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 Venice Film Festival 2010
The line-up for the Venezia 67 film festival has been announced: The Forgotten Space, a Dutch-Austrian co-production by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch will be presented in the Orizzonti-Section. The four Austrian short films shown in the Orizzonti short film competition include: Shadow Cut by Martin Arnold, Mouse Palace by Harald Hund und Paul Horn, The Future will not be Capitalist by Sasha Pirker and Coming Attractions by Peter Tscherkassky.
 Un Certain Regard 2010: Fipresci-Prize for Pál Adrienn
Ágnes Kocsis’s Pál Adrienn, a Hungarian/Austrian/French/Dutch co-production, was selected the winner of the Fipresci Prize from the Certain Regard line-up at the 2010 Cannes festival.
 Moscow 2010: The Cameramurderer in competition
The Cameramurderer by Robert A. Pejo screened at Moscow’s competition section ist one of the eight Austrian (co)productions that are presented at the 32rd Moscow Film Festival (17 to 26 June). Producer Veit Heiduschka is member of the jury. More
 Christian Berger wins ASC prize for The White Ribbon
Christian Berger won the top feature film prize for The White Ribbon at the 24th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards. The White Ribbon was the first black-and-white film since The Man Who Wasn’t There (2002) and the first European movie since A very Long Engagement (2004) to be awarded this major distinction for cinematography. Christian Berger is also Oscar-nominated for best cinematography.
 Two Oscar nominations for The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon , which won the Palme d’Or and EFA Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film has been chosen for the shortlist in the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar category. Moreover director of photography Christian Berger was nominated for Best Cinematography.
 The White Ribbon on Oscar shortlist
The Academy unveiled its shortlist for this year's Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar. Michael Haneke’s Golden Globe winner The White Ribbon is one of the nine films competing for Oscar nomination. The five Oscar nominees will be annonced on February 2.
 European Film Awards 2009
Michael Haneke’s disturbing historical drama The White Ribbon won the three top prizes at the European Film Awards 2009, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.
 Haneke's Caché Best Film of the Decade
Haneke’s Caché Best Film of the Decade The Times has published a list of the Best 100 films of the Noughties confering the honor of Best Film of the Decade to Michael Haneke’s Caché followed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy) and Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men). A second Haneke entry on the Times’ Top 100 list was granted to The Piano Teacher as n° 85.
 Prix Arte 2009: Three Nominations for Austrian coproductions
Ten documentary films have been nominated for the European Film Award - Prix Arte 2009. This year’s selection of Europe’s most outstanding documentary films includes three Austrian coproductions: Cooking History by Peter Kerekes, Defamation by Yoav Shamir and Pianomania by Lilian Franck & Robert Cibis.
 The White Ribbon: FIPRESCI’s Best Film of the Year
At the opening ceremony of the San Sebastián Film Festival, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon will receive the FIPRESCI Grand Prix 2009 for the Best film of the year. The Grand Prix distinguishes a film from the current season for its overall artistic quality. The White Ribbon, Palme d’or winner 2009, was chosen by 223 critics throughout the world.
 Cannes 09: Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon wins the Palme d'Or
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke's masterfully crafted black and white drama, an absorbing parable of fascism set in a German village on the eve of World War I was awarded the Palme d'Or.
 The White Ribbon also wins the Cannes FIPRESCI AWARD
Cannes FIPRESCI-jury agrees with Isabelle Huppert's festival jury: further to Cannes’ top prize Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon was also awarded the FIPRESCI-award for best film in competition and a Special Mention by jury of the Prix oecuménique.
 La Pivellina: Best European Film in the Directors’ Fortnight
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s La Pivellina has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. La Pivellina will now receive the support of the Europa Cinemas exhibitors who commit themselves to extend the length of its run on screen and additional promotion across the network.
 Cannes 2009 with Haneke’s The White Ribbon and La Pivellina by Tizza Covi&Rainer Frimmel
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon will be one of the 20 contenders for the Palme d’Or at the 62nd Cannes Festival (May 13 - 24). Austria’s second Cannes entry is La Pivellina a first fiction feature by documentary filmmakers Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel, that will be showcased in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.
 Spielmann’s Revanche: US reviews
What finally transpires in this boiling cauldron of conflicting emotions makes Revanche one of the most compelling assemblages of character studies I have seen so far in this too-often-dismal year of moviegoing. The New York Observer
 Tribeca: Special Jury Mention to Defamation
Yoav Shamir’s original analysis of the complex subject of anti-Semitism won a Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 22 ? May 3rd)
 REVANCHE nominated for OSCAR
Götz Spielmann’s Revanche is one of the five nominees competing for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Spielmann’s fourth feature length film, a suspenseful and subtle drama on revenge and reconciliation, premiered in Berlin’s Panorama last year and has been awarded at numerous international film festival. The ceremony for the 81th Academy Awards will take place on February 22. The other contenders are:
 REVANCHE on shortlist for Oscar nominations 2009
Götz Spielmann’s drama Revanche is one of the nine contenders for the nomination for the best foreign-langage film award which have been selected out of 65 submissions from different countries all over the world. The final five Oscar nominees will be announced on 22 January.
 A Look back at 2008
A review of 2008, the year of the Oscar, the most prestigious award that a film can receive; 22 Austrian productions and coproductions that premiered at international festivals, and 40 awards that honored the Austrian film brand.
 Austrian Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film
Götz Spielmann’s Revanche was selected as the Austrian entry for the 81st Academy Awards. The short list of the five nominated films for Best Foreign Language Award will be announced in January 2009, the Oscar-ceremony will take place on February 22, 2009.
 Austrian films and coproductions at the Toronto festival 07
Christian Frosch’s Silent Resident is one of the eight Austrian films and coproductions to showcase at the 32nd Toronto Film Festival. See whole line-up