German Film Award for Best Director
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German Film Award for Best Director | |
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![]() Nora Fingscheidt | |
Awarded for | Excellence in Cinematic Direction |
Country | Germany |
Presented by | Deutsche Filmakademie |
First awarded | Josef von Báky Two Times Lotte (1951) |
Currently held by | Nora Fingscheidt System Crasher (2020) |
Website | deutscher-filmpreis |
The German Film Award for Best Director recognizes a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the German film industry.
Multiple wins and nominations
[edit]The following individuals received two or more Best Director awards:
Wins | Director |
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4 | Bernhard Wicki |
3 | Andreas Dresen |
Volker Schlöndorff | |
Werner Schroeter | |
Wim Wenders | |
2 | Fatih Akin |
Helmut Dietl | |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
Helmut Käutner | |
Peter Lilienthal | |
Johannes Schaaf | |
Tom Tykwer |
The following individuals received three or more Best Director nominations:
Nominations | Director |
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7 | Andreas Dresen |
6 | Tom Tykwer |
5 | Dominik Graf |
Christian Petzold | |
Wim Wenders | |
4 | Fatih Akin |
Volker Schlöndorff | |
Bernhard Wicki |
All winners and nominees
[edit]1956-1996
[edit]1990s
[edit]Year | Winners and nominees | English title | Original title |
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1995 | Sönke Wortmann | Maybe… Maybe Not | Der bewegte Mann |
Doris Dörrie | Nobody Loves Me | Keiner liebt mich | |
Dominik Graf | The Invincibles | Die Sieger | |
1996 | Romuald Karmakar | Deathmaker | Der Totmacher |
Rainer Kaufmann | Talk of the Town | Stadtgespräch | |
Dani Levy | Silent Night | Stille Nacht | |
1997 | Helmut Dietl | Rossini | Rossini – oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief |
Caroline Link | Beyond Silence | Jenseits der Stille | |
Roland Suso Richter | 14 Days to Life | 14 Tage lebenslänglich | |
1998 | Wim Wenders | The End of Violence | Am Ende der Gewalt |
Tom Tykwer | Winter Sleepers | Winterschläfer | |
Joseph Vilsmaier | The Harmonists | Comedian Harmonists | |
1999 | Tom Tykwer | Run Lola Run | Lola rennt |
Fatih Akın | Short Sharp Shock | Kurz und schmerzlos | |
Andreas Dresen | Nightshapes | Nachtgestalten |
2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]2020s
[edit]Year | Winners and nominees | English title |
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2020 | Nora Fingscheidt | System Crasher |
İlker Çatak | I Was, I Am, I Will Be | |
Burhan Qurbani | Berlin Alexanderplatz | |
2021 | Maria Schrader | I'm Your Man |
Dominik Graf | Fabian: Going to the Dogs | |
Maria Speth | Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse | |
2022 | Andreas Kleinert | Dear Thomas |
Andreas Dresen | Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush | |
Sebastian Meise | Great Freedom | |
2023 | İlker Çatak | The Teachers' Lounge |
Ali Abbasi | Holy Spider | |
Edward Berger | All Quiet on the Western Front | |
Sonja Heiss | Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war | |
2024 | Ayşe Polat | In the Blind Spot |
Matthias Glasner | Dying | |
Timm Kröger | The Universal Theory |