| Silver Bear for Best Actress (Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) | |
|---|---|
 Shirley MacLaine is the only actress who won the award more than once | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress |
| Country | Germany |
| Presented by | Berlin International Film Festival |
| First awarded | 1956 |
| Last awarded | 2020 |
| Currently held by | Paula Beer Undine (2020) |
| Website | www |
The Silver Bear for Best Actress (German: Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actress. It is selected by the jury of the festival for films in the official competition slate.
The award was first presented in 1956, and can be for lead or supporting roles. The award was not presented in 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, and 1990. Sachiko Hidari is the only actress to win the award for her roles in two different films on the same competition in 1964. In 2011, the award was given to the entire female cast of A Separation. Shirley MacLaine is the only actress that has won the award more than once.
Award winners
Elsa Martinelli, the first winner of the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
Elizabeth Taylor, winner of the 1972 Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
| † | Indicates the performance was also an Academy Award winner |
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| ‡ | Indicates the performance was also nominated for an Academy Award |
| Year | Actress | Role | Film | Original title | Nationality of actress | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | |||||||
| 1956 | Elsa Martinelli | Donatella | Donatella |  Italy |
[1] | ||
| 1957 | Yvonne Mitchell | Amy Preston | Woman in a Dressing Gown |  United Kingdom |
[2] | ||
| 1958 | Anna Magnani | Gioia ‡ | Wild Is the Wind | Italy |
[3] | ||
| 1959 | Shirley MacLaine | Meg Wheeler | Ask Any Girl |  United States |
[4] | ||
| 1960s | |||||||
| 1960 | Juliette Mayniel | Annette | The Fair | Kirmes |  France |
[5] | |
| 1961 | Anna Karina | Angela Récamier | A Woman Is a Woman | Une femme est une femme | France |
[6] | |
| 1962 | Rita Gam (tie) | Estelle Rigault | No Exit | United States |
[7] | ||
| Viveca Lindfors (tie) | Inès Serrano |  Sweden United States
| |||||
| 1963 | Bibi Andersson | The Girl | The Mistress | Älskarinnan | Sweden |
[8] | |
| 1964 | Sachiko Hidari | Tome Matsuki | The Insect Woman | にっぽん昆虫記 (Nippon Konchūki) |  Japan |
[9] | |
| Naoko Ishikawa | She and He | 彼女と彼 (Kanojo to kare) | |||||
| 1965 | Madhur Jaffrey | Manjula | Shakespeare Wallah |  India |
[10] | ||
| 1966 | Lola Albright | Marie Greene | Lord Love a Duck | United States |
[11] | ||
| 1967 | Edith Evans | Maggie Ross ‡ | The Whisperers | United Kingdom |
[12] | ||
| 1968 | Stéphane Audran | Frédérique | Les Biches | France |
[13] | ||
| 1969 | No Award | ||||||
| 1970s | |||||||
| 1970 | No Award | ||||||
| 1971 | Simone Signoret (tie) | Clémence Bouin | Le Chat | France |
[14] | ||
| Shirley MacLaine (tie) | Sophie Bentwood | Desperate Characters | United States
| ||||
| 1972 | Elizabeth Taylor | Jimmie Jean Jackson | Hammersmith Is Out | United Kingdom United States |
[15] | ||
| 1973 | No Award | ||||||
| 1974 | No Award | ||||||
| 1975 | Kinuyo Tanaka | Osaki Yamakawa | Sandakan No. 8 | サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 (Sandakan hachiban shōkan: Bōkyō) | Japan |
[16] | |
| 1976 | Jadwiga Barańska | Barbara Niechcic | Nights and Days | Noce i dnie |  Poland |
[17] | |
| 1977 | Lily Tomlin | Margo Sperling | The Late Show | United States |
[18] | ||
| 1978 | Gena Rowlands | Myrtle Gordon | Opening Night | United States |
[19] | ||
| 1979 | Hanna Schygulla | Maria Braun | The Marriage of Maria Braun | Die Ehe der Maria Braun |  West Germany |
[20] | |
| 1980s | |||||||
| 1980 | Renate Krößner | Ingrid “Sunny” Sommer | Solo Sunny |  East Germany |
[21] | ||
| 1981 | Barbara Grabowska | Kama | Fever | Gorączka | ��Poland |
[22] | |
| 1982 | Katrin Saß | Nina Kern | Bürgschaft für ein Jahr | East Germany |
[23] | ||
| 1983 | Yevgeniya Glushenko | Vera Silkova | Love by Request | Влюблён по собственному желанию (Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu) |  Soviet Union |
[24] | |
| 1984 | Inna Churikova | Vera | Wartime Romance | Военно-полевой роман (Voenno-polevoy roman) | Soviet Union |
[25] | |
