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name: "Golden Bear winners"
kind: "award"
canonical: "https://film.one/collections/golden-bear"
films: 12
series: 0
years: "1950–2011"
average_fi1m_score: 85
updated: "2026-09-20T09:11:25.958941+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Golden Bear winners

*Award winners.*

Berlin's top prize since 1951: the festival that takes the political film seriously, and occasionally Rain Man.

**Order.** By festival year, newest first.

Best on Fi1m: [*A Separation*](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md) (93).

## Every year, newest first

Winners in bold; a title without a link is one we have not reviewed yet.

- **2026** — ***Yellow Letters***
- **2025** — ***Dreams (Sex Love)***
- **2024** — ***Dahomey***
- **2023** — ***On the Adamant***. Nominees: [*Suzume*](https://film.one/film/suzume.md) (Fi1m 74)
- **2022** — ***Alcarràs***
- **2021** — ***Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn***
- **2020** — ***There Is No Evil***
- **2019** — ***Synonyms***
- **2018** — ***Touch Me Not***
- **2017** — ***On Body and Soul***
- **2016** — ***Fire at Sea***
- **2015** — ***Taxi***
- **2014** — ***Black Coal, Thin Ice***
- **2013** — ***Child's Pose***
- **2012** — ***Caesar Must Die***
- **2011** — **[*A Separation*](https://film.one/film/a-separation.md) (Fi1m 93)**
- **2010** — ***Honey***
- **2009** — ***The Milk of Sorrow***
- **2008** — ***Elite Squad***
- **2007** — ***Tuya's Marriage***
- **2006** — ***Grbavica***
- **2005** — ***U-Carmen eKhayelitsha***
- **2004** — ***Head-On***
- **2003** — ***In This World***
- **2002** — ***Bloody Sunday***; **[*Spirited Away*](https://film.one/film/spirited-away.md) (Fi1m 92)**
- **2001** — ***Intimacy***
- **2000** — **[*Magnolia*](https://film.one/film/magnolia.md) (Fi1m 84)**
- **1999** — **[*The Thin Red Line*](https://film.one/film/the-thin-red-line.md) (Fi1m 84)**
- **1998** — **[*Central Station*](https://film.one/film/central-station.md) (Fi1m 85)**
- **1996** — **[*Sense and Sensibility*](https://film.one/film/sense-and-sensibility.md) (Fi1m 85)**; ***1997***
- **1995** — ***The Bait***
- **1994** — **[*In the Name of the Father*](https://film.one/film/in-the-name-of-the-father.md) (Fi1m 83)**
- **1993** — **[*The Wedding Banquet*](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet.md) (Fi1m 81)**; ***Woman Sesame Oil Maker***
- **1992** — ***Grand Canyon***
- **1991** — ***The House of Smiles***
- **1990** — ***Larks on a String***; ***Music Box***
- **1989** — **[*Rain Man*](https://film.one/film/rain-man.md) (Fi1m 76)**
- **1988** — ***Red Sorghum***
- **1987** — ***The Theme***
- **1986** — ***Stammheim***
- **1985** — ***Wetherby***; ***The Woman and the Stranger***
- **1984** — ***Love Streams***
- **1983** — ***Ascendancy***; ***La colmena***
- **1982** — ***Veronika Voss***
- **1981** — ***Deprisa, deprisa***
- **1980** — ***Heartland***; ***Palermo or Wolfsburg***
- **1979** — ***David***
- **1978** — ***Ascensor***; ***Las truchas***; ***What Max Said***
- **1977** — ***The Ascent***
- **1976** — ***Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson***
- **1975** — ***Adoption***
- **1974** — ***The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz***
- **1973** — ***Distant Thunder***
- **1972** — ***The Canterbury Tales***
- **1971** — ***The Garden of the Finzi-Continis***
- **1969** — ***Early Works***
- **1968** — ***Who Saw Him Die?***
- **1967** — ***Le Départ***
- **1966** — ***Cul-de-Sac***
- **1965** — ***Alphaville***
- **1964** — ***Dry Summer***
- **1963** — ***Bushido, Samurai Saga***; ***To Bed or Not to Bed***
- **1962** — ***A Kind of Loving***
- **1961** — ***La Notte***
- **1960** — ***El Lazarillo de Tormes***
- **1959** — ***Les Cousins***
- **1958** — ***Wild Strawberries***
- **1957** — **[*12 Angry Men*](https://film.one/film/12-angry-men.md) (Fi1m 91)**
- **1956** — ***Invitation to the Dance***; ***1957***
- **1955** — ***Die Ratten***
- **1954** — ***Hobson's Choice***
- **1953** — **[*The Wages of Fear*](https://film.one/film/the-wages-of-fear.md) (Fi1m 90)**
- **1952** — ***One Summer of Happiness***
- **1951** — ***Four in a Jeep***; ***Without Leaving an Address***; ***In Beaver Valley***; ***Justice Is Done (Thriller & Adventure)***; ***Cinderella (Music Film)***; **[*Cinderella*](https://film.one/film/cinderella-1950.md) (Fi1m 72)**

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