Berlinale

The Berlinale, or Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale  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

• Official website
• Berlinale at the Internet Movie Database
• Berlin Life: An introduction to the Berlin Film Festival
• Review of the 2006 Berlin Film Festival Archived 2006-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Signandsight about the director Dieter Kosslick
• Lathrios Film Festival Database Archived 2008-01-18 at the Wayback Machine - the Lathrios listing for the Berlin International Film Festival including a film list and analysis for the event.