28-04-2014

FNE at Sun in the Net 2014: Prize Winners

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    My Dog Killer by Mira Fornay My Dog Killer by Mira Fornay

    BRATISLAVA: Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer took home the top prize for Best Film as well as scooping Best Director and Best Screen Play at the Sun in the Net awards which took place on Saturday 26 April at the old National Theatre in Bratislava.

    The next big winner of the evening was Fine, Thanks a debut directed by Mátyás Prikler which won all four of the best acting prizes.

    The Sun in the Net awards which are the Slovak equivalent of the Oscars is a bi-annual event organised by the Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA). This year the members of the Academy selected the nominees from 14 feature films, 13 documentaries, 5 animations and 5 short fiction films that premiered in 2012 and 2013..

    Most nominated were films My Dog Killer (6 nominations), The Candidate (5 nominations), Colette, Fine, Thanks, Clownwise and Miracle (4 nominations), Made in Ash and Normalisation (3 nominations) and Honeymoon, New Life of Family Album and In the Shadow (2 nominations).

    Full list of Winners:

    Best Feature Film : My Dog Killer directed by Mira Fornay
    Production: Mirafox, Cineart TV Prague, Radio and Television Slovakia, Ceska Televize
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Slovak Ministry of Culture and Czech Ministry of Culture

    Best Documentary : Normalisation directed by Robert Kirchhoff
    Produced by Atlier.doc
    Coproduction: Ceska televize, Slovensky filmovy ustav (Slovak Film Institute), Radio and Television Slovakia
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

    Best Animated Film : Snow directed by Ivana Šebestová

    The best short fiction film: Exhibition directed Begányi Peter and Andrew Kolenčík

    Best foreign film distributed in Slovakia : Amour directed by Michael Haneke

    Best Director Mira Fornay for My Dog Killer

    Best Actor in a Leading Role : Attila Mokos in Fine, Thanks
    Produced by MPhilms Ltd
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund

    Best Actress in a Leading Role : Zuzana Mauréry in Fine, Thanks

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role : Miroslav Krobot in Fine, Thanks

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role : Jana Oľhová in Fine, Thanks

    Best Screenplay : Mira Fornay for My Dog Killer

    Best Cinematography: Tomáš Juríček for The Candidate
    Produced by AZYL Production, BDigital
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund

    Best Film Editing : Matej Benes for The Candidate

    Best Film Sound : Peter and Marian Gregorovič Mazáček for Miracle
    Produced by Artileria , Negativ and Ceska Televize
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, Czech State Fund

    Best Film Music : Michael Novinski and Jan P. Muchow for In the Shadow (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland)
    Directed by David Ondříček,
    Production: Lucky Man Films, Trigon Production, Centrala, Barrandov Studios, Odra Film, Krakow Festival Office, Damn Good Production
    Supported by Polish Film Institute, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Czech Ministry of Culture

    Best Art Direction : Michal Struss and Henry Borároš for The Blue Tiger directed by Petr Oukropec, produced by Negativ and Arina Film (German, Slovak, Czech coproduction)

    Best Costume Design : Katarína Štrbová Bieliková for Honeymoon
    Produced by Fog’n’Desire Film, coproduced by Sokol Kollar