# Berlinale

The **Berlinale**, or *Berlin International Film Festival*, Berlinale is the world's leading film festival held in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlinale was first held in 1951, and since 1978 has been held every February. More than 200000 tickets are sold and around 400000 admissions it is the biggest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick.

The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair, is held at the same time as the Berlinale. It is also one of the most important events for the international film industry.

## Judging

An international jury makes sure films from all over the world are chosen for the Berlinale.

Around twenty films competing for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears.

The 61st Berlin International Film Festival will be held 10 to 20 February 2011.

### Golden Bear

* Golden Bear
* 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
* Teddy Award

### Silver Bear-Best Director

| Year | Director | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1956 | Robert Aldrich | *Autumn Leaves* |
| 1957 | Mario Monicelli | *Padri e figli* |
| 1958 | Tadashi Imai | *Jun'ai monogatari* |
| 1959 | Akira Kurosawa | *Kakushi-toride no san-akunin* |
| 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard | *À bout de souffle* |
| 1961 | Bernhard Wicki | *Das Wunder des Malachias* |
| 1962 | Francesco Rosi | *Salvatore Giuliano* |
| 1963 | Nikos Koundouros | *Mikres Afrodites* |
| 1964 | Satyajit Ray | *Mahanagar* |
| 1965 | Satyajit Ray | *Charulata* |
| 1966 | Carlos Saura | *La Caza* |
| 1967 | Zivojin Pavlovic | *Budjenje pacova* |
| 1968 | Carlos Saura | *Peppermint Frappé* |
| 1970 | No official prizes awarded |
| 1972 | Jean-Pierre Blanc | *La Vieille fille* |
| 1975 | Sergei Solovyov | *Sto dney posle detstva* |
| 1976 | Mario Monicelli | *Caro Michele* |
| 1977 | Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón | *Camada Negra* |
| 1978 | Georgi Djulgerov | *Advantage* |
| 1979 | Astrid Henning-Jensen | *Vinterborn* |
| 1980 | István Szabó | *Bizalom* |
| 1982 | Mario Monicelli | *Il Marchese del Grillo* |
| 1983 | Eric Rohmer | *Pauline á la Plage* |
| 1984 | Ettore Scola | *Le Bal* |
| 1985 | Robert Benton | *Places of the Heart* |
| 1986 | Georgi Schengelaja | *Achalgasrda kompositoris mogsauroba* |
| 1987 | Oliver Stone | *Platoon* |
| 1988 | Norman Jewison | *Moonstruck* |
| 1989 | Dusan Hanák | *Ja milujem, ty milujes* |
| 1990 | Michael Verhoeven | *Das schreckliche Mädchen* |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | *The Silence of the Lambs* |
| Ricky Tognazzi | *Ultrá* |
| 1992 | Jan Troell | *Il Capitano* |
| 1993 | Andrew Birkin | *The Cement Garden* |
| 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | *Trzy kolory: bialy* |
| 1995 | Richard Linklater | *Before Sunrise* |
| 1996 | Yim Ho | *Tai yang you er* |
| Richard Loncraine | *Richard III* |
| 1997 | Eric Heumann | *Port Djema* |
| 1998 | Neil Jordan | *The Butcher Boy* |
| 1999 | Stephen Frears | *The Hi-Lo Country* |
| 2000 | Miloš Forman | *Man on the Moon* |
| 2001 | Lin Cheng-Sheng | *Ai ni ai wo* |
| 2002 | Otar Iosseliani | *Lundi Matin* |
| 2003 | Patrice Chéreau | *Son frère* |
| 2004 | Kim Ki-Duck | *Samaria* |
| 2005 | Marc Rothemund | *Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage* |
| 2006 | Michael Winterbottom | *The Road To Guantanamo* |
| Mat Whitecross |
| 2007 | Joseph Cedar | *Beaufort* |
| 2008 | Paul Thomas Andersoen | *There Will Be blood* |
| 2009 | Asghar Farhadi | *About Elly* |
| 2010 | Roman Polanski | *The Ghost Writer* |
| 2011 |  |  |

