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Rainer Kaufmann

14 wins & 13 nominations

Grimme Award

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2014 Nominee Adolf Grimme Award
    • Fiction
    • Operation Sugar
    Shared with: Philip Koch
  • Blaubeerblau (2011)
    2013 Nominee Adolf Grimme Award
    • Fiction
    • Blaubeerblau
    Shared with: Beate Langmaack
  • Blaubeerblau (2011)
    2013 Winner Audience Award of the 'Marl Group'
    • Blaubeerblau
    Shared with: Beate Langmaack · Stipe Erceg · Devid Striesow
  • Unspoken (2010)
    2011 Winner Adolf Grimme Award
    • Fiction
    • Unspoken
    Shared with: Ariela Bogenberger · Nina Kunzendorf
  • Marias letzte Reise (2005)
    2006 Winner Adolf Grimme Award in Gold
    • Fiction/Entertainment
    • Marias letzte Reise
    Shared with: Ariela Bogenberger · Monica Bleibtreu

Baden-Baden TV Film Festival

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2013 Nominee 3Sat Audience Award
    • Operation Sugar
  • Unspoken (2010)
    2010 Nominee 3Sat Audience Award
    • Unspoken
  • Bruno Ganz and Monica Bleibtreu in Ein starker Abgang (2008)
    2008 Nominee 3Sat Audience Award
    • Ein starker Abgang
  • Marias letzte Reise (2005)
    2005 Winner 3Sat Audience Award
    • Marias letzte Reise

Bavarian Film Awards

  • Talk of the Town (1995)
    1996 Winner Bavarian Film Award
    • Best Direction - Young Film (Regienachwuchspreis)
    • Talk of the Town

Bavarian TV Awards

  • Die Kirschenkönigin (2004)
    2005 Winner Bavarian TV Award
    • Directing
    • Die Kirschenkönigin
    • Marias letzte Reise

German Film Awards

  • Talk of the Town (1995)
    1996 Nominee Film Award in Gold
    • Best Direction (Beste Regie)
    • Talk of the Town

German Television Awards

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2013 Winner German Television Award
    • Best Movie Made for Television (Bester Fernsehfilm)
    • Operation Sugar
    Shared with: Gabriela Sperl · Morten Søborg · Knut Loewe · Christel Suckow
  • Unspoken (2010)
    2011 Nominee German Television Award
    • Best Movie Made for Television (Bester Fernsehfilm)
    • Unspoken
    Shared with: Gabriela Sperl
  • Marias letzte Reise (2005)
    2005 Winner German Television Award
    • Best Movie Made for Television or Miniseries (Bester Fernsehfilm/Mehrteiler)
    • Marias letzte Reise
    Shared with: Kerstin Schmidbauer · Bernd Burgemeister · Bettina Reitz · Bettina Ricklefs

Golden Camera, Germany

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2014 Nominee Golden Camera
    • Best German Television Film
    • Operation Sugar
  • Blaubeerblau (2011)
    2013 Nominee Golden Camera
    • Best German TV Film
    • Blaubeerblau
  • Unspoken (2010)
    2011 Nominee Golden Camera
    • Best German TV Film
    • Unspoken

Max Ophüls Festival

  • Einer meiner ältesten Freunde (1994)
    1995 Winner Max Ophüls Award
    • Einer meiner ältesten Freunde
  • Einer meiner ältesten Freunde (1994)
    1995 Winner Interfilm Award
    • Einer meiner ältesten Freunde

Munich Film Festival

  • Talk of the Town (1995)
    1995 Winner Director's Promotional Award
    • Talk of the Town
    Tied with Ex (1995).

Romy Gala, Austria

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2014 Winner Romy
    • Best TV Direction (Beste Fernsehregie)
    • Operation Sugar

TeleStar, Germany

  • 1994 Winner Promotional Award
    • Teleplay
    • Dann eben mit Gewalt

Prix Europa

  • 1993 Winner Prix Europa
    • TV Fiction
    • Dann eben mit Gewalt
    Shared with: Klaus Richter · Jan de Zanger

Shanghai International TV Festival

  • Blaubeerblau (2011)
    2013 Nominee Magnolia Award
    • Best TV Film
    • Blaubeerblau

German Television Academy Awards

  • Operation Sugar (2012)
    2013 Nominee German Television Academy Award
    • Best Director (Beste Regie)
    • Operation Sugar

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