Golden Bear

Golden Bear
Golden Bear
Goldener Bär (German)
Location	Berlin
Country	Germany
Presented by	Berlin International Film Festival
First awarded	1951
Currently held by	Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Website	https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html

The Golden Bear (German: Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. The winners of the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 were determined by a West German panel, with five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres.^[1] Between 1952 and 1955, the winners of the Golden Bear were determined by the audience members.^[2] In 1956, the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films formally accredited the festival, and since then, the Golden Bear has been awarded by an international jury.^[2]

The award[]

Adina Pintilie with the Golden Bear in 2018

The statuette shows a bear standing on its hind legs and is based on the 1932 design by German sculptor Renée Sintenis of Berlin's heraldic mascot that later became the symbol of the festival. It has been manufactured since the first edition by art foundry Hermann Noack.^[3]^[4] It was awarded for the first time in 1951 and was redesigned in a larger version in 1960.^[5] Also, the left arm of the bear was raised as opposed to the right in the former model.^[6] The current bear is 20 cm high and is fixed onto a base where the winning name is engraved.^[7] The figurine consists of a bronze core, which is then plated with a layer of gold. The total weight of the award is 4 kg.^[8]

Winners[]

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country of origin
1950s
1951 – West German Jury Vote
1951 (1st)	Four in a Jeep (Drama)	Die Vier im Jeep	Leopold Lindtberg	Switzerland
	Without Leaving an Address (Comedies)	...Sans laisser d'adresse	Jean-Paul Le Chanois	France
	In Beaver Valley (Documentaries)		James Algar	United States
	Justice Is Done (Thrillers & Adventures)	Justice est faite	André Cayatte	France
	Cinderella (Music Film)		Wilfred Jackson	United States
1952–1955 – Audience Vote
1952 (2nd)	One Summer of Happiness	Hon dansade en sommar	Arne Mattsson	Sweden
1953 (3rd)	The Wages of Fear	Le salaire de la peur	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France, Italy
1954 (4th)	Hobson's Choice		David Lean	United Kingdom
1955 (5th)	Die Ratten		Robert Siodmak	West Germany
1956–present – International Jury
1956 (6th)	Invitation to the Dance		Gene Kelly	United States
1957 (7th)	12 Angry Men		Sidney Lumet	United States
1958 (8th)	Wild Strawberries	Smultronstället	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1959 (1959)	Les Cousins		Claude Chabrol	France
1960s
1960 (10th)	El Lazarillo de Tormes		César Fernández Ardavín	Spain
1961 (11th)	La Notte		Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1962 (12th)	A Kind of Loving		John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
1963 (13th)	Bushido, Samurai Saga ^#	武士道残酷物語	Tadashi Imai	Japan
1963 (13th)	To Bed or Not to Bed ^#	Il diavolo	Gian Luigi Polidoro	Italy
1964 (14th)	Dry Summer	Susuz yaz	Metin Erksan	Turkey
1965 (15th)	Alphaville	Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution	Jean-Luc Godard	France, Italy
1966 (16th)	Cul-de-Sac		Roman Polanski	United Kingdom
1967 (17th)	The Departure	Le départ	Jerzy Skolimowski	Belgium
1968 (18th)	Who Saw Him Die?	Ole dole doff	Jan Troell	Sweden
1969 (1969)	Early Works	Rani radovi	Želimir Žilnik	Yugoslavia
1970s
1970 (1970)	No awards given that year because of the controversy surrounding the participation in the main competition of director Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film o.k. that led to the resignation of the international jury before the festival ended.^[9]
1971 (21st)	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Il giardino dei Finzi Contini	Vittorio De Sica	West Germany, Italy
1972 (22nd)	The Canterbury Tales	I racconti di Canterbury	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
1973 (23rd)	Distant Thunder	Ashani Sanket	Satyajit Ray	India
1974 (24th)	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz		Ted Kotcheff	Canada
1975 (25th)	Adoption	Örökbefogadás	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
1976 (26th)	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson		Robert Altman	United States
1977 (27th)	The Ascent	Восхождение	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet Union
1978 (28th)	Ascensor ^#		Tomás Muñoz	Spain
	Las truchas ^#		José Luis García Sánchez	Spain
	What Max Said ^#	Las palabras de Max	Emilio Martínez-Lázaro	Spain
1979 (29th)	David		Peter Lilienthal	West Germany
1980s
1980 (30th)	Heartland ^#		Richard Pearce	United States
1980 (30th)	Palermo or Wolfsburg ^#	Palermo oder Wolfsburg	Werner Schroeter	West Germany
1981 (31st)	Deprisa, Deprisa		Carlos Saura	Spain
1982 (32nd)	Veronika Voss	Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
1983 (33rd)	Ascendancy ^#		Edward Bennett	United Kingdom
1983 (33rd)	La colmena ^#		Mario Camus	Spain
1984 (34th)	Love Streams		John Cassavetes	United States
1985 (35th)	Wetherby ^#		David Hare	United Kingdom
1985 (35th)	The Woman and the Stranger ^#	Die Frau und der Fremde	Rainer Simon	East Germany
1986 (36th)	Stammheim	Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
1987 (37th)	The Theme	Teмa	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1988 (38th)	Red Sorghum	红高粱	Zhang Yimou	China
1989 (39th)	Rain Man		Barry Levinson	United States
1990s
1990 (40th)	Larks on a String ^#	Skřivánci na niti	Jiří Menzel	Czechoslovakia
1990 (40th)	Music Box ^#		Costa-Gavras	United States
1991 (41st)	The House of Smiles	La casa del sorriso	Marco Ferreri	Italy
1992 (42nd)	Grand Canyon		Lawrence Kasdan	United States
1993 (43rd)	The Wedding Banquet ^#	喜宴	Ang Lee	Taiwan, United States
1993 (43rd)	Woman Sesame Oil Maker ^#	香魂女	Xie Fei	China
1994 (44th)	In the Name of the Father		Jim Sheridan	United Kingdom, Ireland
1995 (45th)	The Bait	L'appât	Bertrand Tavernier	France
1996 (46th)	Sense and Sensibility		Ang Lee	United States
1997 (47th)	The People vs. Larry Flynt		Miloš Forman	United States
1998 (48th)	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Walter Salles	Brazil, France
1999 (49th)	The Thin Red Line		Terrence Malick	United States
2000s
2000 (50th)	Magnolia		Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
2001 (51st)	Intimacy		Patrice Chéreau	France
2002 (52nd)	Bloody Sunday ^#		Paul Greengrass	United Kingdom, Ireland
2002 (52nd)	Spirited Away ^#	千と千尋の神隠し	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
2003 (53rd)	In This World		Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
2004 (54th)	Head-On	Gegen die Wand	Fatih Akin	Germany
2005 (55th)	U-Carmen eKhayelitsha		Mark Dornford-May	South Africa
2006 (56th)	Grbavica		Jasmila Žbanić	Germany, BIH
2007 (57th)	Tuya's Marriage	图雅的婚事	Wang Quan'an	China
2008 (58th)	Elite Squad	Tropa de Elite	José Padilha	Brazil
2009 (59th)	The Milk of Sorrow	La teta asustada	Claudia Llosa	Spain, Peru
2010s
2010 (60th)	Honey	Bal	Semih Kaplanoğlu	Turkey
2011 (61st)	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
2012 (62nd)	Caesar Must Die	Cesare deve morire	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Italy
2013 (63rd)	Child's Pose	Poziția copilului	Călin Peter Netzer	Romania
2014 (64th)	Black Coal, Thin Ice	白日焰火	Diao Yinan	China
2015 (65th)	Taxi	تاکسی	Jafar Panahi	Iran
2016 (66th)	Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi	Italy
2017 (67th)	On Body and Soul	Testről és lélekről	Ildikó Enyedi	Hungary
2018 (68th)	Touch Me Not	Nu mă atinge-mă	Adina Pintilie	Romania
2019 (69th)	Synonyms	Synonymes	Nadav Lapid	France, Israel
2020s
2020 (70th)	There Is No Evil	شیطان وجود ندارد	Mohammad Rasoulof	Iran
2021 (71st)	Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn	Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc	Radu Jude	Romania

