Berlin Film Festival Winners 2015: Full List From Awards Ceremony | Deadline Darren Aronofsky UPDATE, 12 PM PT: In a win for freedom of speech tonight, Iranian director Jafar Panahi was awarded Berlin’s Golden Bear for his latest movie, Taxi — despite being banned from filmmaking in his home country and not being allowed to travel abroad. Taxi was well-received by critics and buyers (Celluloid Dreams has international rights) during the festival. In the film, Panahi set a camera on the dashboard of a yellow cab as it drives through Tehran. He plays the cabbie who interviews the diverse characters that make up his fares. 'Django' To Open Berlin Film Festival; Jazz Legend Drama Will Run In Competition Panahi previously won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay with 2013’s Closed Curtain, which resulted in its co-director and co-star, Kambozia Partovi — who was present in Berlin that year to accept the prize — having his passport confiscated by the Iranian authorities. Tonight, Panahi’s wife and niece were on hand with the little girl ascending the stage to accept the prize.

She was too emotional to speak, she said, and was swiftly comforted by jury members including Matthew Weiner and Audrey Tautou. Panahi has continued to work, saying in an earlier statement to the festival, “I’m a filmmaker. I can’t do anything else but make films. Cinema is my expression and the meaning of my life. Nothing can prevent me from making films. Because when I’m pushed into the furthest corners I connect with my inner self. And in such private spaces, despite all limitations, the necessity to create becomes even more of an urge. Cinema as an Art becomes my main preoccupation. That is the reason why I have to continue making films under any circumstances to pay my respects and feel alive.” In other prizes, Pablo Larrain’s dark, and darkly comic, El Club , a treatise on the Catholic church through the prism of a group of exiled priests, was the Grand Jury Prize winner. The acting awards went to Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay for their performances in Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years . The pair play a couple preparing for their 45th wedding anniversary who are rocked by a secret from the past.

Rampling noted that she first learned of Berlin when her father won a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. “As a very competitive young woman, I wanted to achieve something myself in Berlin and perhaps at one stage take the baton from him. Well, I think this bear has doen the trick.” Sundance Selects recently picked up 45 Years. Darren Aronofsky ’s jury also doled out double prizes in two categories: Best Director and Outstanding Artistic Contribution. In the former, Romania’s Radu Jude and Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska shared the prize for Aferim! and Body, respectively. Presenting the Artistic Contribution Silver Bears, Aronofsky said of the first winner, Victoria cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grovelen, “This film rocked my world.” Of Under Electric Clouds, whose joint DPs are Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin, Aronofsky said, “The images will stay with everyone for a long time.” See below for the full list of winners.

PREVIOUS, 10:11 AM PT: Darren Aronofsky and his jury are set to hand out the Golden and Silver Bears for the main competition at the 65th Berlin Film Festival this evening at the Berlinale Palast. After a strong 2014 edition that thrust The Grand Budapest Hotel and Boyhood onto the world stage, this year proved something of a mixed bag. Among the favorites are Pablo Larrain’s exiled priests tale El Club; Charlotte Rampling drama 45 Years, which Sundance Selects acquired at the end of the week; Patricio Guzman’s documentary The Pearl Button; Jayro Bustamante’s Guatemalan debut feature Ixcanul; and banned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s Taxi. But there were also titles that kicked off out of competition and left festgoers wishing they had competed, including Bill Condon’s Mr Holmes and Anton Corbijn’s Life. The big commercial pics that also had out of competition slots here were Cinderella, and a little confection called Fifty Shades Of Grey.

See below for prizes as they are announced, as well as awards from the parallel sections: Golden Bear for Best Film Taxi, Jafar Panahi Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize Pablo Larrain, El Club Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives Ixcanul, dir: Jayro Bustamante Silver Bear for Best Director (tie) Radu Jude, Aferim!

