Golden Tessa Awards - Winners and nominees
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- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.Best Film In A Foreign Language (1928)
Nominees:
Arsenal
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
October: Ten Days That Shook The World
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc
Spies
Winner: The Passion Of Joan Of Arc - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.Best Original Screenplay (1929)
Nominees:
King Vidor, Marian Ainslee, Ramsom Rideout, Richard Schayer and Wanda Tuchock for Hallelujah
H. H. Caldwell, John Hunter Booth, Katherine Hilliker, Sonya Levien and Tristram Tupper for Lucky Star
Erich Von Stroheim and Marian Ainslee for Queen Kelly
Edmund Goulding for The Trespasser
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali for Un Chien Andalou
Winner: Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali for Un Chien Andalou - DirectorClarence BrownStarsNorma ShearerLeslie HowardLionel BarrymoreAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.Best Actress (1931)
Nominees:
Sylvia Sidney for City Streets
Norma Shearer for A Free Soul
Dorothea Wieck for Madchen In Uniform
Hertha Thiele for Madchen In Uniform
Helen Hayes for The Sin Of Madelon Claudet
Winner: Norma Shearer for A Free Soul - DirectorErnst LubitschStarsMiriam HopkinsKay FrancisHerbert MarshallA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.Best Adapted Screenplay (1932)
Nominees:
Leon Gordon and Willis Goldbeck for Freaks
William A. Drake for Grand Hotel
Brown Holmes and Howard J. Green for I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang
Ben Hecht, John Lee Mahin, Seton I. Miller and W.R. Burnett for Scarface
Grover Jones and Samson Raphaelson for Trouble In Paradise - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.Best Actor (1935)
Nominees:
Robert Donat for The 39 Steps
Boris Karloff for Bride Of Frankenstein
Victor McLaglen for The Informer
Charles Laughton for Mutiny On The Bounty
Fred Astaire for Top Hat
Winner: Victor McLaglen for The Informer - DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.Best Film (1937)
Nominees:
The Awful Truth
Camille
Captain Courageous
A Day At The Races
Lost Horizon
Make Way For Tomorrow
Pepe Le Moko
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Stage Door
A Star Is Born
Winner: Grand Illusion - DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsRobert MontgomeryRosalind RussellMay WhittyWhen a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estate hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.Best Supporting Actress (1937)
Nominees:
Claire Trevor for Dead End
Alice Brady for In Old Chicago
Dame May Whitty for Night Must Fall
Andrea Leeds for Stage Door
Anne Shirley for Stella Dallas
Winner: Dame May Whitty for Night Must Fall - DirectorMichael CurtizWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandBasil RathboneWhen Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.Best Sound (1938)
Nominees:
C.A. Riggs for The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Boris Volsky, Valeri Popov and Vladimir Bogdankevich for Alexander Nevsky
Everett Alton Brown for Angels With Dirty Faces
Sydney Wiles for The Lady Vanishes
Edward Bernds for You Can't Take It With You
Winner: C.A. Riggs for The Adventures Of Robin Hood - DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.Best Original Screenplay (1939)
Nominees:
Lewis R. Foster and Sidney Buchman for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Melchior Lengyel and Walter Reisch for Ninotchka
Jules Furthman for Only Angels Have Wings
Carl Koch and Jean Renoir for The Rules Of The Game
Lamar Trotti for Young Mr. Lincoln
Winner: Carl Koch and Jean Renoir for The Rules Of The Game - DirectorJean CocteauRené ClémentStarsJean MaraisJosette DayMila ParélyA beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.Best Film In A Foreign Language (1946)
Nominees:
Beauty And The Beast
No Regrets For Our Youth
Paisan
Shoeshine
Utamaro And His Five Women
Winner: Beauty And The Beast - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.Best Director (1953)
Nominees:
Max Ophüls for The Earrings Of Madame De...
Fred Zinnemann for From Here To Eternity
Yasujiro Ozu for Tokyo Story
Kenji Mizoguchi for Ugetsu
Henri-Georges Clouzot for The Wages Of Fear
Winner: Yasujiro Ozu for Tokyo Story - DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.Best Actor (1954)
Nominees:
Bing Crosby for The Country Girl
Ray Milland for Dial M For Murder
Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront
James Stewart for Rear Window
James Mason for A Star Is Born
Winner: Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront - DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.Best Editing (1955)
Nominees:
Louis R. Loeffler for The Man With The Golden Arm
Jack Murray for Mister Roberts
Robert Golden for The Night Of The Hunter
William Ziegler for Rebel Without A Cause
George Tomasini for To Catch A Thief
Winner: Robert Golden for The Night Of The Hunter - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.Best Supporting Actress (1958)
Nominees:
Cara Williams for The Defiant Ones
Wendy Hiller for Separate Tables
Janet Leigh for Touch Of Evil
Barbara Bel Geddes for Vertigo
Kim Novak for Vertigo
Winner: Kim Novak for Vertigo - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsMia FarrowJohn CassavetesRuth GordonA young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.Best Supporting Actress (1968)
Nominees:
Lynn Carlin for Faces
Sondra Locke for The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Shani Wallis for Oliver!
