Lolas 2021 German Film Awards Winners List – The Hollywood Reporter
I’m Your Man, a sci-fi rom-com from director Maria Schrader, that includes Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens as a German-speaking romance robotic, has received the Lola in Gold for finest movie on the 2021 German Movie Prize, Germany’s prime movie awards.
Schrader, contemporary off her Emmy win (for finest directing for a restricted sequence in Netflix’s Unorthodox), picked up the perfect director Lola for I’m Your Man. Schrader and co-screenwriter Jan Schomburg took the perfect screenplay honor for his or her I’m Your Man script, an adaptation of a brief story by German author Emma Braslavsky. Maren Eggert, who performs the robotic’s no-nonsense human love curiosity, received the perfect actress Lola for her efficiency, a job that has already earned her the perfect actress Silver Bear on the Berlin Movie Competition, the place I’m Your Man premiered earlier this yr.
The movie is Germany’s official entry for the 2022 Oscars in the perfect worldwide characteristic class.
For finest actor, Stevens misplaced out to German star Oliver Masucci, of Darkish and Look Who’s Again fame, who took the Lola trophy for his flip as legendary director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Oskar Roehler’s Enfant horrible.
The most effective documentary honor went to Maria Speth for Mr. Bachmann and His Class, a heartwarming portrait of an unorthodox instructor and his sixth-grade college students, most of them from immigrant households. The movie was one other Berlin Competition hit, the place it received the Silver Bear jury prize and Berlin’s inaugural pageant viewers award. Greatest youngsters’s movie went to Byambasuren Davaa’s Mongolian-set Veins of the World.
Lorna Ishema received finest supporting actress for Sarah Blasskiewitz’s Ivie wie Ivie, wherein she performs an Afro-German looking for her roots after the loss of life of her father. Thorsten Merten took the best-supporting actor Lola for his efficiency in Curveball, director Johannes Naber’s bitter political satire concerning the true story of the German authorities’s involvement within the pretend intelligence about weapons of mass destruction used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Within the technical classes, Tides, aka The Colony, Tim Fehlbaum’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama set on a future Earth decimated by environmental catastrophe, received 4 Lolas: finest visible results for Denis Behnke, finest set design for Julian R. Wagner’s dystopian landscapes, finest movie rating for composer Lorenz Dangel and finest hair and make-up for Sabine Schumann. Greatest costume design went to Tanja Hausner for her interval outfits in The Royal Recreation, Philipp Stölzl’s adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s German literary basic of the identical identify. Hanno Lentz received the perfect cinematography Lola for his experimental lensing of one other literary adaption: Dominik Graf’s Fabian: Going to the Canines, tailored from the Erich Kästner novel, with the movie additionally taking finest editor honors for Claudia Wolscht.
The most effective sound design honor was awarded to Pascal Capitolin and Richard Borowski for his or her work on Enrique Sánchez Lansch’s music documentary A Symphony of Noise.
The 2021 Lola Awards had been held in individual in Berlin in entrance of a gala crowd of 1,200 (all both absolutely vaccinated or freshly-tested), a giant change from final yr’s online-only occasion. The German Movie Academy, whose 2,100 members picked tonight’s winners, hope the Lolas will assist kickstart the native movie business, which is barely now rising from cinema lockdowns imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most German cinemas have reopened however capability and varied different security restrictions stay in place.
Of this yr’s nominees, none is what one might name a field workplace hit and few might be recognized to a broader German viewers. Simon Verhoeven’s comedy Nightlife, which was not nominated in any of the principle classes, however obtained the Lola for many profitable German movie of the yr, earned a good $14 million on the field workplace, greater than all of the nominees mixed. Even that has a lot to do with timing: Nightlife was launched early final yr in Germany earlier than the nation went into COVID-19 lockdown.
Full Listing of 2021 German Movie Award Winners
Greatest Movie
I’m Your Man, producer: Lisa Blumenberg
Greatest Documentary
Mr. Bachmann and His Class, producer: Maria Speth
Greatest Youngsters’s Movie
Veins of the World, producers: Eva Kemme, Ansgar Frerich, Tobias N. Siebert
Greatest Director
I’m Your Man, director: Maria Schrader
Greatest Screenplay
I’m Your Man, screenwriters: Jan Schomburg, Maria Schrader
Greatest Actress
Maren Eggert for I’m Your Man
Greatest Actor
Oliver Masucci for Enfant horrible
Greatest Supporting Actress
Lorna Ishema for Ivie wie Ivie
Greatest Supporting Actor
Thorsten Merten for Curveball
Greatest Cinematography
Fabian: Going to the Canines, cinematographer: Hanno Lentz
Greatest Enhancing
Fabian: Going to the Canines, editor: Claudia Wolscht
Greatest Sound Design
A Symphony of Noise, sound designers: Pascal Capitolin, Richard Borowski
Greatest Movie Rating
Tides, composer: Lorenz Dangel
Greatest Set Design
Tides, set designer: Julian R. Wagner
Greatest Costume Design
The Royal Recreation, costume designer: Tanja Hausner
Greatest Hair and Make-up
Tides, hair and make-up artist: Sabine Schumann
Greatest Visible Results
Tides, VFX Artist: Denis Behnke
Most Profitable German Movie
Nightlife, director: Simon Verhoeven, producers: Max Wiedemann, Quirin Berg
Lifetime Achievement Award
Senta Berger