Sandra H\u00fcller has been all over German cinema for years and finally earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination just two years back.<\/p>\n
In 2023, she starred in two Academy Award-winning films \u2014 Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest \u2014 and has now received yet another prestigious honor.<\/p>\n
Her latest movie Rose recently premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where H\u00fcller, 47, just took home the gender-neutral Best Leading Performance award for her acclaimed turn as a 17th-century woman living as a man in director Markus Schleinzer\u2019s historical tragedy, Variety reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was H\u00fcller\u2019s second win at the Berlinale, as she nabbed Best Actress exactly 20 years ago for her feature film debut in Requiem, the magazine also reported on Saturday<\/a>, Feb. 21.<\/p>\n “I liked the idea of portraying someone like this and of the possibility of creating a kind of monument, a testament to her. I also wanted to know whether I could pull it off,” H\u00fcller told The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> in an interview article published Feb. 14. “Because I found it genuinely challenging to play someone who disguises themselves like this and has this life story. It wasn\u2019t something I\u2019d done before.”<\/p>\n The renowned performer \u2014 who has portrayed male characters before \u2014 continued, “In theater, taking on a male role is something different than in film. [On stage], it\u2019s clear I\u2019m a female actor playing the role, and you can approach it on different levels other than the realistic one we\u2019re dealing with in this film. Especially here, where the character\u2019s life is in danger if she\u2019s discovered. That creates a different tension, and it\u2019s a different task [as an actor] both physically and mentally. So this was riskier, and that made it an interesting exploration to find out what\u2019s actually required.”<\/p>\n The Berlinale has been graced with Hollywood star power leading up to Saturday’s awards ceremony. On Valentine<\/a>‘s Day, Dua Lipa<\/a>dazzled on the red carpet<\/a> alongside fianc\u00e9 Callum Turner<\/a> for his festival premiere that night.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Feb 21, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandra H\u00fcller has been all over German cinema for years and finally earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[14215,112,3146,14217,190,14216,14214,11148],"class_list":{"0":"post-20535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-academy-award-winning","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-berlin-film-festival","11":"tag-german-cinema","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-huller","14":"tag-oscar-nomination","15":"tag-sandra-huller"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}