Silver Bear for Best Actress Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years Silver Bear for Best Actor Tom Courtenay, 45 Years Silver Bear for Best Script Patricio Guzman, The Pearl Button Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the categories camera, editing, music score, costumes or set design (Tie) Sturla Brandth Grovlen, Cinematographer: Victoria Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin, Cinematographers: Under Electric Clouds Best First Feature Award for the Best Debut Film 600 Miles, dir: Gabriel Ripstein Audi Short Film Award Planet Sigma, dir: Momoko Seto Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) Bad At dancing, dir: Joanna arnow Golden Bear for Best Short Film Hosanna, dir: Na Young-kil Panorama Audience Award – Fiction Film 2015 Que Horas Ela Volta?

(The Second Mother), dir: Anna Muylaert, Brazil 2nd Place: Stories Of Our Lives, dir: Jum Chuchu, Kenya 3rd Place: Härte (Tough Love), dir: Rosa von Praunheim, Germany Panorama Audience Award – Documentary Film 2015 Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, dirs: Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy, UK 2nd Place: The Yes Men Are Revolting, dirs: Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, US/GermanyFrance/Denmark/Netherlands 3rd Place: Iraqi Odyssey, dir: Samir, Switzerland/Germany/Iraq/UAE Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section Out Of Nature, dir: Ole Giæver Crystal Bears in Generation 14plus Best Film Flocken (Flocking), dir: Beata Gårdeler, Sweden Special Mention: Prins (Prince), dir: Sam de Jong, Netherlands Short Film A Confession, dir: Petros Silvestros, UK Special Mention: Nelly, dir: Chris Raiber, Austria Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for best

 feature The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, dir: Marielle Heller, U.S.

Special Mention: Nena, dir: Saskia Diesing, Netherlands/Germany Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for best short film Coach, dir: Ben Adler, France Special Mention: Tuolla Puolen (Reunion), dirs: Iddo Soskolne and Janne Reinikainen, Finland Crystal Bears and Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Awards in Generation Kplus Best Film Min lilla syster (My Skinny Sister), dir: Sanna Lenken, Sweden/Germany Special Mention: Dhanak (Rainbow), dir: Nagesh Kukunoor, India Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film Hadiatt Abi (Gift Of My Father), dir: Salam Salman, Iraq/Great Britain/Netherlands/U.S.

Special Mention: The Tie, dir: An Vrombaut, Belgium Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury for the best feature film Dhanak (Rainbow), dir: Nagesh Kukunoor, India Special Mention: Min lilla Syster (My Skinny Sister), dir: Sanna Lenken, Sweden/Germany Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury for best short film Giovanni En Het Waterballet (Giovanni And The Water Ballet), dir: Astrid Bussink, Netherlands Special Mention: Agnes, dir: Anja Lind, Sweden | Berlinale | Festival | Awards & Juries | International Jury International Jury Prizes of the International Jury In the workshop The manufacturing of the Bears - a visit to the Noack foundry Jury President of the Berlinale 2017: Paul Verhoeven The Dutch director and screenwriter Paul Verhoeven will serve as jury president of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. “With Paul Verhoeven as jury president, we have a filmmaker who has worked in a variety of genres in Europe and Hollywood.

His creative, multifaceted boldness and his willingness to experiment are reflected in the spectrum of his works,” says Dieter Kosslick, director of the Berlinale. The Berlinale welcomed the acclaimed filmmaker in 2013 at the Berlinale Talent Campus (today’s Berlinale Talents). At the panel “Follow Your Instincts: Filmmaking According to Paul Verhoeven” he gave insight into his work methods and his perspective on production landscapes in the US and Europe. Follow Your Instincts: on courage, Sharon Stone and the staging of sex scenes You can find the complete conversation here . Following studies in mathematics and physics, Paul Verhoeven turned his attention towards film in the mid-1960s, and began his directing career in 1969 with the successful Dutch television series Floris. After his feature film debut Business is Business in 1971, about two prostitutes who dream of a conventional middle-class life, came the erotic thriller Turkish Delight in 1973, a big hit in the Netherlands that also garnered a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1974 Academy Awards.

