Austro Oscars for, among others, “Des Teufels Bad” and “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby”
Vienna (OTS) – 16 of a total of 18 prizes at this year’s Austro-Oscars for cinema films co-financed by ORF as part of the film/television agreement! Today, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, the Austrian Film Prize was awarded for the 14th time in Vienna City Hall. With eight awards – including “Best Feature Film” – the drama “Des Teufels Bad” is the big winner of the evening. The comedy “Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby” received four prizes. One trophy each went to “Souls of a River,” “Mermaids Don’t Cry” and “Wald.” The drama “Andrea Gets a Divorce” was honored as the film with the highest audience. The ORF is once again devoting itself to the Austrian Film Prize this year in its programs and on ORF ON.
The Austrian Film Prize 2024 – The ORF winners at a glance
Best Feature Film: The Devil’s Bath (Producer: Ulrich Seidl)
Best Documentary: Souls of a River (Producer: Peter Janecek, Director: Chris Krikellis)
Best female lead: Anja F. Plaschg (Des Teufels Bad)
Best male lead: Voodoo Jürgens (Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby)
Best supporting female role: Maria Hofstätter (Des Teufels Bad) Best supporting male role: Karl Fischer (Mermaids Don’t Cry) Best director: Adrian Goiginger (Rickerl – Music is at most a hobby) Best screenplay: Adrian Goiginger (Rickerl – Music is at most a Hobby)
Best casting: Angelika Kropej (Rickerl – music is at most a hobby)
Best cinematography: Martin Gschlacht (Des Teufels Bad)
Best Montage: Michael Palm (The Devil’s Bath)
Best make-up image: Judith Kröher Falch and Tünde Kiss-Benke (Des Teufels Bad)
Best production design: Andreas Donhauser and Renate Martin (Des Teufels Bad)
Best music: Anja F. Plaschg or Soap&Skin (Des Teufels Bad)
Best sound design: Original sound: William Edouard Franck, Sound design: Veronika Hlawatsch, Mixing: Manuel Grandpierre (Forest) Most popular film: Andrea gets divorced (Producers:
Michael Katz and Veit Heiduschka, director: Josef Hader, distribution:
Michael Stejskal)
ORF General Director Roland Weißmann: “ORF as a convinced partner of Austrian film”
“As a public broadcaster, ORF sees itself as a committed partner of Austrian film and, as the largest client in the domestic film and TV industry, invests around 100 million euros in Austria as a film and production location every year. In addition to the high level of audience response, the awards at the Austrian Film Prize, like this year with 16 trophies for films co-financed by the ORF as part of the film/television agreement, are another pleasing testament to this successful collaboration. Congratulations to the winners of the evening and all other nominees! Austrian films also delight viewers in the ORF programs – just in February, for example, an audience of millions traveled to ‘Greece’ together with Thomas Stipsits. But numerous Austro hits can be seen not only on linear television; we are pleased to be able to provide an extensive streaming offering on ORF ON, which includes numerous cinema and TV film highlights.”
ORF program director Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz: “ORF continues to support the Austrian film industry”
“The Austrian Film Prize celebrates the diversity and creativity of our filmmakers. I warmly congratulate all nominees and all winners, and promise that the ORF will continue to stand by the Austrian film industry to bring their stories to life and to offer audiences cinema at the highest level.”
The Austrian Film Prize 2024 in ORF 1, ORF 2 and ORF III
The ORF is supporting the Austrian Film Prize again this year with a program focus. The ORF cinema magazine “Trailer.AT” (June 5, 9:50 p.m.; June 9, 7:05 p.m. and June 15, 10:35 p.m. on ORF 1; June 16, 9:05 a.m. and June 19, 1:55 p.m. on ORF III and already on ORF ON) takes a look behind the scenes of Austrian cinema in its seventh edition. After “Little Joe” and “Joy” as well as the ORF premiere of Adrian Goiginger’s ORF-co-financed drama “Märzengrund” (all available on ORF ON), ORF 2 is showing the top-class historical drama “A village defends itself” on the occasion of this year’s Austrian Film Prize ( June 5th, 11.40 p.m., ORF 2 and already on ORF ON) with, among others, Fritz Karl, Harald Windisch, Brigitte Hobmeier, Verena Altenberger, Maresi Riegner, Gerhard Liebmann, Francis Fulton-Smith, Oliver Masucci, Philipp Hochmair all about the true story of resistance fighters who rose up against the Nazi regime in Altaussee in the last days of the Second World War and thus saved the local salt mine and brutally stolen works of art from destruction. In a new issue, the cultural magazine “Heim-Kino – News from Austrian Film” (June 6, 10:20 p.m., ORF 1) reports on the highlights of the award ceremony in Vienna City Hall on the day after the glamorous gala of the 14th Austrian Film Prize and presents more spotlight on the winners. A “Culture Today Special” (June 6, 7:45 p.m., ORF III and ORF ON) takes stock of this year’s Austro-Oscars and lets award winners have their say. As “The Midwife – On Life and Death” (June 6, 12:05 a.m., ORF 2 and ORF ON), Brigitte Hobmeier finds herself in this historical drama in an existential conflict between the art of midwifery, which has been handed down over centuries, and the interests of male-dominated obstetric medicine . The multiple award-winning ORF co-financed court drama “Murer – Anatomy of a Trial” (June 7, 12:15 a.m., ORF 2 and ORF ON), which stars Alexander E. Fennon, Karl Fischer, Karl Markovics and Gerhard Liebmann, among others, is dedicated one of the biggest judicial scandals of the Second Republic – the trial against the former SA leader Franz Murer. In ORF 1, Verena Altenberger, as a drug-addicted mother, tries to create “the best of all worlds” for her son (June 11, 1:10 a.m., ORF 1 and ORF ON). Director and screenwriter Adrian Goiginger tells the story of his childhood in the award-winning drama.
ORF.at network, ORF ON, ORF TELETEXT on the “Austro Oscars”
The ORF.at network provides current information about the Austrian Film Prize; the award ceremony and Austrian filmmaking are also the subject of multimedia reporting on ORF Topos. “Austrian masterpieces” such as “Breathing”, “Great Freedom”, “Maybe in Another Life” and “Silent Reserves” can be discovered on the new streaming platform ORF ON in a video collection specially designed for the Austrian Film Prize. In addition, ORF ON is bringing the gala as a “live special” and will also stream TV shows focusing on the Austro-Oscars, for which the corresponding online license rights are available. ORF TELETEXT reports in the top stories 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.