Golden Bear

The **Golden Bear** is the highest prize given at the Berlin International Film Festival (often known as **Berlinale**).

## List of 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|***No official prizes awarded***||||
|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||||
|_La Palabras de Max_|Emilio Martínez Lázaro||||
|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||
|1999|_The Tic Code_|Gary Winick|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_|Mark 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||
|2008|_The Elite Squad_||||
|2009|_The Milk of Sorrow_||||
|2010|_Honey_||||
|2011|||||