Berlinale

The Berlinale, or Berlin International Film Festival,  is the world's leading film festival held in Berlin, Germany.China film wins top Berlin award, BBC News

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.Most frequented film festivals, filmfestivals.com  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 Mädchen1991  Jonathan Demme  The Silence of the LambsRicky 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 Tage2006  Michael Winterbottom The Road To GuantanamoMat 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  Tribute1982  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 ExitViveca Lindfors 1963  Bibi Andersson  Älskarinnan1964  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 biches1971  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 World1986  Charlotte Valandrey  Rouge baiserMarcelia 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 Brasil1999  Maria Schrader Aimée & Jaguar Juliane Köhler2000  Bibiana Beglau  Die Stille nach dem SchußNadja Uhl 2001  Kerry Fox  Intimacy 2002  Halle Barry  Monster's Ball2003  Meryl Streep  The Hours Nicole Kidman Julianne Moore2004  Catalina Sandino Moreno  Maria, llena eres de graciaCharlize 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

 References 

 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.

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