Berlin Competition

Reference

1st (1951):

1. Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

2nd (1952):

1. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)

3rd (1953):

4th (1954):

1. Ikiru (Kurosawa Akira)

5th (1955):

6th (1956):

7th (1957):

8th (1958):

1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)

9th (1959):

10th (1960):

1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

11th (1961):

1. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
3. The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa Akira)

12th (1962):

1. The End of Summer (Ozu Yasujiro)
2. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

13th (1963):

1. Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)

14th (1964):

1. The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
2. She and He (Hani Susumu)

15th (1965):

1. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
2. Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
3. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)

16th (1966):

1. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Hunt (Carlos Saura)

17th (1967):

1. La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer)
2. Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)

18th (1968):

1. Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
3. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
4. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
5. Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)

19th (1969):

1. Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Greetings (Brian De Palma)

20th (1970):

1. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
2. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
3. Dionysus in '69 (Brian De Palma)

21st (1971):

1. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
2. The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

22nd (1972):

1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

23rd (1973):

1. Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
2. Belladonna of Sadness (Yamamoto Eiichi)

24th (1974):

25th (1975):

26th (1976):

1. Small Change (François Truffaut)

27th (1977):

1. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
2. The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
3. Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
4. Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)

28th (1978):

29th (1979):

1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Alexandria... Why? (Youssef Chahine)
3. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
4. Love on the Run (François Truffaut)

30th (1980):

1. The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
2. Confidence (Szabó István)

31st (1981):

32nd (1982):

1. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

33rd (1983):

1. Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)

34th (1984):

1. Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

35th (1985):

36th (1986):

1. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)

37th (1987):

1. The Death of Empedocles (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

38th (1988):

1. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)

39th (1989):

1. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)

40th (1990):

1. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)

41st (1991):

1. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)

42nd (1992):

43rd (1993):

1. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
2. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)

44th (1994):

1. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

45th (1995):

1. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)

46th (1996):

1. Mahjong (Edward Yang)

47th (1997):

1. The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Viva Erotica (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
3. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)

48th (1998):

1. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
3. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)

49th (1999):

1. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
2. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)

50th (2000):

1. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)

51st (2001):

1. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
2. Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
3. Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)

52nd (2002):

1. Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
2. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

53rd (2003):

1. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
2. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)

54th (2004):

1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
2. Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
3. The Final Cut (Omar Naim)

55th (2005):

1. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)

56th (2006):

57th (2007):

58th (2008):

1. Sparrow (Johnnie To)
2. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)

59th (2009):

60th (2010):

1. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)

61st (2011):

1. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)

62nd (2012):

1. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
2. Barbara (Christian Petzold)

63rd (2013):

1. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)

64th (2014):

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
3. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)

65th (2015):

1. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
2. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
3. Aferim! (Radu Jude)

66th (2016):

1. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
2. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
3. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)

67th (2017):

1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
3. Félicité (Alain Gomes)

68th (2018):

1. Transit (Christian Petzold)
2. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)

69th (2019):

1. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
2. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)

70th (2020):

1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
3. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
4. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
5. Undine (Christian Petzold)
6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)

71st (2021):

1. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
2. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
3. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
4. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Domink Graf)
6. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)

72nd (2022):

1. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
3. Return to Dust (Li Ruijun)
4. Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)

73rd (2023):

1. Music (Angela Schanelec)
2. Afire (Christian Petzold)
3. The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
4. The Plough (Philippe Garrel)
5. Past Lives (Celine Song)
6. Tótem (Lila Avilés)

74th (2024):