Following his international breakthrough Soldier of Orange (1977) - which was nominated for a Golden Globe - and The Fourth Man (1983), Paul Verhoeven moved to Hollywood to focus on an evolution of style in his work. Large productions featuring lots of action and special effects, like RoboCop (1987), and especially Total Recall (1990), were big box-office hits that revolutionized the science fiction film genre while maintaining credibility as author’s films. The provocative, erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992) saw Paul Verhoeven return to themes prevalent in his Dutch works. Basic Instinct shot Sharon Stone to stardom, and was nominated for two Academy Awards. In 1997 and 2000, he once again focused on science fiction with Starship Troopers and Hollow Man. Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2013 After nearly 20 years in Hollywood, Paul Verhoeven returned to the Netherlands in 2006 to film Black Book (2006), based on the story of a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II.

Starting in 2007, he moved his attention to writing. He returned to the cinema in 2016, celebrating his comeback with the French-German production Elle. In Elle, Paul Verhoeven continues his focus on familiar themes in a surprising new way. Isabelle Huppert plays a woman whose forays through the depths of sado-masochism help her transcend childhood trauma. Elle, set to open in German cinemas on February 2, 2017, is nominated for the European Film Awards in three categories, as well as in two categories for the US Critics’ Choice Awards. The Awards The most important awards at the Berlinale are the Golden Bear and the Silver Bears. They are presented by the International Jury to films in the Competition and belong to the most renowned awards in the international film industry.

The International Jury is selected every year by the Festival Director and presents the following awards: Golden Bear for Best Film (awarded to the film’s producer) Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives Silver Bear for Best Director Silver Bear for Best Actress Silver Bear for Best Actor Silver Bear for Best Screenplay Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the categories camera, editing, music score, costume or set design In recent years, Festival Director Dieter Kosslick has invited internationally recognised personalities from the world of film such as James Schamus, Wong Kar Wai, Mike Leigh, Isabella Rossellini, Werner Herzog, Tilda Swinton, Darren Aronofsky and Meryl Streep to head the seven-member jury. Jury members include directors, actresses and actors as well as producers, but also writers and artists. One of the festive highpoints of every Berlinale is the presentation of the Bears on the penultimate day of the festival. The Bears The Bear statues are based on a design by sculptress Renée Sintenis (1888-1965). Since the beginning of the festival, they have been produced by the Noack sculpture foundry in Berlin.

The German capital’s trademark mascot also graces the Berlinale logo. Go To: Berlin film festival awards top prize to refugee crisis documentary Fire at Sea | Film | The Guardian Berlin film festival 2016 Berlin film festival awards top prize to refugee crisis documentary Fire at Sea Jury president Meryl Streep praises Gianfranco Rosi’s film on Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where thousands of asylum seekers have arrived The director of Fire at Sea, Gianfranco Rosi, holds his Golden Bear for best film next to the US actor and jury president of the Berlin film festival, Meryl Streep/ Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images Agence France-Presse Saturday 20 February 2016 22.46 EST Last modified on Friday 13 January 2017 10.06 EST Close This article is 11 months old Fire at Sea, a harrowing documentary about Europe’s refugee crisis , has clinched the Golden Bear top prize from a jury led by Meryl Streep at the Berlin film festival.

The movie by Italian director Gianfranco Rosi offers an unflinching look at life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where thousands of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East have arrived trying to reach the European Union over the last two decades. Thousands more have perished on the dangerous journey in rickety, overcrowded boats. Fire at Sea review – a powerful study of migrant crisis Read more The Eritrean-born Rosi, who spent several months on Italy’s Lampedusa making the film, dedicated the prize to its residents “who open their hearts to other peoples”. “I hope to bring awareness,” he said as he accepted the trophy from Streep. “It is not acceptable that people die crossing the sea trying to escape from tragedies.” The picture is told through the eyes of a 12-year-old local boy, Samuele Pucillo, and a doctor, Pietro Bartolo, who has been tending to the dehydrated, malnourished and traumatised new arrivals for a quarter of a century. In chilling footage, Rosi accompanied coastguard rescue missions answering the SOS calls of people on boats, most of them arriving from Libya.

