Awards News: 2010 German Film Award (Lola) nominees

On Friday March 19, German Film Academy president Iris Berben, chairman Bruno Ganz and Culture Minister Bernd Neumann announced the nominations for the 60th Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards). The award is also known as the Lola in honour of Marlene Dietrich's character in Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel). Leading the pack with 13 nominations was Michael Haneke’s Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), a stark tale of a German town’s moral disintegration at the outset of World War I. The 13 nominations is a new record, surpassing the 11 nominations of Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others).

Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon) won the Palme d'Or, top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, in 2009. It went on to win the Best Foreign Film Award at the Golden Globes, but lost at the Academy Awards to the little known Argentinian film El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes).

Die Fremde (When We Leave), a debut feature from actress/director Feo Aladag, received six Lola nominations, while Hans-Christian Schmid’s Yugoslav war drama Storm (Sturm) which competed in Berlinale 2009 received five.

Funding from the Ministry of Culture and Media provides 2.855 million Euros ($3.93 million CAD) in prize money to the nominees. 250,000 Euros goes to each of the six Best Picture nominees. The two films in the Children or Youth Film category receive 125,000 Euros each, while the two Documentary nominees receive 100,000 Euros. 10,000 Euros goes to each of the acting nominees. The remaining money will be divided amongst the Lola winners to be announced in Berlin's Friedrichstadt Palast on April 23. The gala will be hosted by Barbara Schoneberg.

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Full list of 60th Deutscher Filmpreis nominees:

Best Film
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else), Maren Ade
Die Fremde (When We Leave), Feo Aladag
Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin
Sturm (Storm), Hans-Christian Schmid
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Michael Haneke
Wüstenblume (Desert Flower), Sherry Hormann

Best Documentary
Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten (The Woman with the 5 Elephants), Vadim Jendreyko
Das Herz von Jenin (The Heart of Jenin),. Marcus Vetter, Leon Geller

Best Children's Film
Lippels Traum (Lippel's Dream), Lars Buchel
Vorstadtkrokodile (The Suburban Crocodiles), Christian Ditter

Best Screenplay
Die Fremde (When We Leave), Feo Aladag
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Michael Haneke
Whisky mit Wodka (Whiskey With Vodka), Wolfgang Kohlaase
Sturm (Storm), Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian Schmid

Best Director
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else), Maren Ade
Die Fremde (When We Leave), Feo Aladag 
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Michael Haneke
Sturm (Storm), Hans-Christian Schmid

Best Actress
This is Love, Corinna Harfouch
Die Fremde (When We Leave), Sibel Kekilli
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Susanne Lothar
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else), Birgit Minichmayr

Best Actor
Schwerkraft, Fabian Hinrichs
Whisky mit Wodka (Whiskey With Vodka), Henry Hübchen
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Burghart Klaußner
So glücklich war ich noch nie, Devid Striesow

Best Supporting Actress
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Maria-Victoria Dragus
Vision - aus dem leben der Hildegrad von Bingen (Vision), Hannah Herzsprung
Die Päpstin (Pope Joan), Jördis Triebel
Männerherzen (Men in the City), Nadja Uhl

Best Supporting Actor
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon), Rainer Bock
Männerherzen (Men in the City), Justus von Dohnányi
Henri 4 (Henry of Navarre), Ulrich Noethen
Die Fremde (When We Leave), Settar Tanriögen

Best Cinematography
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
Hilde
Lippels Traum (Lippel's Dream)
Der Räuber (The Robber)

Best Editing
Soul Kitchen
Die Fremde (When We Leave)
Die Tür (The Door)
Sturm (Storm) 
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)

Best Set Design
Hilde
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
Die Päpstin (Pope Joan)
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking)

Best Costume Design
Hilde
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
Die Päpstin (Pope Joan) 
Vision - aus dem leben der Hildegrad von Bingen (Vision)

Best Makeup
Hilde
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking)
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
Henri 4 (Henry of Navarre)

Best Film Music
Salami Aleikum
Sturm (Storm)
Die Tür (The Door)
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking)

Best Sound Design
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking)
Die Tür (The Door)
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon)
Die Päpstin (Pope Joan)