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Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) | Winners of Berlin Film Festival (since 1951)

This is the list of all the major winners (in different years: «Golden Bear») of the Berlin International Film Festival since 1951. In the notes: information about the number of the festival, the year of the event and the country of production of the winner.


Unrewarded Years due to canceled, or noncompetitive, or failed competitive festival issue:

• 197020th Berlinale – Failed Competitive (was cancelled and no major prizes were awarded, due to a controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film «o.k.»)


Multiple Winners:

Ang Lee (1993, 1996) — Taiwan/USA (+ Venice double winner)


Winners by Country:

United States — 15: (2x1951, 1956, 1957, 1976, 1980 (1/2), 1984, 1989, 1990 (1/2), 1992, 1993 (1/2), 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000)…

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  • Yellow Letters

    1

  • Dreams

    2

  • Dahomey

    3

  • On the Adamant

    4

  • Alcarràs

    5

  • Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

    6

  • There Is No Evil

    7

  • Synonyms

    8

  • Touch Me Not

    9

  • On Body and Soul

    10

  • Fire at Sea

    11

  • Taxi

    12

  • Black Coal, Thin Ice

    13

  • Child's Pose

    14

  • Caesar Must Die

    15

  • A Separation

    16

  • Honey

    17

  • The Milk of Sorrow

    18

  • Elite Squad

    19

  • Tuya's Marriage

    20

  • Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

    21

  • U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

    22

  • Head-On

    23

  • In This World

    24

  • Bloody Sunday

    25

  • Spirited Away

    26

  • Intimacy

    27

  • Magnolia

    28

  • The Thin Red Line

    29

  • Central Station

    30

  • The People vs. Larry Flynt

    31

  • Sense and Sensibility

    32

  • Fresh Bait

    33

  • In the Name of the Father

    34

  • Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

    35

  • The Wedding Banquet

    36

  • Grand Canyon

    37

  • The House of Smiles

    38

  • Larks on a String

    39

  • Music Box

    40

  • Rain Man

    41

  • Red Sorghum

    42

  • The Theme

    43

  • The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial

    44

  • Wetherby

    45

  • The Woman and the Stranger

    46

  • Love Streams

    47

  • The Beehive

    48

  • Ascendancy

    49

  • Veronika Voss

    50

  • Faster, Faster

    51

  • Palermo or Wolfsburg

    52

  • Heartland

    53

  • David

    54

  • Ascensor

    55

  • Trout

    56

  • What Max Said

    57

  • The Ascent

    58

  • Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

    59

  • Adoption

    60

  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    61

  • Distant Thunder

    62

  • The Canterbury Tales

    63

  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

    64

  • Early Works

    65

  • Who Saw Him Die?

    66

  • The Departure

    67

  • Cul-de-sac

    68

  • Alphaville

    69

  • Dry Summer

    70

  • Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

    71

  • To Bed or Not to Bed

    72

  • A Kind of Loving

    73

  • La Notte

    74

  • El Lazarillo de Tormes

    75

  • The Cousins

    76

  • Wild Strawberries

    77

  • 12 Angry Men

    78

  • Invitation to the Dance

    79

  • The Rats

    80

  • Hobson's Choice

    81

  • The Wages of Fear

    82

  • One Summer of Happiness

    83

  • Beaver Valley

    84

  • Cinderella

    85

  • Justice Is Done

    86

  • Without Leaving an Address

    87

  • Four in a Jeep

    88