Many of the vessels are packed with corpses of people who suffocated from diesel fumes. Three-time Oscar winner Streep said her seven-member jury was “swept away” by Fire at Sea , which she called “urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking”. “It’s a daring hybrid of captured footage and deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do,” she said. “It demands its place in front of our eyes and compels our engagement and action.” The Golden Bear for Fire at Sea comes after the Cannes film festival in May 2015 awarded its Palme d’Or to Dheepan , a drama about Sri Lankan refugees living on the violent outskirts of Paris. Rosi, who captured the Venice film festival’s 2013 Golden Lion for his film Sacro GRA, said when his film premiered that Europe’s refugee crisis marked one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes since the Holocaust. He told reporters after the awards ceremony late on Saturday that he would aim to show the film to the people of Lampedusa in an open-air screening in the spring.

Pinterest The festival, now in its 66th year, had placed a special spotlight on the refugee issue after Germany let in more than 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015. Donation boxes to support charities helping torture survivors were placed at cinema venues and festival internships and free tickets were reserved for migrants. George Clooney, whose Hail, Caesar! opened the event, met with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, “to talk about how best we can help”. In other prizes, France’s Mia Hansen-Love won the Silver Bear for best director for her drama Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert as a philosophy teacher whose marriage falls apart just as her elderly mother dies. Tunisia’s Majd Mastoura won the Silver Bear for best actor for his role in Hedi, a love story set in the aftermath of the Arab spring, which also won best debut feature. “I give this gift to the great Tunisian people, all the martyrs of the revolution, everyone who contributed to the revolution,” he said.

“I hope we will continue on being free, being happy, producing good art.” Refugee crisis brought into sharp focus at Berlin film festival Read more The Silver Bear for best actress went to Denmark’s Trine Dyrholm for her role as a wronged wife in Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, a semi-autobiographical take on his 1970s childhood. The Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic took the runner-up Grand Jury Prize among 18 contenders for Death in Sarajevo about the corrosive legacy of the 1990s Balkan wars. A more than eight-hour-long historical epic by the Filipino director Lav Diaz, A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, claimed the Alfred Bauer prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives in cinema. Best screenplay went to the Polish filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski for United States of Love, his portrait of the pivotal 1989-90 period in his country as told through four women, played by some of Poland’s best-known theatre actresses, at crossroads in their lives. Last year’s Golden Bear went to the Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi’s Taxi.

The 11-day festival closes on Sunday with screenings of the most popular featured films. Berlin Film Festival: Panahi's Taxi wins Golden Bear - BBC News BBC News Berlin Film Festival: Panahi's Taxi wins Golden Bear 15 February 2015 Close share panel Image copyright EPA Image caption Panahi was unable to be in Berlin but his niece - and a star of the film - accepted the award on his behalf. A film by dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Golden Bear, the Berlin Film Festival's top prize. Taxi is Panahi's third film since he was banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling in 2010. It was filmed covertly as the director drove a taxi around Tehran. British stars Sir Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling won best actor and actress for their roles as a married couple in Andrew Haigh's 45 Years. Taxi sees Panahi share his thoughts on contemporary Iran with passengers in the back of his cab, using a mounted dashboard camera to evade the scrutiny of the Iranian authorities.

It was one of 19 films vying for the prestigious Golden Bear award, including more high-profile fare from directors such as Wim Wenders, Terence Malick and Peter Greenaway. 'Love letter' "Instead of allowing his spirit to be crushed and giving up, instead of allowing himself to be filled with anger and frustration, Jafar Panahi created a love letter to cinema," said Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, who headed this year's jury. "His film is filled with love for his art, his community, his country and his audience." Owing to his travel ban, Panahi was unable to be in Berlin for the award ceremony, but his niece, Hana Saeidi, was on hand for a tearful acceptance of the statuette. "I'm not able to say anything, I'm too moved," said Ms Saeidi, who appears in the film. In 2011, the Iranian film-maker was made a jury member, but was once again unable to attend because of travel restrictions. An empty chair was left onstage as a reminder of his absence. In an earlier statement, Panahi told festival organisers: "I'm a filmmaker. I can't do anything else but make films.

