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Alfred Bauer Award
The Alfred Bauer Prize was an annual film award, presented by the Berlin International Film Festival, as part of its Silver Bear series of awards, to a film that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art". The prize was suspended in 2020 after it was revealed that the founding director of the festival Alfred Bauer had been an active high-ranking Nazi closely involved in a propaganda organisation set up by Joseph Goebbels. The award was presented by the international jury under the title “The Silver Bear – 70th Berlinale”, for that year edition of the festival. Winners ; Notes : # Denotes Ex-aequo win References External links Berlinale website Alfred Bauer Prize The Alfred Bauer Prize was an annual film award, presented by the Berlin International Film Festival, as part of its Silver Bear series of awards, to a film that "opens new perspectives on cinematic art". The prize was suspended in 2020 after it w ... Awards disestablished in 2020 Awards established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Award
Film award is a cinematic award which can be awarded in several categories. Unlike the film festival, the film award is not accompanied by a public screening of competitive films. Film awards are usually awarded based on the results of a secret voting of experts and less often on the results of the jury discussion. Three most prestigious film awards Academy Awards Academy Awards, popularly known as "Oscar" — the award of the American Academy of cinema — is the most famous and prestigious award in filmmaking industry, both domestic and international. The first award ceremony "Oscar" was held in 1929. Now the Oscars ceremony is broadcast live in dozens of countries around the world. Unlike most film festivals, "Oscars" are awarded by the results of a General vote of the Academy members, and not by the choice of the jury. And such a democracy has brought this film a well-deserved popularity, though deprived of elitism. Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Awards is one of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
44th Berlin International Film Festival
The 44th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1994. The Golden Bear was awarded to British-Irish film ''In the Name of the Father'' directed by Jim Sheridan. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian director, actor and producer Erich von Stroheim was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Jeremy Thomas, producer (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Chinghiz Aitmatov, writer (Kyrgyzstan) * María Luisa Bemberg, director and screenwriter (Argentina) * Hsu Feng, actress and producer (Taiwan) * Morgan Freeman, actor (United States) * Francis Girod, actor, director and screenwriter (France) * Corinna Harfouch, actress (Germany) * Carlo Lizzani, director and screenwriter (Italy) * Wolfram Schütte, writer and film critic (Germany) * Susan Seidelman, director (United States) * Hayao Shibata, producer (Japan) Films in competition The following films were in competition for the Golden B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Ciénaga (film)
''La ciénaga'' ( en, italic=yes, The Swamp) is a 2001 co-production (media), internationally co-produced comedy-drama film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel in her feature directorial debut. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián and Daniel Valenzuela. The film is set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina and portrays the life of a self-pitying Argentine bourgeois family. It has received critical acclaim. In 2022, it was selected as the The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema, greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized by the specialized magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema'', which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine ''Fotogramas''s list of the 20 best Argentine films of all time. Plot Mecha, a woman in her 50s with several teenage children and a husband, Gregorio, wants to remain lookin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
51st Berlin International Film Festival
The 51st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 7 to 18, 2001. The festival opened with war-drama film ''Enemy at the Gates'' by Jean-Jacques Annaud. 70mm film, 70 mm restored version of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 Sci-fi film ''2001: A Space Odyssey (film), 2001: A Space Odyssey'' was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to French-British film ''Intimacy (2001 film), Intimacy'' directed by Patrice Chéreau. The retrospective dedicated to German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter Fritz Lang was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Bill Mechanic, producer (United States) - Jury President * Jacqueline Bisset, actress (United Kingdom) * Diego Galán, director and film critic (Spain) * Kyoko Hirano, writer (Japan) * Fatih Akın, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (Germany) * Dario Argento, director, screenwriter and producer (Italy) * Xie Fei (director), Xie Fei, dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50th Berlin International Film Festival
The 50th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 2000. The festival opened with ''The Million Dollar Hotel'' by Wim Wenders. '' Bossa Nova'' by Bruno Barreto, screened out of competition was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to American film ''Magnolia'' directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The retrospective titled ''Artificial People'' and dedicated to artificial beings and machines in the films was shown at the festival, screening films like '' The Golem: How He Came into the World'' and '' The Terminator''. On its 50th anniversary the premieres of the films in competition at the festival moved from Zoo Palast to Theater am Potsdamer Platz located at Potsdamer Platz. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Gong Li, actress (China) - Jury President * Lissy Bellaiche, member of the Det Danske Filminstitut (Denmark) * Peter W. Jansen, scholar and journalist (Germany) * Jean Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karnaval
