This weekend, she won Best Actress at Cannes for her devastating performance as a woman who loses
everything in a terrorist attack in Fatih Akin's Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade)-- shockingly, Kruger's first German - language production — putting her in prime position for that one Oscar nomination a year that seems to go to a non-American actress (see: Emmanuelle Riva, Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Huppert).