Cinema is my expression and the meaning of my life. Nothing can prevent me from making films." Speaking to Iran's Ilna news agency after his win, Panahi said: "I'm really happy for me and for Iranian cinema", but added "no prize is worth as much as my compatriots being able to see my films". Image copyright AP Image caption The British stars play a couple contemplating their marriage in the run-up to their 45th wedding anniversary. In 45 Years, Rampling and Courtenay play a long-married couple, whose relationship collapses after an unexpected revelation. The film - from British director and writer Andrew Haigh - was widely praised by critics at the festival. Sir Tom, 77, said he had waited for 30 years to receive the award, following "my friend Albert Finney who won in 1985". He added that he was happy both leads had won: "I would have been really fed up if it had just been Charlotte - but not as fed up as she would have been if it had just been me," he said.

Other films in contention for the Golden Bear included Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell and Robert Pattinson as TE Lawrence, and Bill Condon's Mr Holmes, starring Sir Ian McKellen as a retired Sherlock Holmes. The 65th annual festival also saw the premiere of the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey and the debut of Kenneth Branagh's live-action re-take of Cinderella. Berlin film festival: Fire at Sea wins Golden Bear - BBC News BBC News Berlin film festival: Fire at Sea wins Golden Bear 20 February 2016 Image copyright AP Image caption Gianfranco Rosi accepts the Golden Bear from Meryl Streep Fire at Sea, a documentary about Europe's migrant crisis, has won the Golden Bear award for best movie at the Berlin Film Festival. Gianfranco Rosi's harrowing movie depicts life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The best director award went to Mia Hansen-Love for Things to Come. Majd Mastoura won best actor for his role in Inhebbek Hedi, while Trine Dyrholm took best actress for her part in the movie, Kollektivet.

Accepting the award for Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) from the jury led by American actress Meryl Streep, Rosi said: "I hope to bring awareness. It's not acceptable that people die crossing the sea to escape from tragedies." Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Trine Dyrholm won best actress The movie contrasts the ordeal of migrants as they make the sea crossing to Europe with the everyday life of the people of Lampedusa, to whom Rosi dedicated the film. Streep said: "It's a daring hybrid of captured footage and deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking." The French film Things to Come stars Isabelle Huppert as a teacher coping with the death of her mother and disintegration of her marriage. Tunisian Majd Mastoura's best actor award was for his role in a love story following the Arab Spring, while Denmark's Trine Dyrholm plays a wronged wife in Kollektivet (The Commune). The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Death in Sarajevo and its director Danis Tanovic.

Image copyright AFP Image caption Mia Hansen-Love won best director for Things to Come Image copyright Getty Images Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear | Film | The Guardian Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear Iranian dissident’s Tehran road movie takes top Berlinale honour as British veterans claim acting prizes Photographers crowd around the Golden Bear awarded to Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, for his film Taxi. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/AP Saturday 14 February 2015 19.05 EST Last modified on Sunday 15 February 2015 06.00 EST This article is 1 year old Berlin 2015 first-look review: Taxi – a ridealong career selfie from banned director Jafar Panahi Read more The Iranian dissident film-maker Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival for his Tehran road movie Taxi in what critics described as a victory for freedom of speech and the art of cinematic storytelling.

Panahi, who is banned from making films by the Iranian authorities and forbidden from travelling abroad, stars in his own film as a taxi driver talking to his passengers as he drives them through the streets of Tehran. The decision to celebrate Panahi, who has been described as the “Iranian Woody Allen”, cements the Berlinale’s status as the most politically driven of the world’s main film festivals. “Instead of allowing his spirit to be crushed and giving up, instead of allowing himself to be filled with anger and frustration, Jafar Panahi created a love letter to cinema,” said Darren Aronofsky, the American director and Berlinale jury president. “His film is filled with love for his art, his community, his country and his audience.” Panahi’s award was picked up by one of the film’s young female stars, who broke down on stage saying she was “too moved” to talk. She was comforted by the French actress and jury member Audrey Tatou.

