Comprehensive program on ORF
Vienna (OTS) – With 49 nominations for 18 films in 16 (of a total of 17) categories, the ORF is entering the race for this year’s Austro Oscars. At the top of the list of candidates for the Austrian Film Prize 2024 are the productions “Des Teufels Bad” (eleven nominations), “Rickerl – Music is at most a Hobby” (seven nominations) and “Ein Whole Life”, “Europe” and “Forest” (four nominations each). The award ceremony will take place on June 5th at a gala in Vienna City Hall.
With comprehensive reporting and films, ORF’s TV program surrounding the event is once again all about the coveted awards. The ORF radio stations and the ORF.at network are once again devoting themselves to the 14th Austrian Film Prize.
ORF television film director Katharina Schenk: “ORF as a partner of the Austrian film landscape”
“We are in the middle of another extraordinarily successful cinema year, successful with audiences, successful at festivals. And it makes us proud that the ORF can be part of this success story as a partner of the Austrian film landscape – and will continue to be so in the future. Thanks to an adjustment to the ORF law and good cooperation with this country’s filmmakers, we can make Austrian cinema films more visible, on our channels, but especially on our new platform ORF ON. Film is teamwork, and being part of this large Austrian film team is a privilege and a joy. I congratulate those team members who were nominated for their achievements this year and look forward to an exciting awards ceremony.”
ORF III program manager Peter Schöber: “covering the entire range of Austrian filmmaking”
“ORF III, as a long-standing media partner of the Academy of Austrian Film, will continue to focus its attention on the awarding of the Austrian Film Prize in 2024. The comprehensive representation of the diversity of local filmmaking in the program is our central concern. For this occasion, ORF III has not only launched the ‘Austrian Film’ channel to present film highlights to the audience at prime time, but has also designed a wide range of program focuses that cover the entire spectrum of Austrian filmmaking. In addition, ‘Kultur Today’, the most-watched weekday TV culture magazine, regularly provides information about the most interesting film releases and will once again accompany the Austrian Film Prize with comprehensive reporting this year. I wish all the nominees much success and look forward to the big gala in June in Vienna City Hall.”
The Austrian Film Prize 2024 – Overview of the nominations for ORF co-financed productions:
Best Feature Film:
Club Zero
Europa
Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
The devil’s bath
Best Documentary:
27 Storeys
Souls of a River
Best Female Lead:
Emily Cox / Alma & Oskar
Gerti Drassl / Persona non grata
Anja F. Plaschg / The Devil’s Bath
Brigitte Hobmeier / Wald
Best Male Lead:
Valentin Postlmayr / Alma & Oskar
Stefan Gorski / A whole life
Voodoo Jürgens / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Best Supporting Female Role:
Agnes Hausmann / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Maria Hofstätter / The Devil’s Bath
Gerti Drassl / Wald
Best Male Supporting Role:
Tobias Resch / Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the desert
Karl Fischer / Mermaids Don’t Cry
Ben Winkler / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Best Direction:
Adrian Goiginger / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Ulrich Seidl / Sparta
Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala / The Devil’s Bath
Best Screenplay:
Sudabeh Mortezai / Europe
Adrian Goiginger / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala / The Devil’s Bath
Bestes Casting:
Lucy Pardee / Club Zero
Angelika Kropej / Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby
Henri Steinmetz / The Devil’s Bath
Best Camera:
Klemens Kosher / 27 Storeys
Klemens Hufnagl / Europe
Judith Benedikt / Souls of a River
Martin Gschlacht / The Devil’s Bath
Best assembly:
Julia Drack / Europe
Samira Ghahremani / Matter out of Place
Lisa Zoe Geretschläger / Souls of a River
Michael Palm / The Devil’s Bath
Best Costume Design:
Monika Buttinger / A whole life
Thomas Olah / Stella. One life.
Best Makeup Image:
Heiko Schmidt, Kerstin Gaecklein / Club Zero
Helene Lang, Karoline Strobl, Michaela Sommer / A Whole Life Judith Kröher Falch, Tünde Kiss-Benke / The Devil’s Bad
Best production design:
Jurek Kuttner, Marcel Beranek / A whole life
Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin / The Devil’s Bath
Best music:
Wolf-Maximilian Liebich / She Boss
Anja F. Plaschg (Soap&Skin) / The Devil’s Bad
Diego Ramos Rodríguez, David Schweighart / The Theory of Everything Hania Rani / Forest
Best Sound Design:
Original sound: Carlo Thoss; Sound design: Philipp Mosser, Reinhard Schweiger; Blend: Manuel Grandpierre / 15 years
Original sound: William Edouard Franck; Sound design: Veronika Hlawatsch; Blend: Manuel Grandpierre / Forest
The 14th Austrian Film Prize on ORF
Detailed program in ORF 1, ORF 2 and ORF III
The ORF is supporting the Austrian Film Prize again this year with a program focus. In addition to films, as part of the current reporting, a “Culture Today Special” (June 6, 7:45 p.m., ORF III) is dedicated to the highlights of the award ceremony in Vienna City Hall and gives the winners of the evening their say.
ORF.at network, Teletext, ORF ON and TVthek app under the auspices of the Austro Oscars
The ORF.at network provides current information about the Austrian Film Prize; the award ceremony and Austrian filmmaking will also be the subject of multimedia reporting on ORF Topos. TV programs focused on the Austro Oscars, for which the corresponding online license rights are available, will be available to stream on ORF ON and in the ORF-TVthek app, including their own lane. ORF TELETEXT reports in the top stories (pages 103, 107 and 110) as well as in the magazines “People” (from page 145) and “Culture and Show” (from 190).
The Austrian Film Prize on ORF radio
Ö1 will report on the award winners and from the event in the “Morgenjournal” (7:00 a.m.) on Thursday, June 6th. FM4 provides information on air and on fm4.ORF.at about the awarding of the Austrian Film Prize and carries interviews with the award winners.