 "Downfall" made the shortlist for the best foreign-language film 2005.Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s "The Lives of Others", one of the highlights in the Beta Cinema portfolio, won the Academy Award (Best Foreign Language) 2007.Among others, EOS co-produced the high ranking HBO-Series "Rome", "Dresden – The Inferno", the most successful German mini-series ever which has been sold to 95 countries, "Side Effects" about the thalidomide scandal of the 1950s and 60s and Robert Dornhelm’s adaptation of Tolstoi’s "War and Peace".