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First German woman to be nominated for a writing award. Shared with the American-born Allen Vincent. 1951: Max Ophüls: La Ronde: Nominated: Shared with the French-born Jacques Natanson. 1958 Don Mankiewicz: I Want to Live! Nominated Mankiewicz is a German-born American screenwriter. Shared with the American-born Nelson Gidding. 1982: Wolfgang ...
A committee composed of representatives of nine different German film institutions and film industry trade groups selects a film for submission to the Academy. German Films is not represented in the committee and concentrates solely on the organizational aspects. [10] Although East Germany used to submit films sparingly, West Germany and later ...
Besides being the most important film award in Germany, it is also the most highly endowed German cultural award, with cash prizes in its current 20 categories totalling nearly three million euros. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission , but since 2005 the award has been organized by the German Film Academy ( Deutsche Filmakademie ).
The French comedy À Nous la Liberté (1931) was the first foreign language film to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Art Direction); the German-language Swiss drama Marie-Louise (1944) was the first to actually win one (Best Original Screenplay).
Hans Zimmer is a German film score composer, he has received several awards and nominations throughout his career including two Academy Awards out of twelve nominations, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Golden Globe Awards, four Grammy Awards and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, among others.
The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) (by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta) and The Tin Drum (1979) (by Schlöndorff alone) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for ...
First person of Indigenous descent nominated for an Academy Award in any category. She is of partial Sri Lankan (Ceylon/Burgher) and Māori (Polynesian) descent. 1936: Luise Rainer: Anna Held: The Great Ziegfeld: Won First German & first Austrian (by homeland) to win an Academy Award. 1937: O-Lan: The Good Earth: Won First person to ever win ...
These awards, however, were not handed out on a regular basis (no award was given in 1953), and were not competitive since there were no nominees but simply one winning film per year. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and ...