Cinematographer Michał Dimek’s jet-black lens for The Girl with a Needle won the Energa Camera Image Golden Frog Award at the closing ceremony of the Cinematography Festival in Torun, Poland, on Saturday. Director von Horn received a special award.
The film, Denmark’s entry for this season’s Academy Awards for international feature films, is about a Danish woman who set up an underground adoption agency to help poor women deal with poverty in post-World War I Copenhagen. , loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overby. Unwanted pregnancy.
Cinematographer Lol Crowley’s lensing of Brady Corbet’s period drama “The Brutalist” for A24 wins “Silver Frog” and director Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying Netflix musical film “The Brutalist.” Paul Guillaume’s cinematography of “Emilia Perez” won “The Bronze Frog.” The Austrian international feature film “The Devil’s Bath” (directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Feil, cinematography by Martin Guslacht) has been awarded the FIPRESCI Critics Award.
In three of the past five years, the winner of Camerimage’s Golden Frog has won an Oscar for cinematography, including 2019’s Joker, 2020’s Nomadland and 2022’s Tar. It has also been nominated for awards. Following the Golden Frog win for Aida, the black-and-white drama won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (now International Feature) in 2013, earning it its second Academy Award nomination. Cinematography (Łukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski).
This year’s main competition jury, led by jury chair Cate Blanchett, includes cinematographer Anthony Dodd Mantle, cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Jolanta Dyrevska, producer and columnist Anna Higgs, and costume designer Sandy Powell, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and the aforementioned Zal were also credited.
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Here is the list of winners:
main competition golden frog: Michał Dimek’s The Girl with a Needle, special mention to director Magnus von Horn
main competition silver frog: “LOL CRAWLEY” from Brady Corbet’s “Brutalist”
main competition bronze frog: Paul Guillaume “Emilia Perez” Directed by Jacques Audiard
Fiplessi (International Federation of Film Critics) Best Film Award: “Devil’s Bath” Cinematography: Martin Guslacht, Director: Veronica Franz, Severin Fiala
Golden Frog for Cinematographer Debut Competition: Todd Martin “Tatami” Directed by Saar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattif
Director debut competition “Golden Frog”: Santosh’s SANDHYA SURI
Grand Prix Music Video Competition – Golden Frog: Rodrigo Prieto “Taylor Swift – Fortnite” (feat. Post Malone) Directed by Taylor Swift
Grand Prix TV Series Competition – Golden Frog: Robert Elswit, Ripley: The Hard to Find, directed by Steven Zaillian
Polish Film Competition Grand Prix – Golden Frog: Piotr Soboczyski JR “Scarbone” Director: Paweł Masłona
Golden tadpole: “Orchid” is directed by Tyn Brendel, who graduated from the Lodz Film School.
Silver tadpole: “I Am Not Here” directed by Daniel Le Hay, a graduate of the Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School.
bronze tadpole: Lisa Jirg “Titans” from Filmakademi Baden-Wittenberg Directed by Yannick Weisse.
Audience Award: Tatami, directed by Todd Martin, Saar Amir Ebrahimi, and Guy Nattif.
