In 2007 the family name was all over the news when director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for his spy drama The Lives of Others.
The Lives of Others: Film that could be seen as a counterpoint to Ostalgie (2006)
Days of our Lives | Private Lives | Days of Our Lives | The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Taking Lives | Parallel Lives | Taking Lives (film) | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | The Best Years of Our Lives | Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley | The Murderer Lives at Number 21 | The Lives of Others | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane | Sordid Lives | No One Lives | God Lives Underwater | African American Lives | Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives | Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase | Topless Women Talk About Their Lives | The Three Lives of Thomasina | The Soundtrack of Our Lives | The Sex Lives of Cannibals | On May 8, 2008 the ''Cape Storm'' participated in a ceremony to honour American sailors of the US Navy who lost their lives when the USS Scourge | Nobody Lives Forever (1946 film) | Nobody Lives Forever | Nine Lives | March for Women's Lives | Lives of the Saints | Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects |
The phrase Stasi 2.0 has been used by protestors criticising Barack Obama by likening him to a Stasi figure in The Lives of Others during the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures about the involvement of the National Security Agency in monitoring German communications, including those of chancellor Angela Merkel
The Foundation has also given grants to Tarbut V' Torah, Chapman University, the Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA), the Ocean Institute, El Viento, THINK Together, Orangewood’s Guardian Scholar Program, KOCE, the Discovery Science Center and Hope University, all of which have a mission dedicated to improving the lives of others through education.