Awards - German Film Awards - 1975-1984

Best Feature Film

• Where the Green Ants Dream (Werner Herzog)

Next Best Feature Film

• Kehraus
• White Star (Roland Klick)
• Man Under Suspicion

Best Director

• Josef Rusnak (Kaltes Fieber)
• Uwe Schrader (Kanakerbraut)

Best Screenplay

• Carlo Fedier, Hanns Christian Müller, Gerhard Polt (Kehraus)

Best Female Lead

• Marie Colbin (Der Fall Bachmeier - Keine Zeit für Tränen)
• Nina Hoger (Flucht nach vorn)

Best Male Lead

• Horst Buchholz (Wenn ich mich fürchte)
• Maximilian Schell (Man Under Suspicion)

Best Cinematography

• Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (Where the Green Ants Dream)

Best Editing

• Helga Borsche (Ediths Tagebuch)

Best Non-Feature Film

• Marlene (Karel Dirka)
• Der Versuch zu leben (Johann Feindt)

Best Short Film

• Traumoiden

Other Best Short Film

• Eine Kohlenmine in Südwales (Joachim Kreck)
• Die Landarbeiter (Werner Klett)
• Umbra (Jörg Moser-Metius)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Georg Haentzschel
• Heidemarie Hatheyer
• Theo Nischwitz
• Heinz Pauck
• Peter Pewas
• Georg Thomalla
• Paula Wessely
• Sonja Ziemann

Best Feature Film

• The State of Things (Wim Wenders)

Next Best Feature Film

• Die Heartbreakers
• The White Rose
• Fünf letzte Tage

Best Director

• Lutz Konermann (Aufdermauer)
• Peter Lilienthal (Ruby's Dream)

Best Female Lead

• Lena Stolze (The White Rose)
• Lena Stolze (Fünf letzte Tage)
• Nastassja Kinski (Spring Symphony)

Best Male Lead

• Gerhard Olschewski (Eisenhans)

Best Supporting Female Role

• Irm Hermann (Fünf letzte Tage)

Best Young Actress

• Susanne Lothar (Eisenhans)

Best Cinematography

• Martin Schäfer (Dies rigorose Leben)
• Martin Schäfer (The State of Things)
• Robby Müller (Klassen Feind)

Best Non-Feature Film

• Mit starrem Blick aufs Geld (Klaus Volkenborn)

Best Short Film

• Sydney an der Wupper - Dreamtime (Bettina Woernle)

Other Best Short Film

• Menschen wie aus Glas (Lienhard Wawrzyn)
• Rückkehr der Schleiereule? (Helmut Barth)
• Spätvorstellung

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Karlheinz Böhm
• F.W. Dustmann
• Blandine Ebinger
• Karin Hardt
• Falk Harnack
• Hardy Krüger
• Fritz Thewes
• Luggi Waldleitner

Best Feature Film

• Marianne and Juliane

Next Best Feature Film

• Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
• Lola
• Horror Show (Helmer von Lützelburg)
• The Boat
• Das letzte Loch (Herbert Achternbusch)
• Der Zauberberg (Franz Seitz)

Best Director

• Werner Schroeter (Day of the Idiots)

Best Young Director

• Hans Schmid (Neonstadt)

Best Female Lead

• Barbara Sukowa (Lola)
• Barbara Sukowa (Marianne and Juliane)

Best Male Lead

• Armin Mueller-Stahl (Lola)
• Karl Merkatz (Der Bockerer)

Bes Supporting Male Role

• Jerzy Skolimowski (Circle of Deceit)

Best Cinematography

• Wolfgang Dickmann (The Lite Trap)

Best Decorations

• Heidi Lüdi, Toni Lüdi (Der Zauberberg)

Best Sound Mixing

• Milan Bor (The Boat)

Best Non-Feature Film

• Berliner Stadtbahnbilder
• Von Richtern und anderen Sympathisanten

Best Short Film

• Gustav Mesmer - Der Flieger (Hartmut Schoen)
• Ich deutsche Behörde (Ezra Gerhardt)
• Tänzer im Wassertropfen (Georg Schimanski)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Hans Feld
• Georg Krause
• Maria Paudler
• Magda Schneider
• Luis Trenker
• Unterzeichner des Oberhauser Manifestes

Prize for a Feature Film

• Jede Menge Kohle (Adolf Winkelmann)
• Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück
• Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
• Lightning Over Water (Wim Wenders)

Best Director

• Walter Bockmayer, Rolf Bührmann (Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück)

Best Young Director

• Carin Braun (Schaut her - und seht die Anmut meiner Hände)

Best Female Lead

• Ingrid Caven (Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück)

Best Male Lead

• Sigfrit Steiner (Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel)

Best Supporting Female Role

• Ilse Pagé (Angels of Iron)

Bes Supporting Male Role

• Rolf Zacher (Endstation Freiheit)
• Werner Kreindl (Der Schüler Gerber)

