Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin, Germany
Notes
- The Berlin International Film Festival is acknowledged to be an competitive film fest by the International Federation of Film Producers (FIAPF) since 1956.
Awards
AG Kino Gilde - Cinema Vision 14plus
ARTE International Prize
Alfred Bauer Award
- The award is named for and given in memory of Berlin Film Festival founder Alfred Bauer.
Alfred Bauer Award - Honorable Mention
Amnesty International Film Prize
Amnesty International Film Prize - Special Mention
Artekino International Award
Audi Short Film Award
Audi Short Film Award - Special Mention
Audience Poll: Grand Bronze Plate
Audience Poll: Small Bronze Plate
Berlin Bear Jubilee Award
Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards
Berlin Today Award
Berlin Today Award - Honorable Mention
Berlinale - EFM
Berlinale Camera
- Several trophies are handed out each year, mostly two or three.
Berlinale Documentary Award
Berlinale Documentary Award - Special Mention
Berlinale Series Award
Berlinale Talent Campus
Berlinale Talents Doc Station Development Grant
Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award
Best Debut Film
Best Debut Film - Honorable Mention
Best European Short Film
- The winning film is automatically nominated for the European Short Film Award at the next European Film Awards.
Best First Feature Award
Best First Feature Award - Special Mention
Best Short Film
Blue Angel
Bronze Berlin Bear
Bronze Plaque
C.I.C.A.E. Award
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Honorable Mention
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Recommendation
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention
C.I.D.A.L.C. Award
C.I.D.A.L.C. Award - Honorable Mention
C.I.D.A.L.C. Award - Special Recommendation
C.I.D.A.L.C. Diploma
C.I.D.A.L.C. Ghandi Award
C.I.D.A.L.C. Silver Medal
C.I.D.A.L.C. Special Jury Prize
C.I.D.A.L.C. UNESCO Award
C.I.F.E.J. Award
C.I.F.E.J. Award - Honorable Mention
Caligari Film Award
- The award has been inaugurated by initiative of Heiner Roß, head master of the Metropolis cinema in Hamburg, Germany.
Caligari Film Award - Special Mention
Children's Film Festival: Award of the Maria Schell Foundation
- This award is given at the Children's Film Fest.
Children's Film Festival: Award of the Senator for Women, Youth and Family
- This is the former main award of the Children's Film Fest.
Children's Film Festival: Best Short Film
Children's Film Festival: Best Short Film - Honorable Mention
Children's Film Festival: Honorable Mention
Chrystal Bear Special Mention
Cinema Fairbindet Prize
Compass-Perspektive Award
Compass-Perspektive Award - Special Mention
Competition Audience Award
Crystal Bear
- This award is given at the Children's Film Fest and has also been referred to as "Glass Bear" formerly in English.
Crystal Bear - Special Mention
- This award is given at the Children's Film Fest.
Culinary Cinema
DAAD Short Film Award
DIALOGUE en Perspective
- The prize aspires to make new German cinema more accessible to young French audiences.
DIALOGUE en Perspective - Actor's Award
DIALOGUE en Perspective - Special Mention
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Award
- This award is given at the Children's Film Fest.
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention
Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix
- This award is given at the Children's Film Fest.
Dolby Atmos Policy Trailer
Dolby Sound Mark Prize
Don Quixote Award
Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
EFA Award
EFP Shooting Star
Encounters Award
Encounters Award - Best Director
Encounters Award - Special Jury Prize
Encounters Award - Special Mention
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Prize
FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention
FIPRESCI Prize - Recommendation
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Recommendation
Femina-Film-Prize
Femina-Film-Prize - Special Mention
Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for International Cooperation
First Movie Award
First Movie Award - Special Mention
Forum
Free Speech Bear Award
GWFF Best First Feature Award
Generation Prize
Giuseppe Becce Award
Glasshütte Original Documentary Award
Golden Berlin Bear
Golden Berlin Bear for Best Short Film
Golden Plaque
Grand Bronze Plaque
Grand Golden Plaque
Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury
Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus International Jury
Grand Silver Plaque
Guild Film Prize
Heiner Carow Prize
Honorable Mention
Honorary Golden Berlin Bear
IWG Golden Plaque
Interfilm Award
- Since 1992 the evangelic and catholic film (Interfilm and OCIC) juries are merged to one ecumenical jury.
Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention
Interfilm Award - One World Award
Interfilm Award - Otto Dibelius Film Award
Interfilm Award - Recommendation
Interfilm Award - Special Mention
Interfilm Award - Special Prize
Interfilm Award - Special Recommendation
Interfilm Grand Prix
Journalists' Special Award
Jury Award
Kompagnon-Fellowship
Label Europa Cinemas
- The "Label Europa Cinemas" is an intiative of the Association "Europa Cinemas" which supports European films, their distribution in Europe and raises awareness about them amongst the public and in the media. In cooperation with the Label, each year a European film in the "Semaine des Réalisateurs" at Cannes and, since 2004, during the "Venice Days" in Venice, a jury of five member cinema operators presents the award to a European film. (from the Berlinale web site, 2005)
Label Europa Cinemas - Special Mention
Made in Germany - Perspektive Fellowship Award
Manfred Salzgeber Award
Manfred Salzgeber Award - Special Mention
Mionetto Film Award
Männer Jury Award
Netpac Award
Netpac Award - Special Mention
New Talent Award
New York Film Academy Scholarship Award
OCIC Award
- Since 1992 the evangelic and catholic film (Interfilm and OCIC) juries are merged to one ecumenical jury.
