Cinematographer Michał Dymek’s stark black-and-white lensing of “The Girl With the Needle” won the EnergaCamerimage Golden Frog, with special mention going to director Magnus von Horn, at the cinematography festival’s closing ceremony, Saturday in Torun, Poland.
The film, which is Denmark’s entry for this season’s Academy Award for an international feature, is loosely based on the true story of Dagmar Overbye, a Danish woman who established an underground adoption agency in post-World War I Copenhagen to help poor women dealing with unwanted pregnancies.
Cinematographer Lol Crawley’s lensing of Brady Corbet’s period drama “The Brutalist” for A24 collected the Silver Frog, and Paul Guillaume’s cinematography on Jacques Audiard’s genre-defying Netflix musical movie “Emilia Pérez” claimed the Bronze Frog. Austria’s international feature entry “The Devil’s Bath,” directed by Veronica Franz and Severin Fail with cinematography by Martin Gschlacht, received the FIPRESCI critics prize.
In three of the past five years, the winner of Camerimage‘s Golden Frog also earned an Oscar nomination in cinematography, including “Joker” in 2019, “Nomadland” in 2020 and “Tar” in 2022. Following the Golden Frog win for “Ida” in 2013, the black and white drama went on to win the Oscar a foreign language film (now the international feature category) and earn a second nomination in cinematography (for Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski).
This year’s main competition jury, led by jury president Cate Blanchett, included cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Jolanta Dylewska, producer/columnist Anna Higgs, costume designer Sandy Powell, and cinematographers Rodrigo Prieto and aforementioned Zal.
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The list of award winners follows:
Main Competition Golden Frog: MICHAŁ DYMEK for The Girl with the Needle, Special mention goes to director Magnus von Horn
Main Competition Silver Frog: LOL CRAWLEY for The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet
Main Competition Bronze Frog: PAUL GUILHAUME for Emilia Pérez directed by Jacques Audiard
FIPRESCI (International Federations of Film Critics) Award for Best Film: The Devil’s Bath, cinematography by MARTIN GSCHLACHT, directed by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Golden Frog in the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition: TODD MARTIN for Tatami directed by Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv
Golden Frog in the Directors’ Debuts Competition: SANDHYA SURI for Santosh
Grand Prix Music Videos Competition – Golden Frog: RODRIGO PRIETO “Taylor Swift – Fortnight” (Feat. Post Malone) directed by TAYLOR SWIFT
Grand Prix TV Series Competition – Golden Frog: ROBERT ELSWIT for “Ripley: A Hard Man to Find,” directed by Steven Zairian
Grand Prix Polish Films Competition – Golden Frog: PIOTR SOBOCIŃSKI JR for “Scarborn,” directed by: PAWEŁ MAŚLONA
Golden Tadpole: TIN BRENDEL from Łódź Film School for “Orchid” directed by TIN BRENDEL.
Silver Tadpole: DANIEL LE HAI from Krzystof Kieslowski Film School for “I Am Not Here” directed by DANIEL LE HAI.
Bronze Tadpole: LISA JILG from Filmakademie Baden-Wittenberg for “Titans” directed by JANNIK WEIßE.
Audience Award: TODD MARTIN for “Tatami” directed by Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv.
