Austrian Film Prize 2025: Minichmayr and Schuch clears off!
Austrian Film Prize 2025: Minichmayr and Schuch clears off!
Wien, Österreich - On Thursday evening this year's awarding of the Austrian Film Award took place in the Vienna HQ Studios. On this festive opportunity, the best films and most talented actors were awarded a total of 18 categories. The memory of the victims of the tragic rampage of Graz, which threw a shadow on the celebrations, was particularly moving. The academy expressed their condolences to those affected and the actually planned after-show party was canceled to express grief.
A total of an impressive 298 documentaries, 304 feature films and 218 short films have been submitted since the foundation of the academy. Every year 25 to 30 people have been awarded, and 308 price sculptures have been awarded by Valie Export since the prize.
The big winners of the evening
With five awards each, the film The Village Next to Paradise by Sabine Moser and Oliver Neumann was the great clearer of the evening and received the prize for the best feature film. But also with a tiger sleeping by Anja Salomonowitz could assert himself with five prices in the different categories.
Birgit Minichmayr convinced in the main actor categories with the best female leading role for their performance in with a tiger sleep and Albrecht Schuch was awarded the best male main actor for his role in Pfau-am I real? . In the secondary actor categories, the awards were made:
- Best female supporting role: Gerti Drassl for gina
- Best male supporting role: Thomas Schubert for Andrea
special awards
Mo Harawe was awarded for his direction and the best script by The Village Next to Paradise . In addition, further outstanding services were recognized:
- Best Casting: Mohamed Mohamud Jama ( The Village Next to Paradise )
- Best camera: Mostafa El Kashef ( the village next to paradise )
- Best assembly: Andrea Wagner ( Dear Beautiful Beloved )
- Best costume picture: Anaïs Horn and Marcus Karkhof ( veni vidi vici )
- best mask image: Sam Dopona and Verena Pellegrini ( with a tiger sleep )
- best scene picture: Martin Reiter and Andreas Ertl ( with a tiger sleep )
- Best music: Bernhard Fleischmann ( with a tiger sleep )
- Best sound design: hjalti Bager-Jonathansson et al. ( with a tiger sleep )
- audience highest movie: 80 plus
The ORF was strongly represented with a total of 52 nominations, while top candidates such as Corsage by Marie Kreutzer and Eismayer caused a sensation. Wikipedia reports that the award was particularly exciting this year with a top field of nominations, although most nominations to Corsage (8) and ice wemer
The events related to the Austrian Film Award show how alive and diverse the Austrian film scene is, and that in difficult times there is also thought of the people who are affected. This balance between celebrations and mourns was reflected in the entire event. Details Ort Wien, Österreich Quellen
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