| 1985 | Jo Kennedy | Mary | Wrong World |  Australia |
[26] | ||
| 1986 | Charlotte Valandrey (tie) | Nadia | Red Kiss | Rouge Baiser | France |
[27] | |
| Marcélia Cartaxo (tie) | Macabéa | Hour of the Star | A Hora da Estrela |  Brazil
| |||
| 1987 | Ana Beatriz Nogueira | Anderson / Vera Bauer | Vera | Brazil |
[28] | ||
| 1988 | Holly Hunter | Jane Craig ‡ | Broadcast News | United States |
[29] | ||
| 1989 | Isabelle Adjani | Camille Claudel ‡ | Camille Claudel | France |
[30] | ||
| 1990s | |||||||
| 1990 | No Award | ||||||
| 1991 | Victoria Abril | Luisa | Lovers | Amantes |  Spain |
[31] | |
| 1992 | Maggie Cheung | Ruan Lingyu | Center Stage | 阮玲玉 (Ruǎn Língyù) |  Hong Kong |
[32] | |
| 1993 | Michelle Pfeiffer | Lurene Hallett ‡ | Love Field | United States |
[33] | ||
| 1994 | Crissy Rock | Maggie Conlan | Ladybird, Ladybird | United Kingdom |
[34] | ||
| 1995 | Josephine Siao | May Sun | Summer Snow | 女人四十 (Nu ren si shi) | Hong Kong |
[35] | |
| 1996 | Anouk Grinberg | Marie Abarth | My Man | Mon Homme | France |
[36] | |
| 1997 | Juliette Binoche | Hana † | The English Patient | France |
[37] | ||
| 1998 | Fernanda Montenegro | Isadora Teixeira ‡ | Central Station | Central do Brasil | Brazil |
[38] | |
| 1999 | Maria Schrader (tie) | Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) | Aimée & Jaguar | Germany |
[39] | ||
| Juliane Köhler (tie) | Lilly Wust (Aimée) | Germany
| |||||
| 2000s | |||||||
| 2000 | Bibiana Beglau (tie) | Rita Vogt | The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | Germany |
[40] | |
| Nadja Uhl (tie) | Tatjana | Germany
| |||||
| 2001 | Kerry Fox | Claire | Intimacy |  New Zealand |
[41] | ||
| 2002 | Halle Berry | Leticia Musgrove † | Monster's Ball | United States |
[42] | ||
| 2003 | Meryl Streep (tie) | Clarissa Vaughn | The Hours | United States |
[43] | ||
| Nicole Kidman (tie) | Virginia Woolf † | Australia United States
| |||||
| Julianne Moore (tie) | Laura Brown ‡ | United States
| |||||
| 2004 | Catalina Sandino Moreno (tie) | María Álvarez ‡ | Maria Full of Grace | María, llena eres de gracia |  Colombia |
[44] | |
| Charlize Theron (tie) | Aileen Wuornos † | Monster |  South Africa
| ||||
| 2005 | Julia Jentsch | Sophie Scholl | Sophie Scholl – The Final Days | Sophie Scholl — Die letzten Tage | Germany |
[45] | |
| 2006 | Sandra Hüller | Michaela Klingler | Requiem | Germany |
[46] | ||
| 2007 | Nina Hoss | Yella Fichte | Yella | Germany |
[47] | ||
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Pauline "Poppy" Cross | Happy-Go-Lucky | United Kingdom |
[48] | ||
| 2009 | Birgit Minichmayr | Gitti | Everyone Else | Alle Anderen |  Austria |
[49] | |
| 2010s | |||||||
| 2010 | Shinobu Terajima | Shigeko Kurokawa | Caterpillar | キャタピラー (Kyatapirā) | Japan |
[50] | |
| 2011 | Leila Hatami[a] | Simin | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین (Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín) |  Iran |
[51] | |
| Sareh Bayat[a] | Razieh | Iran
| |||||
| Sarina Farhadi[a] | Termeh | Iran
| |||||
| Kimia Hosseini[a] | Somayeh | Iran
| |||||
| 2012 | Rachel Mwanza | Komona | War Witch | Rebelle |  Democratic Republic of the Congo |
[52] | |
| 2013 | Paulina García | Gloria Cumplido | Gloria |  Chile |
[53] | ||
| 2014 | Haru Kuroki | Taki Nunomiya | The Little House | 小さいおうち (Chiisai Ouchi) | Japan |
[54] | |
| 2015 | Charlotte Rampling | Kate Mercer ‡ | 45 Years | United Kingdom |
[55] | ||
| 2016 | Trine Dyrholm | Anna | The Commune | Kollektivet |  Denmark |
[56] | |
| 2017 | Kim Min-hee | Young-hee | On the Beach at Night Alone | 밤의 해변에서 혼자 (Bamui Haebyeoneseo Honja) |  South Korea |
[57] | |
| 2018 | Ana Brun | Chela | The Heiresses | Las herederas |  Paraguay |
[58] | |
| 2019 | Yong Mei | Wang Liyun | So Long, My Son | 地久天长 (Dì jiǔ tiān cháng) |  China |
[59] | |
| 2020s | |||||||
| 2020 | Paula Beer | Undine Wibeau | Undine | Germany |
[60] | ||
| 2021 | Maren Eggert | Alma | I'm Your Man | Germany |
[61] | ||
Multiple award winners
2 awards
- Shirley MacLaine (USA) – Ask Any Girl (1959), Desperate Characters (1971)
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d The entire male and female cast of A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین / Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín) was recipient of this award.
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