### Silver Bear-Best Actor

| Year | Actor | Movie |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1956 | Burt Lancaster | *Trapeze* |
| 1957 | Pedro Infante | *Tizoc* |
| 1958 | Sidney Poitier | *The Defiant Ones* |
| 1959 | Jean Gabin | *Archimède le clochard* |
| 1960 | Fredric March | *Inherit The Wind* |
| 1961 | Peter Finch | *No Love For Johnnie* |
| 1962 | James Stewart | *Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation* |
| 1963 | Sidney Poitier | *Lilies of the Field* |
| 1964 | Rod Steiger | *The Pawnbroker* |
| 1965 | Lee Marvin | *Cat Ballou* |
| 1966 | Jean-Pierre Léaud | *Masculin, féminin* |
| 1967 | Michel Simon | *Le vieil homme et l'enfant* |
| 1968 | Jean-Louis Trintignant | *L'homme qui ment* |
| 1970 | No official prizes awarded |
| 1971 | Jean Gabin | *Le Chat* |
| 1972 | Alberto Sordi | *Detenuto in attesa di giudizio* |
| 1975 | Vlastimil Brodský | *Jakob, der Lügner* |
| 1976 | Gerhard Olschewski | *Verlorenes Leben* |
| 1977 | Fernando Fernán Gómez | *El Anacoreta* |
| 1978 | Craig Russell | *Outrageous!* |
| 1979 | Michele Placido | *Ernesto* |
| 1980 | Andrzej Seweryn | *Dyrygent* |
| 1981 | Anatoli Solonitsyn | *Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo* |
| Jack Lemmon | *Tribute* |
| 1982 | Stellan Skarsgård | *Den Enfaldige mördaren* |
| Michel Piccoli | *Une étrange affaire* |
| 1983 | Bruce Dern | *That Championship Season* |
| 1984 | Albert Finney | *The Dresser* |
| 1985 | Fernando Fernán Gómez | *Stico* |
| 1986 | Tuncel Kurtiz | *Hiuch HaGdi* |
| 1987 | Gian Maria Volontè | *Il Caso Moro* |
| 1988 | Jörg Pose and Manfred Möck | *Einer trage des anderen Last* |
| 1989 | Gene Hackman | *Mississippi Burning* |
| 1990 | Iain Glen | *Silent Scream* |
| 1991 | Maynard Eziashi | *Mister Johnson* |
| 1992 | Armin Mueller-Stahl | *Utz* |
| 1993 | Denzel Washington | *Malcolm X* |
| 1994 | Tom Hanks | *Philadelphia* |
| 1995 | Paul Newman | *Nobody's Fool* |
| 1996 | Sean Penn | *Dead Man Walking* |
| 1997 | Leonardo DiCaprio | *Romeo + Juliet* |
| 1998 | Samuel L. Jackson | *Jackie Brown* |
| 1999 | Michael Gwisdek | *Nachtgestalten* |
| 2000 | Denzel Washington | *The Hurricane* |
| 2001 | Benicio Del Toro | *Traffic* |
| 2002 | Jacques Gamblin | *Laissez-passer* |
| 2003 | Sam Rockwell | *Confessions of a Dangerous Mind* |
| 2004 | Daniel Hendler | *El Abrazo partido* |
| 2005 | Lou Taylor Pucci | *Thumbsucker* |
| 2006 | Moritz Bleibtreu | *Elementarteilchen* |
| 2007 | Julio Chávez | *El Otro* |
| 2008 | Reza Najie | *The Song of Sparrows* |
| 2009 | Sotigui Kouyate | *London River* |
| 2010 | Grigori Dobrygin | *How I Ended This Summer* |
| Sergei Puskepalis |
| 2011 |  |  |

