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Michael Haneke & Thomas Alfredson swept the board at the 2009 Official Rober Awards and the Rober’s Film Poll respectively.
The Rober Academy awarded ’The White Ribbon’ with seven different prizes, including the ones for best picture, director and original screenplay. Meanwhile, fans of the modern vampire classic ‘Let The Right One In’ made the Swedish movie smash the competition in eight different categories at this year’s poll.
Complete list of winners and tally after the jump.
This year’s most nominated film in the Rober Awards poll is a triple tie-up between Michael Haneke’s astonishing vision of the elements in German society which led to the origin of Nazism, “The White Ribbon”; Kathryn Bigelow’s impressive Iraq war movie “The Hurt Locker” and Thomas Alfredson poetic take on the vampire myth in “Let The Right One In”. Each of them has been nominated in eight categories.
A Prophet; District 9; Milk and Synecdoche, New York all follow closely with six nominations apiece.
Popular favourites such as Avatar; Slumdog Millionaire and An Education are also featured in different categories. The new mid-February deadline, put in place to avoid the gap between the US and Europe different release dates, means that for a year only titles belonging to two different award seasons are in the race. 2009’s Oscar contenders such as Slumdog Millionaire; Doubt and The Wrestler are in contention next to this year’s candidates such as Precious or Up In The Air.
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Check the full nominations tally after the jump:
Just a brief note to recommend with enthusiasm the new film by Michael Haneke, “The White Ribbon”: Doing it justice would require an extended essay rather than a mere blog post. It suffices to say that is probably the best movie we have seen since the same German director astonished the world with “Hidden”.
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