''Karnaval'' is a French film directed by Thomas Vincent and was released 3 March 1999. The film was nominated for a César Award for Best Debut in 2000. At the 49th Berlin International Film Festival in 1999 it won the Alfred Bauer Prize, a prize awarded in memory of the festival founder. Plot While Dunkirk is in the midst of its Carnival, Larbi, tired of working for nothing for his father, decides to pack it in and re-make his life in the sun of Marseille. When he is waiting for the first train which is to leave in the early hours of the morning, he makes the acquaintance of Béa (Sylvie Testud), who is with her drunk husband. He is straight away captivated by the young woman and she carries him along with her in her passion for the Carnival. The film captures well the character and mad ambience of the extraordinary Dunkirk Carnival. The opinions of the Carnival's friends however remain divided. Some find the picture given here of the Dunkirk Carnival too negative, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th Berlin International Film Festival
The 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 10 to 21 February 1999. The festival opened with ''Aimée & Jaguar'' by Max Färberböck. The Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film '' The Thin Red Line'' directed by Terrence Malick. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger was shown at the festival. 70 mm version of Preminger's 1959 musical film ''Porgy and Bess'' served as the closing night film. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Ángela Molina, actress (Spain) - Jury President * Ken Adam, production designer (United Kingdom) * Paulo Branco, producer and actor (Portugal) * Assi Dayan, actor, screenwriter, director and producer (Israel) * Pierre-Henri Deleau, actor and producer (France) * Katja von Garnier, director (Germany) * Hellmuth Karasek, journalist, writer and film critic (Germany) * Michelle Yeoh, actress (Malaysia) Films in competition The fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hold You Tight (film)
''Hold You Tight'' () is a 1998 Hong Kong romantic drama film directed by Stanley Kwan. The film features full-frontal male nudity. It is Stanley Kwan's seventh feature film, and he says that his previous two documentaries ''A Personal Memoir of Hong Kong'' and '' Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema'' had strong influences on making this film: "Both of them evolved from my thoughts on family background and upbringing, my career as a filmmaker, my sexual orientation and my identity as a Chinese man living in a British colony. The film was written for Hong Kong actress Chingmy Yau who plays two roles, a young executive and a worldly boutique owner." Cast *Chingmy Yau as Ah Moon/Rosa Gao *Sunny Chan as Fung Wai *Eric Tsang as Tong *Lawrence Ko as A-che *Sandra Ng Kwan Yue as Video Dealer * Tony Rayns as Rosa's Friend Awards In 1998, ''Hold You Tight'' won the FIPRESCI Prize — Special Mention and Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
48th Berlin International Film Festival
The 48th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 February 1998. The festival opened with the Irish film ''The Boxer'' by Jim Sheridan. Francis Ford Coppola's '' The Rainmaker'' was selected as the closing night film. The Golden Bear was awarded to Brazilian-French film ''Central Station'' directed by Walter Salles. The retrospective dedicated to ''Siodmak Bros.'', titled Siodmak Bros. Berlin – London – Paris – Hollywood was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Ben Kingsley, actor (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Senta Berger, actress and producer (Austria) * Li Cheuk-to, art director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong) * Leslie Cheung, actor and musician (Hong Kong) * Héctor Olivera, director and screenwriter (Argentina) * Helmut Dietl, director (Germany) * Brigitte Roüan, director, actress and screenwriter (France) * Annette Insdorf, producer (France) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo + Juliet
Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy '' Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest named Friar Laurence. Juliet then becomes Juliet Montague. Forced into exile after slaying Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, in a duel, Romeo commits suicide upon hearing falsely of Juliet's death. The character's origins can be traced as far back as Pyramus, who appears in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', but the first modern incarnation of Romeo is Mariotto in the 33rd of Masuccio Salernitano's ''Il Novellino'' (1476). This story was reworked in 1524 by Luigi da Porto as ''Giulietta e Romeo'' (published posthumously in 1531). Da Porto named the character Romeo Montecchi and his storyline is near-identical to Shakespeare's adaptation. Since no 16th-century direct English translation of ''Giulietta e Romeo'' is known, Shakespeare's main source i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Berlin International Film Festival
The 47th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1997. The Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' directed by Miloš Forman. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian film director G. W. Pabst was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Jack Lang, politician (France) - Jury President * Hark Bohm, actor, director and screenwriter (Germany) * Férid Boughedir, director, screenwriter and producer (Tunisia) * Maggie Cheung, actress and model (Hong Kong) * Fred Gronich, senior executive of the MPAA (United States) * David Hare, director, screenwriter and playwright (United Kingdom) * Per Holst, producer (Denmark) * Boleslaw Michalek, screenwriter and film critic (Poland) * Humberto Solás, director and screenwriter (Cuba) * Marianne Sägebrecht, actress (Germany) * Ning Ying, director (China) Films in competition The following films were in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strangled Lives
''Strangled Lives'' ( it, Vite strozzate, french: Le jour du chien) is a 1996 French-Italian crime film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Alfred Bauer Prize. Cast * Vincent Lindon as Francesco * Sabrina Ferilli as Miriam * Luca Zingaretti as Sergio * Ricky Memphis as Claudio * Lina Sastri as Sauro * Francesco Venditti as Robertino * Violante Placido as Laura * Vittorio Amandola as Antiquario * Giuseppe Manfridi as Brizzi * Marilyn Pater as Consuelo * Giuppy Izzo as Daniela * Antonello Morroni Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina ( 1430February 1479), was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. ... as Faina References External links * 1996 films Italian crime drama films 1990s Italian-language films 1996 crime drama films Films directed by Ricky Togna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