### Silver Bear-Best Actress

| Year | Actress | Film |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1952 | Elsa Martinelli | *Donatella* |
| 1957 | Yvonne Mitchell | *Woman In A Dressing Gown* |
| 1958 | Anna Magnani | *Wild is the Wind* |
| 1959 | Shirley MacLaine | *Ask Any Girl* |
| 1960 | Juliette Mayniel | *Kirmes* |
| 1961 | Anna Karina | *Une femme est une femme* |
| 1962 | Rita Gam | *No Exit* |
| Viveca Lindfors |
| 1963 | Bibi Andersson | *Älskarinnan* |
| 1964 | Sachiko Hidari | *Nippon Konchuki* |
| *Kanajo to kare* |
| 1965 | Madhur Jaffrey | *Shakespeare-Wallah* |
| 1966 | Lola Albright | *Lord Love a Duck* |
| 1967 | Edith Evans | *The Whisperers* |
| 1968 | Stephane Audran | *Les biches* |
| 1971 | Simone Signoret | *Le Chat* |
| Shirley MacLaine | *Desperate Characters* |
| 1972 | Elizabeth Taylor | *Hammersmith Is Out* |
| 1975 | Kinuyo Tanaka | *Sandakan hachibanshokan, bohk yo* |
| 1976 | Jadwiga Baranska | *Noce i dnie* |
| 1977 | Lily Tomlin | *The Late Show* |
| 1978 | Gena Rowlands | *Opening Night* |
| 1979 | Hanna Schygulla | *Die Ehe der Maria Braun* |
| 1980 | Renate Krössner | *Solo Sunny* |
| 1981 | Barbara Grabowska | *Barbara Grabowska Goraczka* |
| 1982 | Katrin Sass | *Bürgschaft für ein Jahr* |
| 1983 | Jewgenija Gluschenko | *Wljubljon po sobstvennomu zhelaniju* |
| 1984 | Inna Tschurikova | *Woenno-polewoj roman* |
| 1985 | Jo Kennedy | *Wrong World* |
| 1986 | Charlotte Valandrey | *Rouge baiser* |
| Marcelia Cartaxo | *A hora da estrela* |
| 1987 | Ana Beatriz Nogueira | *Vera* |
| 1988 | Holly Hunter | *Broadcast News* |
| 1989 | Isabelle Adjani | *Camille Claudel* |
| 1991 | Victoria Abril | *Amantes* |
| 1992 | Maggie Cheung | *Ruan ling yu* |
| 1993 | Michelle Pfeiffer | *Love Field* |
| 1994 | Crissy Rock | *Ladybird, Ladybird* |
| 1995 | Josephine Siao | *Xiatian De Xue* |
| 1996 | Anouk Grinberg | *Mon homme* |
| 1997 | Juliette Binoche | *The English Patient* |
| 1998 | Fernanda Montenegro | *Central do Brasil* |
| 1999 | Maria Schrader | *Aimée & Jaguar* |
| Juliane Köhler |
| 2000 | Bibiana Beglau | *Die Stille nach dem Schuß* |
| Nadja Uhl |
| 2001 | Kerry Fox | *Intimacy* |
| 2002 | Halle Barry | *Monster's Ball* |
| 2003 | Meryl Streep | *The Hours* |
| Nicole Kidman |
| Julianne Moore |
| 2004 | Catalina Sandino Moreno | *Maria, llena eres de gracia* |
| Charlize Theron | *Monster* |
| 2005 | Julia Jentsch | *Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage* |
| 2006 | Sandra Hüller | *Requiem* |
| 2007 | Nina Hoss | *Sandra Hüller* |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | *Happy-Go-Lucky* |
| 2009 | Birgit Minichmayr  | *Everyone Else* |
| 2010 | Shinobu Terajima  | *Caterpillar* |
| 2011 |  |  |

## Related pages

* Academy Awards

## Other websites

* Official website
* Berlinale at the Internet Movie Database
* Berlin Life: An introduction to the Berlin Film Festival
* Review of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival Archived 2006-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
* Signandsight about the director Dieter Kosslick
* Lathrios Film Festival Database Archived 2008-01-18 at the Wayback Machine - the Lathrios listing for the Berlin International Film Festival including a film list and analysis for the event.