Notes: ^# Denotes Ex-aequo win

Multiple winners[]

The following have won the award twice:

/ Ang Lee (1993 & 1996)

Golden Bear – Honorary Award[]

The Honorary Golden Bear (German: Goldener Ehrenbär) is the Berlin International Film Festival's honorary award for lifetime achievement by important figures in the world of film.^[10]

A Golden Bear statue

Year	Winner(s)
1982	James Stewart
1988	Alec Guinness
1989	Dustin Hoffman
1990	Oliver Stone
1993	Gregory Peck and Billy Wilder
1994	Sophia Loren
1995	Alain Delon
1996	Elia Kazan and Jack Lemmon
1997	Kim Novak
1998	Catherine Deneuve
1999	Shirley MacLaine
2000	Jeanne Moreau
2001	Kirk Douglas
2002	Robert Altman and Claudia Cardinale
2003	Anouk Aimée
2004	Fernando Solanas
2005	Im Kwon-taek and Fernando Fernán Gómez
2006	Andrzej Wajda and Ian McKellen
2007	Arthur Penn
2008	Francesco Rosi
2009	Maurice Jarre
2010	Wolfgang Kohlhaase and Hanna Schygulla
2011	Armin Mueller-Stahl
2012	Meryl Streep
2013	Claude Lanzmann^[11]
2014	Ken Loach^[12]
2015	Wim Wenders^[13]
2016	Michael Ballhaus^[14]
2017	Milena Canonero
2018	Willem Dafoe
2019	Charlotte Rampling
2020	Helen Mirren^[15]