Best Cinematography

• David Sláma (Jede Menge Kohle)

Best Decorations

• Tabea Blumenschein (Looping - Der lange Traum vom kurzen Glück)
• Der Schüler Gerber

Best Non-Feature Film

• Die Generalprobe (Werner Schroeter)
• Das höchste Gut einer Frau ist ihr Schweigen (Gertrud Pinkus)
• Septemberweizen

Best Short Film

• Rückwärts (René Perraudin)
• Skizzen zum Film: Der lautlose Makubra (Jochen Kuhn)
• Zeichen der Zeit

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Karl Born
• Berta Drews
• Paul Frankeur
• Wolf Hart
• Bruno Hübner
• Michael Jary
• Curd Jürgens
• Marika Rökk

Best Feature Film

• The Last Years of Childhood

Next Best Feature Film

• 1+1=3 (Heidi Genée, Veith von Fürstenberg)
• The Uprising (Joachim von Vietinghoff)
• Das Ende des Regenbogens
• Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
• Lena Rais (Christian Rischert)
• The Ortlieb Woman (Joachim von Vietinghoff)

Best Direction and Screenplay

• Heidi Genée (1+1=3)

Best Young Director

• Usch Barthelmeß-Weller, Werner Meyer (The Children from Number 67)

Best Female Lead

• Jutta Lampe (Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness)
• Adelheid Arndt (1+1=3)
• Krista Stadler (Lena Rais)

Best Male Lead

• Thomas Kufahl (Das Ende des Regenbogens)

Bes Supporting Male Role

• Nikolaus Paryla (Lena Rais)

Best Cinematography

• Jürgen Jürges (The Children from Number 67)
• Jürgen Jürges (The Last Years of Childhood)

Best Editing

• Siegrun Jäger (The Uprising)

Best Decorations

• Jan Schlubach (Fabian)

Best Score

• Peer Raben (The Ortlieb Woman)
• Peer Raben (Die Reinheit des Herzens)

Best Non-Feature Film

• Monarch (Regina Ziegler)

Best Short Film

• Execution: A Story of Mary

Other Best Short Film

• Als die Igel größer wurden (Franz Winzentsen)
• Le Manège de Petit Pierre
• Quai de Valmy (Adolf Härtl, Renate Härtl)
• Valse triste (Regina Ziegler)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Boris von Borresholm
• Ivan Desny
• Marlene Dietrich
• Martin Held
• Paul Hubschmid
• Hilde Krahl
• Liselotte Pulver
• Werner Schmidt-Boelcke
• Hannelore Schroth

Best Feature Film

• The Tin Drum (Franz Seitz)

Next Best Feature Film

• Die Abfahrer (Adolf Winkelmann)
• David (Joachim von Vietinghoff)
• It Can Only Get Worse
• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Knife in the Head
• End of the Game

Best Director

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
• Werner Schroeter (The Reign of Naples)

Best Young Director

• Josef Rödl (Albert - warum?)
• Helga Reidemeister (Is This Fate?)

Best Female Lead

• Hanna Schygulla (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

Best Male Lead

• Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre)

Best Supporting Female Role

• Gisela Uhlen (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

Bes Supporting Male Role

• Valtr Taub (David)

Best Cinematography

• Frank Brühne (Knife in the Head)
• Thomas Mauch (The Reign of Naples)

Best Editing

• Dagmar Hirtz (End of the Game)

Best Decorations

• Helga Ballhaus, Norbert Scherer (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

Best Non-Feature Film

• Derby Fever USA (Karel Dirka)
• Die Patriotin
• Tally Brown, New York (Rosa von Praunheim)

Best Short Film

• Adolf, der Weber (Fritz Illing)
• Am Wegerand (Bastian Clevé)
• Eine schöne Maske (Egon Haase)
• Endstation (Michael Lentz)
• Playback (Anton Triyandafilidis)
• Prinzessinnen sind wir nie gewesen (Axel Engstfeld)
• Was denken Sie von mir? (Cornelia Schlingmann)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Mártha Eggerth
• Fritz Falter
• Rudolf Fernau
• Werner Fiedler
• Kurt Hoffmann
• Arthur Kleiner
• Carl Raddatz
• Nadja Tiller
• Luise Ullrich

Best Feature Film

• Die gläserne Zelle

Next Best Feature Film

• Death Is My Trade
• The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
• The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
• Rheingold
• Taugenichts
• Flammende Herzen

Best Director

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Despair)
• Wim Wenders (The American Friend)

Best Female Lead

• Tina Engel (The Second Awakening of Christa Klages)

Best Male Lead

• Peter Kern (Flammende Herzen)
• Peter Kern (Hitler: A Film from Germany)

Best Young Actor

• Rio Reiser (Johnny West)

Best Cinematography

• Ernst Wild (Rheingold)
• Michael Ballhaus (Despair)