OCIC Award - Honorable Mention
OCIC Award - Recommendation
OCIC Award - Special Mention
OCIC Award - Special Recommendation
OCIC Promotional Award
OCIC Promotional Award - Honorable Mention
Otto Domnick Film Award
Panorama Audience Award
- The statuette had been designed by Berlin sculptor Hubertus Brand.
Panorama Award of the New York Film Academy
Panorama Award of the New York Film Academy - Special Mention
Panorama Short Film Award
Panorama Short Film Award - Special Mention
Panorama Special Jury Short Film Award
Peace Film Award
- The statuette has been designed by Berlin artist Otmar Alt.
Peace Film Award - Honorable Mention
Perspektive Award
Pierrot Award for Best European First Work
Planet Documentary Film Award
Prix Berlin (EFA European Short Film)
Prix UIP Berlin (European Short Film)
- The winning film is automatically nominated for the European Short Film Award at the next European Film Awards.
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- Since 1992 the evangelic and catholic film (Interfilm and OCIC) juries are merged to one ecumenical jury.
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
Prize of the Senator for People's Education
- Predecessor to the Youth Film Award.
Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"
Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung"
Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung" - Special Mention
Reader Jury of the "Siegessäule"
Reader Jury of the "Tagesspiegel"
Reader Jury of the "Zitty"
Score Competition
- The Volkswagen Score Competition for sound designers and composers has been inaugurated in 2004 and is part of the Berlinale Talent Campus' The Sound and Music section.
Silver Berlin Bear
- The Silver Berlin Bear is given in several categories including the 'Special Prize of the Jury', which can be considered 'second best movie'.
Silver Berlin Bear - Honorable Mention
Silver Plaque
Small Bronze Plaque
Small Golden Plaque
Small Silver Plaque
Special Mention
Special Mention AG-Kino Gilde Cinema Vision 14Plus
Special Mention Youth Jury Generation 14plus Best Short Film
Special Mention of the Generation 14plus International Jury
Special Mention of the Generation Kplus International Jury
Special Prize of the City of Berlin
Special Prize of the City of Berlin - Honorary Diploma
Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury
Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury
Special Prize of the Senate of Berlin
Special Recognition
Special Teddy
Tagesspiegel Readers' Jury Award
Talent Movie of the Week
Talents Footprints - Mastercard Enablement Programme
Teddy
- The Teddy is officially recognized as festival award since 1992. In its early years only films from the Panorama section were considered for the award.
- The Teddy is the only world-wide gay/lesbian film award at one of the main international film festivals.
- The Teddy statuette has been designed by comic strip artist 'Ralf König'.
Teddy - Special Mention
Teddy Audience Award
Teddy Jury Award
Think:Film Award
Think:Film Award - Special Mention
Thomas Strittmacher Drehbuchpreis
UNICEF Award
UNICEF Award - Honorable Mention
UNICRIT Award
UNICRIT Award - Honorable Mention
UNICRIT Special Award
UNICRIT Statuette
VFF Talent Highlight Award
VFF Talent Highlight Pitch Award
Wolfgang Staudte Award
- The award is given in honor of German director Wolfgang Staudte.
Wolfgang Staudte Award - Special Mention
Youth Film Award
Youth Film Award - Honorable Mention
Historical Timeline
1952
- The festival's competition films are judged by the festival's audience.
1953
- The festival's competition films are judged by the festival's audience.
1954
- The festival's competition films are judged by the festival's audience.
1955
- The festival's competition films are judged by the festival's audience.
1956
- The festival's competition films are judged by a professional jury as well as by the festival's audience.
1970
- The jury does not award a movie.
- The jury does not honor a movie due to the premature ending of the festival.
- After the resignation of the international jury an independent group of film critics from Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands and Switzerland formed to hand out this award.
- Its controversial plot and the selection of the movie O.K. (1970) for the competition of the festival is causing such a tohubohu between filmmakers and festival officials that the festival directors offer their resignation and the festival breaks down before it ends. On 5 July 1970, two days before the official ending of the festival, the international jury resigns. Only some minor awards are handed out.
2004
- An additional award for the best short film is introduced this year.
2006
- Over 19,000 ballots are collected.
2008
- An online audience poll for the best peace film 2008 is being held. It is open to all films, not just festival screenings. However a Berlinale film wins the poll: Football Under Cover (2008).