Golden Bear

The Golden Bear is the highest prize given at the Berlin International Film Festival (often known as Berlinale).

List of Golden Bear winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1952	Hon dansade en sommar	Arne Mattsson	Sweden
1953	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France/Italy
1954	Hobson's Choice	David Lean	United Kingdom
1955	Die Ratten	Robert Siodmak	Federal Republic of Germany
1956	Invitation To The Dance	Gene Kelly	United States
1957	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	United States
1958	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1959	Les Cousins	Claude Chabrol	France
1960	El Lazarillo de Tormes	César Ardavin	Spain
1961	La notte	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1962	A Kind of Loving	John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
1963	Il Diavolo	Gian Luigi Polidoro	Italy
1964	Susuz Yaz	Ismail Metin Karabey	Turkey
1965	Alphaville	Jean-Luc Godard	France/Italy
1966	Cul-de-Sac	Roman Polanski	United Kingdom
1967	Le départ	Jerzy Skolimowski	Belgium
1968	Ole dole doff	Jan Troell	Sweden
1969	Rani Radovi	Želimir Žilnik	Yugoslavia
1970	No official prizes awarded
1971	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio De Sica	Italy/W. Germany
1972	The Canterbury Tales	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
1973	Distant Thunder	Satyajit Ray	India
1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Ted Kotcheff	Canada
1975	Adoption	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	Robert Altman	United States
1977	The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet Union
1978	Las Truchas	José Luis García Sánchez	Spain
	Ascensor	Tomas Munoz
	La Palabras de Max	Emilio Martínez Lázaro
1979	David	Peter Lilienthal	West Germany
1980	Heartland	Richard Pearce	United States
	Palermo or Wolfsburg	Werner Schroeter	West Germany
1981	Deprisa, Deprisa	Carlos Saura	Spain (co-production with France)
1982	Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
1983	Ascendancy	Edward Bennett	United Kingdom
	The Beehive	Mario Camus	Spain
1984	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	United States
1985	Die Frau und der Fremde	Rainer Simon	East Germany
	Wetherby	David Hare	United Kingdom
1986	Stammheim	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
1987	The Theme	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1988	Red Sorghum	Zhang Yimou	China
1989	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	United States
1990	Music Box	Costa-Gavras	United States
	Larks on a String	Jiri Menzel	Czechoslovakia
1991	La Casa del sorriso	Marco Ferreri	Italy
1992	Grand Canyon	Lawrence Kasdan	United States
1993	Woman Sesame Oil Maker	Xie Fei	China
	The Wedding Banquet	Ang Lee	Taiwan/United States
1994	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	UK/Ireland
1995	L'Appât	Bertrand Tavernier	France
1996	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee	United States/United Kingdom
1997	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman	United States
1998	Central Station	Walter Salles	Brazil (co-produced with France)
1999	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	United States
1999	The Tic Code	Gary Winick	United States
2000	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
2001	Intimacy	Patrice Chéreau	UK (co-produced with France, Germany and Spain)
2002	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	UK/Ireland
2003	In This World	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
2004	Head-On	Fatih Akin	Germany/Turkey
2005	U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha	Marc Dornford-May	South Africa
2006	Grbavica	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (co-produced with Austria, Germany and Croatia)
2007	Tuya's Marriage	Wang Quan'an	China
2008	The Elite Squad
2009	The Milk of Sorrow
2010	Honey
2011