Best Editing

• Peter Przygodda (The American Friend)
• Peter Przygodda (Die linkshändige Frau)
• Peter Przygodda (Die gläserne Zelle)

Best Decorations

• Rolf Zehetbauer (Despair)

Outstanding Achievement: Film Conception

• Germany in Autumn

Best Non-Feature Film

• Der Garten Eden (Lutz Mommartz)
• I Often Think of Hawaii (Elfi Mikesch, Laurens Straub)

Best Short Film

• Grüße von Rosita aus Peru (S. Osterried)
• Abstrakte Oper Nr. 1 (Ernst Reinboth)
• La Soufrière (Werner Herzog)
• Quo vadis, Adam?
• Wie im traum (Egon Haase)
• Empor (Bastian Clevé)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Rudolf Arnheim
• René Deltgen
• Gert Fröbe
• Ruth Leuwerik
• Lilli Palmer
• Rudolf Platte
• Franz Seitz
• Douglas Sirk

Best Feature Film

• Heinrich (Regina Ziegler)

Next Best Feature Film

• Grete Minde (Bernd Eichinger)
• Stunde Null (Edgar Reitz)
• Das Brot des Bäckers (Erwin Keusch)
• Die Eroberung der Zitadelle
• Group Portrait with a Lady
• Maiden's War

Best Director

• Volker Schlöndorff (Coup de grâce)

Best Screenplay

• Helma Sanders-Brahms (Heinrich)

Best Female Lead

• Romy Schneider (Group Portrait with a Lady)

Best Young Actress

• Kaki Hunter (Maiden's War)

Best Young Actor

• Bernd Tauber (Das Brot des Bäckers)

Best Cinematography

• Igor Luther (Die Eroberung der Zitadelle)
• Igor Luther (Coup de grâce)
• Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (Heart of Glass)

Best Decorations

• Hans Gailling, Karel Vacek (Maiden's War)

Outstanding Achievement: Direction, Screenplay and Musical Dramaturgy

• Hans-Christof Stenzel (C'est la vie, Rose)

Best Non-Feature Film

• C'est la vie, Rose (Hans-Christof Stenzel, Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast)
• Wer will krank sein auf der Welt? (Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Schubert)

Best Short Film

• Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße (Hans Sachs)

Other Best Short Film

• Als wär's von Beckett (Lutz Mommartz)
• Ellis Island (Ilona Grundmann)
• Der Persönlichkeitstest

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Hans Abich
• Otto-Wilhelm Fischer
• Hildegard Knef
• Hans-Martin Majewski
• Paul Sauerlaender
• Maria Schell
• Hans Söhnker

Best Feature Film - Creating

• Sternsteinhof (Hans W. Geißendörfer)

Best Feature Film - Producing

• Calm Prevails Over the Country

Best Female Lead

• Angela Winkler (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)
• Edith Clever (The Marquise of O)

Best Male Lead

• Bruno Ganz (The Marquise of O)
• Gerhard Olschewski (Verlorenes Leben)

Best Supporting Female Role

• Ulrike Luderer (Sternsteinhof)

Bes Supporting Male Role

• Karl Maria Schley (Mozart: Recordings of a Youth)

Best Cinematography

• Jost Vacano (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)
• Jost Vacano (Dear Fatherland Be at Peace)

Best Decorations

• The Marquise of O

Best Non-Feature Film

• Mozart: Recordings of a Youth

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Carl Aul
• Alfred Bauer
• Hans Christian Blech
• Charlotte Flemming
• Emil Hasler
• Hilmar Hoffmann
• Ernst Krüger
• Bernhard Wicki

Best Feature Film - Creating

• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)

Best Feature Film - Producing

• Lina Braake (Bernhard Sinkel)

Best Director

• Wim Wenders (The Wrong Movement)

Best Young Director

• Ulf Miehe (John Glückstadt)

Best Screenplay

• Peter Handke (The Wrong Movement)

Best Performance by an Ensemble

• The Wrong Movement

Best Female Lead

• Grischa Huber (Under the Beach's Cobbles)
• Lina Carstens (Lina Braake)

Best Male Lead

• Helmut Käutner (Karl May)
• Dieter Laser (John Glückstadt)
• Heinrich Giskes (Under the Beach's Cobbles)

Best Cinematography

• Robby Müller (The Wrong Movement)

Best Editing

• Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death)
• Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
• Peter Przygodda (The Wrong Movement)

Best Decorations

• Henning von Gierke (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)
• Nino Borghi (Karl May)

Best Score

• Jürgen Knieper (The Wrong Movement)

Best Musical Dramaturgy

• Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz (In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death)

Best Non-Feature Film

• In the Name of the People (Ottokar Runze)

Best Short Film

• Hynningen (Werner Nekes)

Honorary Award for Many Years of Outstanding Work in German Film

• Heinz Angermeyer
• Franz Grothe
• Dolly Haas
• Johannes Heesters
• Carl Junghans
• Wolfgang Staudte