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The German Film Award 2019 (Deutscher Filmpreis 2019) was the 69th annual award ceremony of the German Film Award, also known as Lola. The gala event took place on May 3, 2019 at the Palais am Funkturm in Berlin. The award is with 2.955 million euros the highest-endowed cultural award Germanys and is awarded by the Deutsche Filmakademie (German Film Academy) in 16 regular categories, as well as three special categories.

Director, writer and actress Margarethe von Trotta was awarded the Honorary Award for Outstanding Services to German Film in advance. Director Caroline Link received the Lola for the "largest audience of the year", for All About Me (Der Junge muss an die frische Luft). Christian Becker was honored with the Bernd Eichinger Award for his outstanding work as a film producer.

The gala was broadcast on a time-delayed basis by the television station ZDF on May 3, 2019, starting at 22:55. As hosts, actress and presenter Désirée Nosbusch, and comedian and actor Tedros Teclebrhan led through the event. Screenwriter Elena von Saucken and film director Florian Cossen were responsible for the artistic direction.

Selection process
Three different juries composed mainly of academy members viewed the submissions. The preselection of 13 films for the Best Documentary Film category was announced on December 11, 2018. On January 7, 2019 followed the announcement of six preselected films for the Best Children's Film category, as well as 23 films preselected for the Best Fiction Film category, plus six preselections for individual achievements.

Nominations
The nominations were announced on March 20, 2019, in a press conference from the Deutsche Kinemathek by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, the President of the Deutsche Filmakademie Ulrich Matthes and its chairman Benjamin Herrmann. The film Gundermann was nominated in ten categories, Styx in six, The Golden Glove and All About Me in five categories each.

Special awards
Three categories are not endowed and the recipients are announced ahead of the award ceremony. While the recipients of the Honorary Award and the Bernd Eichinger Award are chosen by juries, the Award for the Largest Audience is automatically given to the majoritarian German film production that had the biggest cinema audience in the preceding year.

Prize money
 more to come 

Winners and nominees


Winners are named first and in boldface. If different, the original German title appears in brackets after the world-wide English title.

Key to the Best Fiction Film category: Golden Lola first prize,  Silver Lola second prize, and  Bronze Lola third prize.