Retrospective
»The best about Oldenburg are the personal encounters with the filmmakers, especially those who are honored with retrospectives and tributes. Throughout the years the Festival has brought together an impressive gallery of mavericks. Filmmakers, whose body of work could be discovered in context, artists such as Ken Russell and Andrzej Zulawski, the former Kubrick producer James B. Harris or Jim McBride, one of the pioneers of New Hollywood Cinema.«
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2022 Peter and John Hyams
2021 Ovidio G. Assonitis
2020 William Friedkin
2019 Burkhard Driest
2018 Bruce Robinson
2017 Edward R. Pressman
2016 Christoph Honoré
2015 George Armitage
2014 Philippe Mora
2013 Mania Akbari
2012 Phedon Papamichael
2011 Ted Kotcheff
2010 Radley Metzger
2009 Bruno Barreto
2008 James Toback
2007 Abel Ferrara
2006 Jerry Schatzberg
2005 Ken Russell
2004 Andrzej Zulawski
2003 Philippe de Broca
2002 Bernard Rose
2001 Jim McBride
2000 William Wellman
1999 Harry Kümel
1998 Roberto Faenza
1997 Tim Hunter
1996 James B. Harris
1995 Frank Oz
1994 Alex Cox
Tribute
»The tradition of dedicating retrospectives and tributes to eclectic filmmakers – often turning out to be true discoveries – it is a heritage of the festival.«
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2023 Isild Le Besco
2023 Jen Gatien
2022 Andrea Rau
2021 Mattie Do
2019 Burkhard Driest
2019 Seymour Cassel
2018 Keith Carradine
2017 Lou Diamond Phillips
2016 Nicolas Cage
2016 Amanda Plummer
2015 Joanna Cassidy
2013 Bobcat Goldthwait
2011 Roger Fritz
2010 Timothy Bottoms
2009 David Siegel und Scott McGehee
2008 Michael Wadleigh
2008 Marius Müller Westernhagen
2007 Stacy Keach
2006 Peter Fleischmann
2005 Luke und Andrew Wilson
2004 Tim Blake Nelson
2003 Larry Clark
2002 Edouard Niermans
2001 Richard Stanley
2001 Ben Gazzara
2000 Stacy Cochran
1999 Asia Argento
1998 Seymour Cassel
1997 Iciar Bollain
1996 James B. Harris
1995 Katt Shea
1994 Nancy Savoca
Star of Excellence
The revealing of the Star on the OLB Walk of Fame has become one of the festival's highlights. Long standing main sponsor OLB has been building Oldenburg's Star Promenade, and every year the entrance to the OLB cinema gains one further attraction.
2019 Amanda Plummer
2018 Keith Carradine
2017 Moritz Bleibtreu
2016 Nicolas Cage
2015 Joanna Cassidy
2014 Sean Young
2013 Veronica Ferres
2012 Mira Sorvino
2011 Matthew Modine
2010 Deborah Kara Unger
2009 Peter Lohmeyer
2008 Seymour Cassel
2007 Stacy Keach