Nora Fingscheidt

Nora Fingscheidt
Fingscheidt at the Berlinale, 2019
Alma materFilm Academy Baden-Württemberg

Nora Fingscheidt (/ˈfɪŋʃt/ FING-shyte[1]) is a German director and screenwriter. She has been a participant of the Max Ophüls Preis [de] film festival since 2011 for her short films, winning the prize in 2017 for Without This World (Ohne diese Welt).[2]

She became widely known for her critically acclaimed film System Crasher, which premiered at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in 2019 and for which she won the Alfred Bauer Prize as well as other prizes.[3] In 2020, her film also won eight awards at the German Film Awards, including for best picture, best screenplay and best director.[4] She directed The Unforgivable featuring Sandra Bullock based on the 2009 series Unforgiven.[5]

  1. ^ "Nora Fingscheidt, director, System Crasher". YouTube. July 3, 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Ohne diese Welt | Without this World". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  3. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (2019-08-21). "Oscars: Germany Selects 'System Crasher' As International Feature Film Representative". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  4. ^ Meza, Ed (2020-04-25). "Nora Fingscheidt's 'System Crasher' Sweeps Germany's Lolas". Variety. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  5. ^ Goodfellow, Melanie (2019-11-05). "Nora Fingscheidt to direct Sandra Bullock in Netflix feature based on 'Unforgiven' series". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2020-04-28.