02/04/2014 - The German cinema academy has announced the candidates for the upcoming Lola awards. An Austrian film is the most nominated

Six weeks before the big German cinema Lola award ceremony, which will take place on May 9 at the Tempodrom in Berlin, presented by Jan Josef Liefers and screened on ARD, the Academy of German cinema has announced candidates for the sixteen award categories.

The great favourite is The Dark Valley [+see also:
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This film, the object of a gala screening at the last Berlin film festival (read the review) will be up against the latest Edgar Reitz film, Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision [+see also:
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This year’s honorary Lola will be handed to director Helmut Dietl for his contribution to German cinema.

A complete list of candidates for the German cinema 2014 Lola awards

Best film
Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision by Edgar Reitz
Suck Me Shakespeer by Bora Dagtekin
The Dark Valley by Andreas Prochaska
Finsterworld by Frauke Finsterwalder
Love Steaks by Jakob Lass
Two Lives by Georg Maas

Best director
Andreas Prochaska for The Dark Valley
Edgar Reitz for Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Katrin Gebbe for Nothing Bad Can Happen [+see also:
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Best screenplay
Bora Dagtekin for Suck Me Shakespeer
Frauke Finsterwalder and Christian Kracht for Finsterworld 
Edgar Reitz and Gert Heidenreich for Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

Best actress
Juliane Köhler for Two Lives
Carla Juri for Wetlands [+see also:
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Jördis Triebel for West [+see also:
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Best actor
Sascha Alexander Gersak for 5 Years [+see also:
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Dieter Hallervorden for Sein letztes Rennen [+see also:
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Hanno Koffler for Freier Fall [+see also:
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Best supporting actress
Jella Haase for Suck Me Shakespeer
 [+see also:
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Sandra Hüller for Finsterworld

Best supporting actor
Michael Maertens for Finsterworld
Tobias Moretti for The Dark Valley 
Kida Khodr Ramadan for UMMAH – Among Friends [+see also:
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Best photography
Gernot Roll for Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Thomas W. Kiennast for The Dark Valley 
Michael Bertl for Mr. Morgan's Last Love [+see also:
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Hagen Bogdanski for The Physician [+see also:
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Daniel Gottschalk for Run Boy Run [+see also:
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Best editing
Anne Fabini for Houston [+see also:
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Andreas Wodraschke for Wetlands
Hansjörg Weißbrich for Two Lives

Best screenplay
Claus Rudolf Amler for The Dark Valley 
Toni Gerg and Hucky Hornberger for Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Udo Kramer for The Physician
Matthias Müsse for Run Boy Run

Best costumes
Esther Amuser for Heimat: Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Natascha Curtius-Noss for The Dark Valley 
Thomas Oláh for The Physician

Best makeup
Helene Lang and Roman Braunhofer for The Dark Valley 
Kitty Kratschke and Juliane Hübner for Run Boy Run
Heike Merker for The Physician

Best music
Annette Focks for Windstorm [+see also:
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Johannes Lehniger and Peter Folk for Nothing Bad Can Happen
Michaela Melián for Finsterworld
Matthias Weber for The Dark Valley

Best sound
Guido Zettier, Max Thomas Meindl and Benjamin Rosenkind for The Physician
Dietmar Zuson, Christof Ebhardt and Tschangis Chahrokh for The Dark Valley 
Michael Kranz, Stefan Busch and Roland Winke for 3096 Tage [+see also:
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Best documentary
Alphabet by Erwin Wagenhofer
Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery [+see also:
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Master of the Universe [+see also:
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Best children’s film
Bibi & Tina [+see also:
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Windstorm by Katja von Garnier
Mission: Sputnik [+see also:
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(Translated from French)