- Stefan Ruzowitzky
name = Stefan Ruzowitzky
birthdate = birth date and age|1961|12|25
location = flagicon|AustriaVienna ,Austria
occupation =film director
yearsactive = 1996 - present
spouse = Birgit Sturm
academyawards = Best Foreign Language Film
2007 "The Counterfeiters"Stefan Ruzowitzky (born
December 25 ,1961 inVienna ) is anAcademy Award -winningAustria nfilm director andscreenwriter .Ruzowitzky studied drama and history at the
University of Vienna .He started directing
music video s, for example for'N Sync , and commercials.In 1996 Ruzowitzky presented his first feature film, "Tempo", about a group of youths living in Vienna. He was subsequently awarded with the "Max Ophüls Preis". His next feature film, "Die Siebtelbauern", set in the rural
Mühlviertel inUpper Austria , came out in 1998, and was awarded "Best Picture" at theRotterdam film festival as well as at the "Flanders Film Festival". It also got a prize at the International Film Festival inValladolid .In 2000 directed the successful German
horror film "Anatomy", starringFranka Potente , and in 2003 the equally well received sequel "Anatomy 2 ". Between those two Ruzowitzky's first international co-production "All the Queen's Men " from 2001, starringMatt LeBlanc andEddie Izzard , was received poorly by both critics and viewers.In 2007 Ruzowitzky's "The Counterfeiters" premiered at the
Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for a "Golden Bear" award. The film is based on the memoirs ofAdolf Burger , a Jewish Slovak typographer and Holocaust survivor involved inOperation Bernhard . [Adolf Burger, "Des Teufels Werkstatt. Die Geldfälscherwerkstatt im KZ Sachsenhausen." Hentrich & Hentrich: Teetz, 2004. ISBN 978-3-933471-80-2] "The Counterfeiters", nominated on behalf of Austrian cinema, won the Oscar at the80th Academy Awards on 24 Feb. 2008. [ [http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1204399645031 Adacemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards Database 2007 (80th)] ]Filmography
*
1996 – "Tempo" – writer/director
*1998 – "Die Siebtelbauern" – writer/director
*2000 – "Anatomy" – writer/director
*2001 – "All the Queen's Men " – director
*2003 – "Anatomy 2 " – writer/director
*2007 – "The Counterfeiters" – writer/directorOscar
*2008 – "The Counterfeiters" for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
*imdb name|id=0752328|name=Stefan Ruzowitzky
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.