The award ceremony of the 65th Berlinale, which was replete with stars including Cate Blanchett, Juliette Binoche, Christian Bale and James Franco, was also a huge success for British cinema – Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling won the best actor and actress awards for their leading roles in 45 Years, a much-feted drama directed by the rising star Andrew Haigh in which a long-term marriage breaks down within a week. Set in the flat and drained landscape of the Norfolk broads, the film competed with far more glamorous pictures, such as Werner Herzog’s biopic of the British explorer and Arab expert Gertrude Bell, starring Nicole Kidman, and Everything Will Be Fine, Wim Wenders’s 3D portrait of guilt and forgiveness starring James Franco and Charlotte Gainsbourg. But critics were bowled over by Haigh’s slow-burn drama, with both stars winning praise for their mix of British understatement and subtle eroticism.

Accepting the award, Rampling, 69, joked that by receiving the Silver Bear she was like the ambitious daughter “taking the baton” from her father, Godfrey, a British colonel who won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics for the 4 x 400 metres relay. “I think this bear has done the trick,” she said. Courtenay, 77, said he had waited for 30 years to receive a Berlinale bear, following “my friend Albert Finney who won in 1985”. Rampling revealed that one of the most challenging aspects of the film had been Courtenay’s inability to dance, which Courtenay said had meant repeated takes of a key dance scene. “We did 20-odd takes,” he said.

“But my eyes moistened in every single one so we must have done something right.” In a further boost to British film interests, Kenneth Branagh was among the stars on the red carpet following the world premiere last Friday of his live-action modern retake of Cinderella for Disney, as well as Peter Greenaway, the British director whose ambitious and sexually explicit biopic of the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, Eisenstein in Guanajuato, was warmly received. Other awards included the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear, for the Chilean director Pablo Larrain for El Club, a film that centres on a group of Roman Catholic priests who have in various ways dishonoured the church and have been relocated to a small seaside town. The jury said it expected the film would become a “classic of the history of cinema”. In an unusual move, the Romanian and Polish directors Radu Jude and Malgorzata Szumowska were both given best director honours for their films Aferim! and Body.

The Guatemalan film Ixcanul Volcano by director Jayro Bustamente – which tells the story of a poor Mayan teenager on a coffee plantation who plots to leave for the United States with her boyfriend – secured a Silver Bear “for a feature that opens new perspectives”. Some critics expressed relief that the award ceremony, with its focus on the more political and often lower budget films, had finally steered the attention away from the film adaptation of the S&M novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which had its international premiere at the festival earlier in the week and while not in competition, looked to have stolen the limelight despite the widespread opinion that it did not deserve a place at a festival better known for its social realism rather than product-placement-driven soft-porn melodrama. Berlin Film Festival Winners 2014: Full List — Berlin Awards | Deadline Berlin Film Festival UPDATE, 11:00 AM PT: Chinese director Diao Yinan’s noir thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice was a big winner tonight in Berlin . It took the top prize Golden Bear and also scooped the Best Actor Silver Bear for Liao Fan.

The film follows a former detective investigating a string of related deaths, but who also begins to fall in love with the person that connects them. It was a big night for Asian film in general – notable after a lack of titles in competition last year. Cinematographer Zeng Jian won the Silver Bear for Oustanding Contribution for Lou Ye’s Blind Massage and a clearly stunned Haru Kuroki won the Best Actress prize for Japanese director Yoji Yamada’s drama The Little House. Richard Linklater ‘s much-loved Boyhood brought the filmmaker a Silver Bear for directing. He accepted the prize “on behalf of the over 400 people who worked on my movie over all these years.” Linklater made Boyhood in short stints over a 12-year period. Wes Anderson ‘s crowd-pleaser The Grand Budapest Hotel was the Grand Jury Prize winner. Anderson wasn’t on hand but sent a note thanking the festival for the “first full-scale and genuinely metallic” prize he’s ever won from a film festival. A big surprise tonight was the complete shutout of Yann Demange’s ’71, one of the heavy favorites. Click over for the full list of winners.

