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Published by Diagonale. Festival of Austrian Film
Apr 03, 2012

Diagonale 2012 Prize Winners

Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Feature Film (€ 21.000)

Sebastian Meise for Stillleben (Still Life)



Grand Diagonale Prize for Best Austrian Documentary Film (€ 21.000)

Dariusz Kowalski for Richtung Nowa Huta(Destination Nowa Huta)



Best Innovative Cinema Award (€ 10.500)

Josef Dabernig for Hypercrisis



Best Short Feature Film (€ 4.000)

Catalina Molina for Unser Lied



Best Short Documentary Film (€ 4.000)

Houchang Allahyari and Maziyar Moshtagh Gohary for Das persische Krokodil



Best Young Talent Film (€ 4.000)

Conrad Tambour for Der Besuch



Diagonale Prize for Cinematography (€ 2.000 each)

Best cinematography feature film: Gerald Kerkletz for Stillleben and Michael

Best cinematography documentary film: Joerg Burger for The Future's Past – Creating Cambodia



Diagonale Prize for Editing (€ 2.000 each)

Best editing feature film: Wolfgang Widerhofer for Michael

Best editing documentary film: Dieter Pichler for American Passages



Diagonale Prize for Production Design and Costume Design (€ 1.500 each)

Production design feature film: Katrin Huber and Gerhard Dohr for Michael

Honorary Mention: Katrin Huber for Kuma

Costume design feature film: Katharina Wöppermann for Stillleben



Diagonale Audience Award (€ 3.000)

Bernd Liepold-Mosser for Griffen – Auf den Spuren von Peter Handke



Grand Diagonale Performance Award (prize designed and donated by the artist Elfie Semotan)

Johannes Silberschneider



Diagonale Prize Best Actress (€ 3.000)

Christine Ostermayer for Anfang 80



Diagonale Prize Best Actor (€ 3.000)

Michael Fuith for Michael



Prize for Innovative Production (€ 10.000)

epo-film for Atmen (Breathing)



Carl Mayer Script Prize

Main Prize (€ 14.500): Christoph Brunner & Kevin Lutz for Constantin Nikolaus Bickermann

Young Talent Prize (€ 7.200): Hüseyin Tabak for Es war einmal in Wien



Thomas Pluch Script Prize (€ 11.000)

Markus Schleinzer for Michael



Thomas Pluch Recognition Prize (€ 5.500 each)

Thomas Reider & Sebastian Meise for Stillleben

Stefanie Franz for Papa