BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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The 'Berlin International Film Festival', also called the '""' (in reference to the Biennale at Venice), ranks alongside Venice and Cannes as Europe's leading film festival.^[1] It is the film festival with most visitors (admissions) worldwide.^[2] It is held annually in February (in 2007 from 8 February until 18 February) and has been held since 1951. The jury places special emphasis on representing films from all over the world. The awards are called the Golden and Silver Bears (the Bear is the symbol of Berlin).
The premieres are held in the Berlinale Palast located at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz 1.

Contents

Awards

Golden Bear

Silver Bear

Others

Golden Bear winners

See also

References

External links

Awards

Golden Bear

★ Best Motion Picture

★ Lifetime Achievement ("Honorary Golden Bear")

Silver Bear

★ Best Director

★ Best Actor

★ Best Actress

★ Best Music

★ Extraordinary achievement by a single artist

★ Grand Prize of the Jury (Short film award)

Others

★ Panorama Publikumspreis, the Audience Award

★ Berlinale Camera, a special award for services to the Festival

★ A Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the 14plus Competition[2]

★ Teddy Award

Golden Bear winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1952	''Hon dansade en sommar''	Arne Mattsson	Sweden
1953	''The Wages of Fear''	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France/Italy
1954	''Hobson's Choice''	David Lean	United Kingdom
1955	''Die Ratten''	Robert Siodmak	Federal Republic of Germany
1956	''Invitation To The Dance''	Gene Kelly	United States
1957	''12 Angry Men''	Sidney Lumet	United States
1958	''Wild Strawberries''	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1959	''Les Cousins''	Claude Chabrol	France
1960	''El Lazarillo de Tormes''	César Ardavin	Spain
1961	''La notte''	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1962	''A Kind of Loving''	John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
1963	''Il Diavolo''	Gian Luigi Polidoro	Italy
1964	''Susuz Yaz''	Ismail Metin Karabey	Turkey
1965	''Alphaville''	Jean-Luc Godard	France/Italy
1966	''Cul-de-Sac''	Roman Polanski	United Kingdom
1967	''Le départ''	Jerzy Skolimowski	Belgium
1968	''Ole dole doff''	Jan Troell	Sweden
1969	''Rani Radovi''	Želimir Žilnik	Yugoslavia
1970	N/A	N/A	N/A
1971	''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis''	Vittorio De Sica	Italy/W. Germany
1972	''The Canterbury Tales''	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
1973	''Distant Thunder''	Satyajit Ray	India
1974	''The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz''	Ted Kotcheff	Canada
1975	''Adoption''	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
1976	''Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson''	Robert Altman	United States
1977	''The Ascent''	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet Union
1978	''Las Truchas''	José Luis García Sánchez	Spain
	''Ascensor''	Tomas Munoz	Spain
	''La Palabras de Max''	Emilio Martínez Lázaro	Spain
1979	''David''	Peter Lilienthal	West Germany
1980	''Heartland''	Richard Pearce	United States
	''Palermo or Wolfsburg''	Werner Schroeter	West Germany
1981	''Deprisa, Deprisa''	Carlos Saura	Spain (co-production with France)
1982	''Veronika Voss''	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
1983	''Ascendancy''	Edward Bennett	United Kingdom
	''The Beehive''	Mario Camus	Spain
1984	''Love Streams''	John Cassavetes	United States
1985	''Die Frau und der Fremde''	Rainer Simon	East Germany
	''Wetherby''	David Hare	United Kingdom
1986	''Stammheim''	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
1987	''The Theme''	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1988	''Red Sorghum''	Zhang Yimou	China
1989	''Rain Man''	Barry Levinson	United States
1990	''Music Box''	Costa-Gavras	United States
	''Larks on a String''	Jiri Menzel	Czechoslovakia
1991	''La Casa del sorriso''	Marco Ferreri	Italy
1992	''Grand Canyon''	Lawrence Kasdan	United States
1993	''Woman Sesame Oil Maker''	Xie Fei	China
	''The Wedding Banquet''	Ang Lee	Taiwan/United States
1994	''In the Name of the Father''	Jim Sheridan	UK/Ireland
1995	''L'Appât''	Bertrand Tavernier	France
1996	''Sense and Sensibility''	Ang Lee	United States/United Kingdom
1997	''The People vs. Larry Flynt''	Miloš Forman	United States
1998	''Central Station''	Walter Salles	Brazil (co-produced with France)
1999	''The Thin Red Line''	Terrence Malick	United States
2000	''Magnolia''	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
2001	''Intimacy''	Patrice Chéreau	UK (co-produced with France, Germany and Spain)
2002	''Spirited Away''	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
	''Bloody Sunday''	Paul Greengrass	UK/Ireland
2003	''In This World''	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
2004	''Head-On''	Fatih Akin	Germany/Turkey
2005	''U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha''	Marc Dornford-May	South Africa
2006	''Grbavica''	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (co-produced with Austria, Germany and Croatia)
2007	''Tuya's Marriage''	Wang Quan'an	China

See also

★ Academy Awards

★ List of films featuring Berlin

References

1. [1]
2. http://www.filmfestivals.com/htm/recap2000/statistics.html

External links

★ Official website

★

★ Berlin Life: An introduction to the Berlin Film Festival

★ Review of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival

★ Signandsight about the director Dieter Kosslick