Credits

Title: Half Nelson
Original Title: Half Nelson
Language versions: German version
Country: USA
Year: 2006
Length: 102 min
Color: Color
Director: Ryan Fleck
Screenplay: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Cinematography: Andrij Parekh
Editing: Anna Boden
Sound Mix: Judy Karp
Music: Broken Social Scene
Featuring: Monique Curnen, Anthony Mackie, Ryan Gosling, Karen Chilton, Tina Holmes, Collins Pennie, Deborah Rush, Jay O. Sanders, Bryce Silver, Sebastian Sozzi, Nicole Vicius, Tristan Wilds
Production: Hunting Lane Films, Journeyman Pictures, Silverwood Films, Original Media, Tracton Media, Verisimilitude, Anna Boden, Lynette Howell, Rosanne Korenberg, Alex Orlovsky, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker
Festivals: 2006: Sundance Film Festival (USA); New Directors/New Films (USA); Independent Film Festival of Boston (USA); Locarno Film Festival (CH); Deauville Film Festival (F);Vienna International Film Festival (A); 2007: Glasgow Film Festival (UK); Las Palmas Film Festival (E); Midnight Sun Film Festival (FI); Espoo Film Festival (FI); Film by the Sea Film Festival (NL); Titanic International Filmpresence Festival (HU)

Awards: 2007: Oscar Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Oscar-Nomination, Academy Awards (USA); Best Independent Feature Film Casting, ARTIOS Award, Casting Society of America (USA); Best Female Lead/Best Male Lead, Independent Spirit Awards (USA); Best Actor/ SIGNIS Award, Las Palmas Film Festival (E); Best Actor/ Best Supporting Actress, National Society of Film Critics Awards (USA); 2006: Best New Filmmaker/Best Supporting Actress, BSFC Award, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards (USA); Russell Smith Award, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards (USA); Jury Special Prize/ Revelations Prize, Deauville Film Festival (F); Best Film/ Breakthrough Director Award/ Breakthrough Award, Gotham Independent Film Awards (USA); Special Prize of the Jury/ Youth Jury Award, Locarno International Film Festival (CH); Screenwriting Award, Nantucket Film Festival (USA); Best Breakthrough Performance – Male, NBR Award, National Board of Review (USA); Best First Film, NYFCC Award, New York Film Critics Circle Awards (USA); Best Director, Jury Award, Philadelphia Film Festival (USA); Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize, San Francisco International Film Festival (USA); Best Actor, Golden Space Needle Award, Seattle International Film Festival (USA); Best Actor Award, Stockholm Film Festival (SE)

Age Recommendation: 12