Awards & Winners

Bernhard Wicki

Date of Birth 28-October-1919
Place of Birth Sankt Pölten
(Austria, Lower Austria)
Nationality Austria
Also know as Bernard Wicki, Bernard Wicky, Bernard Wicki, Bernard Wicky
Profession Film Director, Actor, Screenwriter
Bernhard Wicki was an Austrian actor and film director. Wicki studied in the city of Breslau such topics as Art History, History und German Literature. In 1938, he transferred to the drama school of the Staatliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin. In 1939, because of his membership in the Bündischen Jugend he was imprisoned for many months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After his release he moved to Vienna, and then in 1944 to Switzerland. After the end of World War II, he starred in many films, like Die letzte Brücke and Es geschah am 20. Juli. He was also a photographer. His first attempt at directing came three years later with the documentary Warum sind sie gegen uns?. He became internationally famous with his anti-war film of 1959 called Die Brücke, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1961, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival for his film The Miracle of Father Malachia. After his death, a fund was started in 2001 and named after him in Munich, the Bernhard Wicki Memorial Fund. Since 2002, it has awarded a film prize, The Bridge, considered a peace prize. A further prize was endowed in 2006 with 15,000 euros, a prize given in the city of Emden since 2000. He was a patron of the International Film Festival in Emden-Norderney which first started in 1990.

Awards by Bernhard Wicki

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bernhard Wicki.

1990


German Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : Spider's Web

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Direction Spider's Web

1989


Special Film Award '40th Anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany'
Honored for : The Bridge

Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Special Film Award '40th Anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany' The Bridge

1985


German Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : Grünstein's Clever Move

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Direction Grünstein's Clever Move

1976


German Film Award - Special Award for Outstanding Contributions to German Cinema
(For their continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years.)

1972


German Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : False Weights

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Direction False Weights

1961


National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Honored for : The Bridge
(West Germany)

1960


German Film Award for Best Direction
Honored for : The Bridge

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award for Best Direction The Bridge

1959


German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film or Documentary
Honored for : Warum sind sie gegen uns?
(Akzent-Film)

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
German Film Award in Silver for Best Cultural Film or Documentary Warum sind sie gegen uns?
Akzent-Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Bridge
Country: West Germany, in German and English