Golden Bear
With the Golden Bear at the best full-length film will be awarded in international competition in the organized annual International Film Festival of Berlin. This therefore is the most important award of the festival before the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Bear). The subject was taken as the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival or the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival from the coat of arms of Berlin. About the Prize tunes a jury, usually composed of international filmmakers. The award trophy was designed by the German artist Renée Sintenis and since 2007, also awarded to the best contribution of the Berlinale Shorts section, the international short film competition.
Award winners
Best Feature Film
The most frequently with the top prize in Berlin awarded the works of American film directors (13 wins), followed by their colleagues from France (8) United Kingdom ( 7), Germany, Spain and Italy ( 6). Twice won the Golden Bear so far only the Taiwanese Ang Lee (1993 and 1996). In addition, the jury in the past could not agree on a multiple winning film, most recently happened in 2002, when the Brit Paul Greengrass ( Bloody Sunday ) shared the Golden Bear with Hayao Miyazaki ( Spirited Away Land). It was the second victory of an animated cartoon after the award of Cinderella in 1951. During the same year a documentary was with James Algars Beaver Valley for the first time awards.
Directors from the German cinema for the first time in 1951 were successful, as was the four awarded in the jeep of the Swiss Leopold Lindtberg together with four other productions. He was followed by the Germans Peter Lilienthal (1979 for David ), Werner Schroeter (1980 Palermo or Wolfsburg ), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( 1982 Veronika Voss ), Rainer Simon (1985 for The Woman and the Stranger ), Reinhard Hauff ( 1986 master home ) and Fatih Akın ( 2004 against the Wall ).
Win female filmmakers were exceptions as well as at the film festivals of Cannes and Venice. After 1975, the Hungarian Márta Mészáros with their adoption drama won the Golden Bear, followed her in 1977, the Soviet director Larissa Shepitko ( ascent), 2006, the Bosnian Jasmila Žbanić ( Esma's Secret - Grbavica ) and 2009, the Peruvian Claudia Llosa ( The Milk of Sorrow ).