Berlinale

The **Berlinale**, or _Berlin International Film Festival_,  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

- Berlin Life: An introduction to the Berlin Film Festival
- Review of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival
- Signandsight about the director Dieter Kosslick
- Lathrios Film Festival Database  - the Lathrios listing for the Berlin International Film Festival including a film list and analysis for the event.