Kim Hunter for Planet Of The Apes
Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby
Winner: Ruth Gordon for Rosemary's Baby - DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.Best Actor (1969)
Nominees:
Paul Newman for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robert Redford for Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Dustin Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy
Jon Voight for Midnight Cowboy
William Holden for The Wild Bunch
Winner: Dustin Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.Best Editing (1971)
Nominees:
Bill Butler for A Clockwork Orange
Carl Pingitore for Dirty Harry
Gerald B. Greenberg for The French Connection
John Trumper for Get Carter
Donn Cambern for The Last Picture Show
Winner: Gerald B. Greenberg for The French Connection - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Best Cast (1972)
Nominees:
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God
Cabaret
Cries And Whispers
Deliverance
The Godfather
Winner: The Godfather - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsMartin SheenSissy SpacekWarren OatesAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.Best Film (1973)
Nominees:
Amarcord
American Graffiti
Badlands
Day For Night
Don't Look Now
The Exorcist
The Long Goodbye
Mean Streets
The Spirit Of The Beehive
The Sting
Winner: Badlands - DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Best Original Screenplay (1973)
Nominees:
George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck for American Graffiti
Terrence Malick for Badlands
Mardik Martin and Martin Scorsese for Mean Streets
Steve Shagan for Save The Tiger
David S. Ward for The Sting
Winner: David S. Ward for The Sting - DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.Best Editing (1973)
Nominees:
American Graffiti
The Day Of The Jackal
The Exorcist
Mean Streets
The Sting
Winner: The Exorcist - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonBibi AnderssonScenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.Best Foreign Language Film (1974)
Nominees:
Alice In The Cities
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
Celine And Julie Go Boating
The Phantom Of Liberty
Scenes From A Marriage
Winner: Scenes From A Marriage - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsErland JosephsonSusan FleetwoodAllan EdwallAt the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.Best Cinematography (1986)
Nominees:
Frederick Elmes for Blue Velvet
Chris Menges for The Mission
Robert Richardson for Platoon
Tony Pierce-Roberts for A Room With A View
Sven Nykvist for The Sacrifice
Winner: Sven Nykvist for The Sacrifice - StarsArtur BarcisOlgierd LukaszewiczOlaf LubaszenkoTen television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.Best Foreign Language Film (1989)
Nominees:
A City Of Sadness
The Decalogue
Kiki's Delivery Service
The Killer
The Seventh Continent
Winner: The Decalogue - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.Best Adapted Screenplay (1997)
Nominees:
James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg for Contact
Paul Attanasio for Donnie Brasco
Brian Hegeland and Curtis Hanson for L.A. Confidential
Atom Egoyan for The Sweet Hereafter
David Mamet and Hilary Henkin for Wag The Dog
Winner: Brian Hegeland and Curtis Hanson for L.A. Confidential - DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly ZaneA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.Best Cinematography (1997)
Nominees:
Janusz Kamiński for Amistad
Robert Elswit for Boogie Nights
Guillermo Navarro for Jackie Brown
Dante Spinotti for L.A. Confidential
Russell Carpenter for Titanic
Winner: Russell Carpenter for Titanic - DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Best Actor (1999)
Nominees:
Kevin Spacey for American Beauty
Edward Norton for Fight Club
Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
Russell Crowe for The Insider
Richard Farnsworth for The Straight Story
Winner: Kevin Spacey for American Beauty - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.Best Actor (2004)
Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator
Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Don Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda
Jamie Foxx for Ray
Paul Giamatti for Sideways
Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.Best Film (2005)
Nominees:
Brokeback Mountain
Cache
The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu
Good Night, And Good Luck
A History Of Violence
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Match Point
The New World
Pride And Prejudice
The Squid And The Whale
Winner: Brokeback Mountain - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.Best Director (2005)
Nominees:
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Michael Haneke for Cache
George Clooney for Good Night, And Good Luck
David Cronenberg for A History Of Violence
Terrence Malick for The New World
Winner: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain - DirectorBennett MillerStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanClifton Collins Jr.Catherine KeenerIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.Best Actor (2005)
Nominees:
Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain
Jake Gyllenhaal for Brokeback Mountain
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
David Strathairn for Good Night, And Good Luck
Viggo Mortensen for A History Of Violence
Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote - DirectorDuncan TuckerStarsFelicity HuffmanKevin ZegersFionnula FlanaganA transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.Best Actress (2005)
