Diane Kruger
Awards & Honours
25
Awards Won
3
Honours
4
Rankings
6
Covers
2
Records
Diane Kruger's crowning achievement came in 2017 when she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for In the Fade, one of the most prestigious honors in cinema. She followed that with a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, making her one of the few German actresses to win that award. Her performance also swept the European Film Awards, the German Film Awards, and multiple critics' circles, including the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, and Los Angeles Film Critics Association. These wins placed her among the most celebrated actresses of her generation. In 2018, she received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, a national honor recognizing her contributions to German cinema.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande)
Awarded for her contributions to German cinema.
Boulevard der Stars (Walk of Fame, Berlin)
Honored with a plaque on the Boulevard der Stars in Berlin.
Cannes Film Festival Jury Member
Served on the main competition jury for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Rankings & Lists
TIME 100 Most Influential People
Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars
People Magazine's Most Beautiful People
People Magazine's Most Beautiful People
Magazine Covers
Vogue (Germany)
March 2005
The New Face of German Cinema
Harper's Bazaar (US)
November 2009
The Girl Who Would Be Queen
Vanity Fair (Italy)
July 2010
The International Star
GQ (US)
December 2012
The Smartest Woman in the Room
Elle (Germany)
September 2017
Mein Leben, meine Regeln (My Life, My Rules)
Vogue (Germany)
August 2018
Die Schauspielerin (The Actress)
Records & Feats
First German actress to win the Cannes Best Actress award in the 21st century
Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for her role in In the Fade, making her the first German actress to win that prize since 1975.
Won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for a German-language film
Her performance in In the Fade earned her the Golden Globe, a rare achievement for a non-English-language film performance.