02/05/2017 - One year after its premiere at Cannes, which marked the start of a non-stop barrage of praise and awards, the phenomenal German film has rounded off its Grand Slam by scooping six Lolas

It will come as no surprise that, at the 2017 Lolas-German Film Academy Awards ceremony, which took place on Friday night (28 April) at the palace of the Funkturm Berlin, Toni Erdmann [+see also:
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Q&A: Maren Ade
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The Silver and Bronze Lolas also served to acknowledge films by female directors: these were, respectively, 24 Weeks [+see also:
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Q&A: Anne Zohra Berrached
film profile] by Anne Zohra Berrached (for which this was its only prize out of four nominations) and Wild [+see also:
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film profile] by talented actress-director Nicolette Krebitz, which cashed in on four out of the seven trophies it was in the running for, including Best Supporting Actor, which singled out another Austrian thesp, Georg Friedrich (Silver Bear at this year’s Berlinale for Thomas Arslan’s Bright Nights [+see also:
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Q&A: Thomas Arslan
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film profile] by Josef Hader). 

The biopic Paula [+see also:
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We should, however, point out the absence of several internationally renowned nominees from the winners’ list, such as Andreas Dresen, Chris Kraus and Marie Noëlle, and especially that of the exhilarating summer road trip Goodbye Berlin [+see also:
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Here is the complete list of winners of the 2017 Lolas-German Film Awards:

Golden Lola for Best Film
Toni Erdmann [+see also:
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Silver Lola for Best Film 
24 Weeks [+see also:
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Q&A: Anne Zohra Berrached
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Bronze Lola for Best Film
Wild [+see also:
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Best Documentary
Cahier africain [+see also:
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Best Children’s Film
Auf Augenhöhe [+see also:
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Best Screenplay 
Maren Ade - Toni Erdmann

Best Director 
Maren Ade - Toni Erdmann

Best Lead Actress 
Sandra Hüller - Toni Erdmann

Best Supporting Actress 
Fritzi Haberlandt – Fog in August [+see also:
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Best Lead Actor 
Peter Simonischek - Toni Erdmann

Best Supporting Actor 
Georg Friedrich – Wild

Best Cinematography
Reinhold Vorschneider – Wild

Best Editing 
Heike Parplies - Toni Erdmann

Best Production Design 
Tim Pannen – Paula [+see also:
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Best Costumes
Frauke Firl – Paula

Best Make-up 
Kathi Kullack - Heart of Stone [+see also:
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interview: Johannes Naber
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Best Music 
Oli Biehler – Heart  of Stone

Best Sound 
Rainer Heesch, Christoph Schilling, Martin Steyer - Wild

(Translated from French)