References[]

^ [1]
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "- Berlinale – Archive – Annual Archives – 1952 – Juries".
^ "German Film Festival bear awards based on 1939 design previewed in Berlin". EFE. Berlin. January 11, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
^ "Eventful Berlinale". deutschland.de. February 19, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
^ "Große kleine Tiere". Cicero (in German). Retrieved April 9, 2019.
^ English, James F. (2008). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-0-674-03043-5.
^ Günther, Ulrich (February 19, 2010). "Berlinale Cineasten blicken auf den Bären". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved April 9, 2019.
^ "In pictures". Novinite. February 8, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2019.
^ "Berlinale 1970: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
^ "THE HONORARY GOLDEN BEAR". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
^ "Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin's Honorary Golden Bear". screendaily. Retrieved 2012-12-13.
^ "Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Ken Loach". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
^ "Homage 2015 and Honorary Golden Bear for Wim Wenders". berlinale.de. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ "Martin Scorsese's Longtime Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus Is Set To Be Honoured With A Lifetime Achievement Award At The 2016 Berlin International Film Festival". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
^ "Homage and Honorary Golden Bear 2020 for Dame Helen Mirren". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 19 December 2019.

External links[]

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[jury-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "- Berlinale – Archive – Annual Archives – 1952 – Juries".

[statuette-3] "German Film Festival bear awards based on 1939 design previewed in Berlin". EFE. Berlin. January 11, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2019.

[facts-4] "Eventful Berlinale". deutschland.de. February 19, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.

[cicero-5] "Große kleine Tiere". Cicero (in German). Retrieved April 9, 2019.

[prestige-6] English, James F. (2008). The Economy of Prestige: prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-0-674-03043-5.

[Berlinale-7] Günther, Ulrich (February 19, 2010). "Berlinale Cineasten blicken auf den Bären". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved April 9, 2019.

[weigh-8] "In pictures". Novinite. February 8, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2019.

[Berlinale_1970_Prizes-9] "Berlinale 1970: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved March 7, 2010.

[10] "THE HONORARY GOLDEN BEAR". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 10 December 2017.

[Lanzmann-11] "Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin's Honorary Golden Bear". screendaily. Retrieved 2012-12-13.

[KenLoach-12] "Homage and Honorary Golden Bear for Ken Loach". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

[WimWenders-13] "Homage 2015 and Honorary Golden Bear for Wim Wenders". berlinale.de. Retrieved 5 October 2014.

[MichaelBallhaus-14] "Martin Scorsese's Longtime Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus Is Set To Be Honoured With A Lifetime Achievement Award At The 2016 Berlin International Film Festival". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

[HelenMirren-15] "Homage and Honorary Golden Bear 2020 for Dame Helen Mirren". Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. Retrieved 19 December 2019.

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1951–1975	Cinderella (1951) Four in a Jeep (1951) In Beaver Valley (1951) Justice Is Done (1951) Without Leaving an Address (1951) One Summer of Happiness (1952) The Wages of Fear (1953) Hobson's Choice (1954) Die Ratten (1955) Invitation to the Dance (1956) 12 Angry Men (1957) Wild Strawberries (1958) Les Cousins (1959) El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960) La Notte (1961) A Kind of Loving (1962) Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963) To Bed or Not to Bed (1963) Dry Summer (1964) Alphaville (1965) Cul-de-sac (1966) The Departure (1967) Who Saw Him Die? (1968) Early Works (1969) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971) The Canterbury Tales (1972) Distant Thunder (1973) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Adoption (1975)
1976–2000	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) The Ascent (1977) Ascensor (1978) Las truchas (1978) What Max Said (1978) David (1979) Heartland (1980) Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) Veronika Voss (1982) Ascendancy (1983) La colmena (1983) Love Streams (1984) Wetherby (1985) The Woman and the Stranger (1985) Stammheim (1986) The Theme (1987) Red Sorghum (1988) Rain Man (1989) Larks on a String (1990) Music Box (1990) The House of Smiles (1991) Grand Canyon (1992) The Wedding Banquet (1993) Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993) In the Name of the Father (1994) The Bait (1995) Sense and Sensibility (1996) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997) Central Station (1998) The Thin Red Line (1999) Magnolia (2000)
2001–present	Intimacy (2001) Bloody Sunday (2002) Spirited Away (2002) In This World (2003) Head-On (2004) U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005) Grbavica (2006) Tuya's Marriage (2007) Elite Squad (2008) The Milk of Sorrow (2009) Honey (2010) A Separation (2011) Caesar Must Die (2012) Child's Pose (2013) Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) Taxi (2015) Fire at Sea (2016) On Body and Soul (2017) Touch Me Not (2018) Synonyms (2019) There Is No Evil (2020) Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)