German Film Awards 2015: Nominations Victoria, Dresen – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The Thriller “Victoria” and the drama “Elser – He could have changed the world”, the favorites for the German Film Prize 2015. Both films are received on Thursday in Berlin seven nominations. The film prize will be awarded on 19 June in Berlin of the German Film Academy.

best actresses have “Victoria” actress Laia Costa, Nina Hoss (“Phoenix”) and Catherine Marie Schubert ( “A gift from the gods”) opportunities in the Golden Lola. As best actor have been nominated “Elser” actor Christian Friedel, Frederick Lau (“Victoria”) and Hanno Koffler (“hardening”).

Both “Victoria” and “Elser” celebrated its premiere at this year’s Berlinale. For his artistic achievements – the film is shot in a single take – was awarded the Silver Bear “Victoria” cameraman Sturla Brandth Grøvlen. The film directed by Sebastian Schipper is on June 11 in the German cinemas. Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film portrait of the failed Hitler assassin Georg Elser runs since April 9. Apart from “Victoria” and “Elser” are among the nominees as best feature film : “In the labyrinth of silence”, “We are young, we are strong.”, “Jack”, “Who am I” and “Time of the cannibals”.

For the Best Director have been except Sebastian Schipper still Edward Berger (“Jack”), Dominik Graf (“Beloved Sisters”) and Johannes Naber ( “Time of Cannibals”) awarded to candidates. For the Best Screenplay three author duo were nominated: Elisabeth Bartel and Giulio Ricciarelli for “In the labyrinth of silence”, Edward Berger and Nele Mueller-Stöfen for “Jack” and Baran bo Odar and Jantje friezes for “Who I am “. Stefan Weigl’s book “Time of Cannibals” and Ralf Westhoff’s “We are the new” round out the category.

The documentary enter “Beyond Punishment” by Hubertus Siegert and “Nowitzki , the perfect union “of Leopold Hoesch against the Oscar-winning” Citizen Four “by Laura Poitras on.

A big disappointment may have been the nominations for Andreas Dresen. His latest film “As we dreamed” based on the bestseller by Clemens Meyer was nominated for Best Editing. For Christian Petzold’s melodrama “Phoenix” there were only two nominations for drama performances, Fatih Akin’s “The Cut” was honored for the best costume and makeup.

The consultants satire “Time of Cannibals”, the social drama “Jack” and “The Labyrinth of silence” are likely to appreciate the extensive attention from the German Film Academy itself, however: They were honored with three nominations.