Related: Berlin: Warm Weather & A Record Deal Can’t Fully Thaw Market Chill; Is EFM Worth It? PREVIOUS: Prizes began rolling out in Berlin earlier today (see below), and ahead of tonight’s main awards which are just starting. They’ll be handed out by a jury presided over by James Schamus . Among the earlier honors were mentions for two of the hottest films in the competition: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Yann Demange’s ’71 . Boyhood was recognized with the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas for best film screened in the Competition, and ’71 received a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury. Both are expected to figure in tonight’s ceremony. The competition this year was somewhat more user-friendly than last year’s hardcore art-house lineup, kicking off with the very warmly received The Grand Budapest Hotel . Still, there were just a handful of other consensus standouts including Dietrich Brüggemann’s religion-themed coming-of-age movie Stations Of The Cross; Hans Petter Moland’s dark comedy In Order Of Disappearance and Diao Yinan’s noir thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice.

Across the sections, Berlin has had a good track record of late when it comes to the Foreign Language Oscar race. Last year’s Panorama title The Broken Circle Breakdown is up for an Oscar next month and previous years’ Oscar selections have included such Berlin bows as A Separation, which won the Foreign Language Academy Award in 2012, and 2013 nominees A Royal Affair and War Witch. I’ll be updating the Golden and Silver Bear winners live below (previously announced winners follow those): COMPETITION | Berlinale | Festival | Awards & Juries | International Short Film Jury International Short Film Jury Prizes of the International Short Film Jury Around 30 films compete for the following awards in the Berlinale Shorts section: Golden Bear for Best Short Film The winner of the Golden Bear qualifies for being eligible for next year's short film Oscar®.

Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) Audi Short Film Award, endowed with € 20,000, enabled by Audi the Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards The winning film is awarded the Berlin nomination for the The International Short Film Jury 2017 © Jörg Reichardt Christian Jankowski (Germany) Jankowski works in the area of concept and media arts using film, video, photography and performance, as well as painting, sculpture and installations. His special focus is on the performative interaction between the artist and an audience far removed from the professional art world. His works are exhibited in numerous museums and collections, and have been shown at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and 2013, among other events. In 2016, he curated the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Zurich, “Manifesta 11”. Christian Jankowski also holds a professorship in sculpture at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. © Naima Green Kimberly Drew (USA) Kimberly Drew is a curator, writer and the social media manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Her blog “Black Contemporary Art”, founded in 2011, and her Instagram channel “museummammy” are among the most influential digital platforms for African and African-American art worldwide. She has been awarded the AIR Gallery Feminist Curator Award and the Gold Rush Award by the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation for her curatorial work. Kimberly Drew studied art history and African-American studies with an emphasis on museum studies at Smith College in Northampton, USA. © Nicolás Tello Carlos Núñez (Chile) Festival programmer and film producer Carlos Núñez is the co-founder and artistic director of SANFIC, the Santiago International Film Festival, an important forum for Chilean and Latin American film. In addition, he is the director and co-founder of the production and distribution company Storyboard Media. Among other films, he has co-produced La Mujer de Barro by Sergio Castro San Martín, which screened in Forum at the 2015 Berlinale. Carlos Núñez is also a university lecturer and a member of Cinema23, a platform for the promotion of film culture in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

The Berlinale Shorts International Jury consists of three filmmakers and artists with a working relationship to the short form. At home in multiple artistic and cultural fields, they each bring with them their own perspective on the way they view and evaluate the competing films: talented international directors, young artists, actresses and actors as well as short film curators and film academy directors award works that tread new cinematographic territory. Go to: Berlin: Chinese Film Noir 'Black Coal, Thin Ice' Wins Golden Bear | Hollywood Reporter Berlin: Chinese Film Noir 'Black Coal, Thin Ice' Wins Golden Bear 10:51 AM PST 2/15/2014 by Scott Roxborough Courtesy of Fortissimo The film from director Diao Yinan is set in the Chinese provinces. Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" takes Berlinale Jury Prize as Richard Linklater wins best director Silver Bear for "Boyhood." Black Coal, Thin Ice, a Chinese film noir from director Diao Yinan has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival. The film's star, Liao Fan, took the Silver Bear honor for best actor for his portrayal of a comic, alcoholic detective working in the Chinese provinces.

