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Dennis Gansel
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Grimme Award (1)
Baden-Baden TV Film Festival (1)
Bavarian Film Awards (1)
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (1)
Day of the German Short Film (1)
European Film Awards (1)
Ghent International Film Festival (1)
German Film Awards (1)
Hamptons International Film Festival (1)
Istanbul Film Festival (1)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1)
Max Ophüls Festival (1)
Sundance Film Festival (1)
Fajr Film Festival (1)
German Film Critics Association Awards (1)
Viareggio EuropaCinema (1)
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (1)
German Television Academy Awards (1)
Jupiter Award (1)
Torino Film Festival (2)
Culture and Diversity Film Festival (1)
Festival de cine Fantástico de Canarias Isla Calavera (1)
13 wins & 10 nominations
Grimme Award
2001 Winner
Adolf Grimme Award
Fiction/Entertainment
Das Phantom
Shared with:
Jürgen Vogel
Baden-Baden TV Film Festival
2000 Winner
3Sat Audience Award
Das Phantom
Bavarian Film Awards
2005 Winner
Bavarian Film Award
Best Direction (Regiepreis)
Before the Fall
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
2010 Winner
Special Prize of the Jury
Feature Film
We Are the Night
Day of the German Short Film
1996 Winner
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award
The Wrong Trip
Shared with:
Christian Becker
European Film Awards
2008 Nominee
EFA People's Choice Award
The Wave
Ghent International Film Festival
2004 Nominee
Grand Prix
Before the Fall
German Film Awards
2003 Winner
Film Award in Gold
Best Screenplay - Unproduced (Bestes Drehbuch - unverfilmt)
Before the Fall
The film was realized after the screenplay won the Award.
Shared with:
Maggie Peren
Hamptons International Film Festival
2004 Winner
Audience Award
Best International Film
Before the Fall
Istanbul Film Festival
2008 Winner
Special Prize of the Jury
The Wave
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2004 Nominee
Crystal Globe
Before the Fall
Max Ophüls Festival
1998 Nominee
Best Short Film
Im Auftrag des Herrn
Sundance Film Festival
2008 Nominee
Grand Jury Prize
World Cinema - Dramatic
The Wave
Fajr Film Festival
2005 Winner
Crystal Simorgh
International Competition - Best Script
Before the Fall
Shared with:
Maggie Peren
German Film Critics Association Awards
2011 Nominee
German Film Critics Award
Best Film (Bester Spielfilm)
We Are the Night
Viareggio EuropaCinema
2004 Winner
EuropaCinema Platinum Award
Best Film
Before the Fall
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
2008 Nominee
Grand Prize
The Wave
German Television Academy Awards
2022 Nominee
German Television Academy Award
Best Director (Beste Regie)
Das Boot
Season 3.
Shared with:
Hans Steinbichler
Jupiter Award
2009 Winner
Jupiter Award
Best German Director
The Wave
Torino Film Festival
2008 Nominee
Prize of the City of Torino
Best Feature Film
The Wave
2008 Winner
Holden Award for Best Script
The Wave
The film describes with lucidity a juvenile scholastic microcosm that is very (perhaps too) organized and rationalized, revealing as the replica of an empty and cruel society.
Shared with:
Peter Thorwarth
Culture and Diversity Film Festival
2020 Winner
Judges Award
Best Director
Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver
Festival de cine Fantástico de Canarias Isla Calavera
2021 Nominee
Isla Calavera Award
Best Feature Film
Jim Button and the Wild 13
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