Accreditation Form

34th European Film Awards
Berlin

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1. Personal data

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2. Represented media outlet

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I hereby confirm that the representative has been commissioned to report from the European Film Awards

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3. Type of accreditation

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I agree to the following Terms and Conditions of the media accreditation procedure of the European Film Academy for the European Film Awards

By submitting the accreditation form, the media representative accepts and agrees to the following:

The entered and transmitted personal data will be stored in the European Film Academy database and used to contact you in connection with the accreditation process and for information purposes concerning the European Film Awards.

Representative’s name, media outlet and country may be passed on to other accredited media representatives, to our partners, sponsors and funding institutions, as well as to the agents of the nominees and winners of the European Film Awards. Furthermore, this information may be stored in order to fulfill our reporting obligations to the funding institutions and for other statistical evaluation.

Other personal data will be deleted as soon as the purpose for retaining such data ceases to apply, i.e. four weeks after the European Film Awards took place. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, data may be stored if required by Union of Member State law to which we are subject.

Data will also be blocked or deleted if a retention period prescribed by laws and regulations expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion of fulfillment of a contract.

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Participating in the European Film Awards implies the unconditional acceptance of the above conditions.

The data protection officer of European Film Academy e.V. is Rainer Pyls. He may be contacted using the contact details provided above as well as at privacy@europeanfilmacademy.org. For further information please see our Privacy Policy.

10 Apr 2026

Mourning Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf in LA MALA ORDINA by Fernando Di Leo

Iconic German Actor Dies at the Age of 95

Born in 1930 in Zürich to a German mother and an Italian father, Mario Adorf became one of the most prolific contemporary German actors.

His breakthrough came in 1957 with THE DEVIL STRIKES AT NIGHT by Robert Siodmak. The film was nominated for the Oscars and won a German Film Award. For his performance as an alleged mass murderer, Mario Adorf won Best Performance by a Young Actor and the German Film Critics Award.

In a truly international career that spanned over more than 70 years and included over 200 films, he worked with

Dario Argento (THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, 1970),
Claude Chabrol (QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY, 1990),
Luigi Comencini (ON THE TIGER’S BACK, 1961),
Michel Deville (TENDER SHARKS, 1967),
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (LOLA, 1981),
Mikhaïl Kalatozov (THE RED TENT, 1969),
Sam Peckinpah (MAJOR DUNDEE, 1965),
Dino Risi (TREASURE OF SAN GENNARO, 1966),
Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta (THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM, 1975)
Billy Wilder (FEDORA, 1978)

and many more.

As one of Germany’s leading film and television stars, Mario Adorf was nominated for the German Film Awards for his performance in THE GENTLEMEN by Franz Seitz, Rolf Thiele & Alfred Weidenmann (1965), DIE REISE NACH WIEN (literally “The Journey to Vienna”) by Edgar Reitz (1974) and THE TIN DRUM by Volker Schlöndorff (1979). He received the German Film Award in Gold in 1992 for PIZZA COLONIA by Klaus Emmerich and was nominated at the European Film Awards for ROSSINI (European Actor 1997).

To honour his achievements, Mario Adorf received the prestigious Adolf Grimme Award in Gold in 1994, the honorary Bavarian Film Award 2001, honorary German Film Award 2004 and a Leopard Career Award in Locarno 2016.

Mario Adorf died on 8 April 2026 in Paris. We will miss him.