# 50th Berlin International Film Festival

The 50th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 2000. The festival opened with The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders. Bossa Nova by Bruno Barreto, screened out of competition was the closing film of the festival.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Magnolia directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The retrospective titled Artificial People and dedicated to artificial beings and machines in the films was shown at the festival, screening films like The Golem: How He Came into the World and The Terminator. On its 50th anniversary the premieres of the films in competition at the festival moved from Zoo Palast to Theater am Potsdamer Platz located at Potsdamer Platz.

## Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:

### Main Competition

* Gong Li, Chinese actress - Jury President
* Lissy Bellaiche, Danish member of the Det Danske Filminstitut
* Peter W. Jansen, German scholar and journalist
* Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian filmmaker
* Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
* Jean-Louis Piel, French producer
* Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker and producer
* Maria Schrader, German actress
* Andrzej Wajda, Polish filmmaker

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Any Given Sunday | Any Given Sunday | Oliver Stone | United States |
| The Beach | The Beach | Danny Boyle | United States, United Kingdom |
| Boy's Choir | 独立少年合唱団 | Akira Ogata | Japan |
| Clouds of May | Mayis Sikintisi | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey |
| First Light of Dawn | Prime luci dell'alba | Lucio Gaudino | Italy |
| The Hurricane | The Hurricane | Norman Jewison | United States |
| The Island Tales | 有时跳舞 | Stanley Kwan | Japan, Hong Kong, China |
| The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany |
| Love Me | Love Me | Laetitia Masson | France |
| Magnolia | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| Man on the Moon | Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan |
| The Million Dollar Hotel | The Million Dollar Hotel | Wim Wenders | United States, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Of Woman and Magic | La chambre des magiciennes | Claude Miller | France |
| The Road Home | 我的父亲母亲 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women [de] | Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen | Rudolf Thome | Germany |
| Russkiy bunt | Русский бунт | Aleksandr Proshkin | Russia, France |
| The Sea | El mar | Agustí Villaronga | Spain |
| Signs and Wonders | Signs and Wonders | Jonathan Nossiter | France |
| Sky Hook | Небеска удица | Ljubiša Samardžić | Yugoslavia, Italy |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | United States |
| Water Drops on Burning Rocks | Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes | François Ozon | France |

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
* Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders
* Silver Bear Special Jury Prize: The Road Home by Zhang Yimou
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Miloš Forman for Man on the Moon
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Bibiana Beglau and Nadja Uhl for The Legend of Rita
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Denzel Washington for The Hurricane
* Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution: The Cast of Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women [de]
* Alfred Bauer Prize: Boy's Choir by Akira Ogata

### Honorary Golden Bear

* Jeanne Moreau

### Berlinale Camera

* Kon Ichikawa
* Wolfgang Jacobsen

## Independent Awards
### Blue Angel Award

* The Legend of Rita by Volker Schlöndorff

### FIPRESCI Award

* Of Woman and Magic by Claude Miller