Berlin_Film_Festival Berlin_Film_Festival

Berlin Film Festival - Definition and Overview
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One of the "A" festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the "Berlinale" is held annually in February and started 1951 after an initiative of the Americans, who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always placed special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc Countries as well as from Western countries. The award are called Golden and Silver Bears (as the Bear is the symbol of Berlin).

List of Winners

  • Honorary Golden Bear
  • Berlinale Camera

Golden Bear

Year Film Director Country
2004 Head On Fatih Akin Germany/Turkey
2003 In this World Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom
2002 Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki Japan
Bloody Sunday Paul Greengrass UK/Ireland
2001 Intimacy Patrice Chéreau France
2000 Magnolia Paul Thomas Anderson United States
1999 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick United States
1998 Central Station Walter Salles Brazil
1997 The People vs. Larry Flynt Milos Forman United States
1996 Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee United States
1995 Fresh Bait Bertrand Tavernier France
1994 In the Name of the Father Jim Sheridan UK/Ireland
1993 The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls Xie Fei China
The Wedding Banquet Ang Lee Taiwan
1992 Grand Canyon Lawrence Kasdan United States
1991 La Casa del sorriso Marco Ferreri Italy
1990 Music Box Costa-Gavras United States
Larks on a String Jiri Menzel Czechoslovakia
1989 Rain Man Barry Levinson United States
1988 Red Sorghum Yimou Zhang China
1987 Tema Gleb Panfilov Soviet Union
1986 Stammheim Reinhard Hauff West Germany
1985 Die Frau und der Fremde Rainer Simon East Germany
Wetherby David Hare United Kingdom
1984 Love Streams John Cassavetes United States
1983 Ascendancy Edward Bennett United Kingdom
The Beehive Mario Camus Spain
1982 Veronika Voss Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany
1981 Faster, Faster Carlos Saura Spain
1980 Heartland Richard Pearce United States
Palermo or Wolfsburg Werner Schroeter West Germany
1979 Daivd Peter Lilienthal West Germany
1978 Trout José Luis García Sánchez Spain
What Max Said Emilio Martínez Lázaro Spain
1977 Ascent Larisa Shepitko Soviet Union
1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians Robert Altman United States
1975 Adoption Márta Mészáros Hungary
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Ted Kotcheff Canada
1973 Distant Thunder Satyajit Ray India
1972 The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy
1971 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Vittorio De Sica Italy/W. Germany


See also: other film festivals, Oscars

External links

  • from the German-language Wikipedia includes winners since 1951
  • Official website (http://www.berlinale.de)


--Deco 01:04, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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