"Berlin, I love you!" said director Diao as he hoisted the Golden Bear statue, while actor Liao noted that his Silver Bear win came a day after "the first day of spring in China, which was also Valentine's Day and, as it happens, my 40th birthday. Berlin is full of love and this is the best birthday present I could have hoped for." The actor joked that he had told his mother before the awards ceremony that if he didn't win, he wouldn't come home. Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, a star-studded love letter to pre-WWII Europe, won the Grand Jury Prize, the Berlinale's runner-up honor, while Richard Linklater's Boyhood, a coming-of-age tale shot over 12 years with the same actors -- including Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, won the best director Silver Bear. PHOTOS: Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl Celebrate Berlinale at THR, Babelsberg Party But it was China's night, as the Berlinale International Jury, headed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and ex-Focus Features CEO James Schamus, handed out three top trophies to Chinese films.

In addition to the two for Black Coal, Thin Ice, there was a Silver Bear for Lou Ye's drama Blind Massage honoring "extraordinary artistic achievement." Schamus wrote the screenplay to The Wedding Banquet and has been a frequent collaborator with Ang Lee, penning the scripts to such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution. Black Coal, Thin Ice is a China-U.S. co-production between Jiangsu Omnijoi Movie and Boneyard Entertainment China, the international subsidiary of Daniel J. Victor's Boneyard Entertainment. Investors in Boneyard include rappers 50 Cent, Eminem, music producer Timbaland and New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony. The film will open in China in March. Fortissimo Films is handling world sales. Black Coal, Thin Ice is the first Chinese film to win top honors in Berlin since Wang Quan'an's Tuya's Wedding in 2007. But Berlin has always been a premiere platform for new Chinese cinema.

The Berlinale gave Golden Bear trophies to Zhang Yimou in 1988 for Red Sorghum and to Lee (Life of Pi) in 1993 for The Wedding Banquet (an honor he shared ex aequo with fellow Chinese filmmaker Xie Fei for Xiang hun nu). PHOTOS: THR's Berlin Directors Roundtable Richard Linklater accepted his best director honor on behalf of the "over 400 people" who worked on Boyhood in the course of its incredible 12 year shoot. Wes Anderson was unable to attend the awards ceremony in Berlin Saturday night but sent a message which jury member Greta Gerwig read out: "A number of years ago in Venice, I received the Leone Piccolo, which is a small, miniaturized version of the more familiar stature awarded by a group of local school children," the message went. "More recently in Cannes, I received a Palme d' Chocolate, which is included in a gift bag provided by the festival I keep it in the original cellophane.

However, this Silver Bear is the first both full scale and genuinely metallic prize I have every received from a film festival and so I fell particularly honored, moved and indeed thrilled to accept it." Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick accepted the statuette on behalf of Anderson, saying he would be flying to New York next week in any case and would deliver the award to the director personally. The Silver Bear for best actress went to Japanese actress Haru Kuroki, who plays a girl who leaves her rural hometown to work as a maid in Tokyo in Yoji Yamada’s period melodrama The Little House. Siblings Anna and Dietrich Bruggemann won the best screenplay Silver Bear for their script to Stations of the Cross, a stunning drama about a young girl's journey through faith, which Dietrich Bruggemann directed. The Alfred Bauer Prize, named after the Berlinale's first festival director, went to veteran French filmmaker Alain Resnais for his latest ensemble piece, Life of Riley, which also picked up the Fipresci International Critics Prize as best film, one of the many independent awards presented ahead of Berlin's official prize gala Saturday night. Mexican drama Gueros won the best first film prize for director Alonso Ruizpalacios.

The Golden Bear for best short film went to As long as shotguns remain from Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel while Laborat from director Guillaume Cailleau took the short film Silver Bear.

Question: At which film festival is the Golden Bear awarded?
Answer: Berlin