We Leave, which earned a total of six Lola [...]

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 [...]

The 2010 German Academy Award winners will be announced on April 23 in Berlin. Best film Everyone Else, dir. Maren Ade When We Leave, dir. Feo Aladag Soul Kitchen dir. Fatih Akin Storm dir. Hans-Christian Schmid The White Ribbon dir. Michael Haneke Desert Flower dir. Sherry Hormann Best documentary The Woman with the 5 Elephants dir. Vadim Jendreyko The Heart of Jenin dir. Marcus Vetter, [...]

Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 countries. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners "for a week of industry-related activities and social [...]