Nominees:
Naomi Watts for King Kong
Keira Knightley for Pride And Prejudice
Felicty Huffman for Transamerica
Joan Allen for The Upside Of Anger
Reese Witherspoon for Walk The Line
Winner: Felicty Huffman for Transamerica - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsViggo MortensenMaria BelloEd HarrisA mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.Best Supporting Actor (2005)
Nominees:
Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man
Ed Harris for A History Of Violence
William Hurt for A History Of Violence
Mickey Rourke for Sin City
Jeff Daniels for The Squid And The Whale
Winner: Ed Harris for A History Of Violence - DirectorPhil MorrisonStarsEmbeth DavidtzAlessandro NivolaDavid KuhnA dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.Best Supporting Actress (2005)
Nominees:
Anne Hathaway for Brokeback Mountain
Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain
Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
Maria Bello for A History Of Violence
Amy Adams for Junebug
Winner: Amy Adams for Junebug - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsViggo MortensenMaria BelloEd HarrisA mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.Best Cast (2005)
Nominees:
Capote
Good Night, And Good Luck
A History Of Violence
Munich
The Squid And The Whale
Winner: A History Of Violence - DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsOwen KlineJeff DanielsLaura LinneyFollows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.Best Original Screenplay (2005)
Nominees:
George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, And Good Luck
Woody Allen for Match Point
Nick Cave for The Proposition
Noah Baumbach for The Squid And The Whale
Guillermo Arriaga for The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada
Winner: Noah Baumbach for The Squid And The Whale - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.Best Adapted Screenplay (2005)
Nominees:
Diana Ossana and Larry McMurty for Brokeback Mountain
Dan Futterman for Capote
Jeffrey Caine for The Constant Gardener
John Olson for A History Of Violence
Shane Black for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Winner: Diana Ossana and Larry McMurty for Brokeback Mountain - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsDaniel AuteuilJuliette BinocheMaurice BénichouA married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.Best Foreign Language Film (2005)
Nominees:
A Bittersweet Life
Cache
The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu
L'Enfant
Lady Vengeance
Winner: Cache - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsEnnis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.Best Score (2005)
Nominees:
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard for Batman Begins
Gustavo Santaolalla for Brokeback Mountain
John Williams for Memoirs Of A Geisha
Dario Marianelli for Pride And Prejudice
Graeme Revell, John Debney and Robert Rodriguez for Sin City
Winner: Gustavo Santaolalla for Brokeback Mountain - DirectorPeter JacksonStarsNaomi WattsJack BlackAdrien BrodyA greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.Best Sound (2005)
Nominees:
Batman Begins
King Kong
Munich
Sin City
War Of The Worlds
Winner: King Kong - DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsJeremy RennerAnthony MackieBrian GeraghtyDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.Best Cinematography (2009)
Nominees:
Mauro Fiore for Avatar
Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson for Inglourious Basterds
Lance Acord for Where The Wild Things Are
Christian Berger for The White Ribbon
Winner: Barry Ackroyd for The Hurt Locker - DirectorTom HooperStarsHugh JackmanRussell CroweAnne HathawayIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.Best Supporting Actress (2012)
Nominees:
Anne Hathaway for The Master
Sally Field in Lincoln
Amy Adams in The Master
Helen Hunt for The Sessions
Judi Dench for Skyfall
Winner: Anne Hathaway for The Master - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.Best Director (2015)
Nominees:
Todd Haynes for Carol
George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro G. Inarritu for The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson for Room
Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
Winner: George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTom HardyCharlize TheronNicholas HoultIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.Best Editing (2015)
Nominees:
Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione for The Revenant
Nathan Nugent for Room
Joe Walker for Sicario
Tom McArdle for Spotlight
Winner: Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road - DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsSally HawkinsOctavia SpencerMichael ShannonAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.Best Score (2017)
Nominees:
Benjamin Walfisch and Hans Zimmer for Blade Runner 2049
Hans Zimmer for Dunkirk
Johnny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat for The Shape Of Water
Carter Burwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Winner: Alexandre Desplat for The Shape Of Water - DirectorBarry JenkinsStarsKiKi LayneStephan JamesRegina KingA young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out to prove her childhood friend and lover innocent of a crime he didn't commit.Best Score (2018)
Nominees:
Terence Blanchard for BlacKkKlansman
Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
Justin Hurwitz for First Man
Nicholas Britell for If Beale Street Could Talk
Alexandre Britell for Isle Of Dogs
Winner: Nicholas Britell for If Beale Street Could Talk