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Silver Bear for Best Actress
Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin (German)
Shirley MacLaine is the only actress to win the award twice
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress
CountryGermany
Presented byBerlin International Film Festival
First awarded1956
Last awarded2020
Currently held byPaula Beer
Undine (2020)
Websitewww.berlinale.de

The Silver Bear for Best Actress (German: Silberner Bär/Beste Darstellerin) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and was chosen by the International Jury from the films in the Competition slate at the festival. Beginning with the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, the award was replaced with two gender-neutral categories, Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.

At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival held in 1956, Elsa Martinelli was the first winner of this award for her performance in Donatella, and Paula Beer was the last winner in this category for her role in Undine at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020.

History

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The award was first presented in 1956 and could be for lead or supporting roles. The prize was not awarded on four occasions (1969, 1973–74, and 1990). In 1970, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the controversy over the official selection film, o.k. by Michael Verhoeven, which led to the resignation of the international jury. In 2011, the entire female cast of A Separation received the award. Shirley MacLaine has won the most awards in this category, with two.

Sachiko Hidari is the only actress to win a joint award for her roles in two different films in the same competition; she won in 1964 for her performances in The Insect Woman and She and He.

The last of this award was given out in 2020, after which it was replaced with gender-neutral categories, Best Leading Performance and Best Supporting Performance, the following year.

Winners

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photo of Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli, the first winner of the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Martinelli in Donatella (1956)
photo of Paula Beer
Paula Beer, the last winner of the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Year Actress Role English Title Original Title Ref.
1950s
1956
(6th)
Italy Elsa Martinelli Donatella Donatella [1]
1957
(7th)
England Yvonne Mitchell Amy Preston Woman in a Dressing Gown [2]
1958
(8th)
Italy Anna Magnani Gioia Wild Is the Wind [3]
1959
(9th)
United States Shirley MacLaine Meg Wheeler Ask Any Girl [4]
1960s
1960
(10th)
France Juliette Mayniel Annette The Fair Kirmes [5]
1961
(11th)
Denmark France Anna Karina Angela Récamier A Woman Is a Woman Une femme est une femme [6]
1962
(12th)
United States Rita Gam Estelle Rigault No Exit [7]
Sweden Viveca Lindfors Inès Serrano
1963
(13th)
Sweden Bibi Andersson The Girl The Mistress Älskarinnan [8]
1964
(14th)
Japan Sachiko Hidari [A] Tome Matsuki The Insect Woman にっぽん昆虫記 [9]
Naoko Ishikawa She and He 彼女と彼
1965
(15th)
India England United States Madhur Jaffrey Manjula Shakespeare Wallah [10]
1966
(16th)
United States Lola Albright Marie Greene Lord Love a Duck [11]
1967
(17th)
England Edith Evans Maggie Ross The Whisperers [12]
1968
(18th)
France Stéphane Audran Frédérique Les Biches [13]
1970s
1971
(21st)
United States Shirley MacLaine Sophie Bentwood Desperate Characters [14]
France Simone Signoret Clémence Bouin Le Chat
1972
(22nd)
England United States Elizabeth Taylor Jimmie Jean Jackson Hammersmith Is Out [15]
1975
(25th)
Japan Kinuyo Tanaka Osaki Yamakawa Sandakan No. 8 サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 [16]
1976
(26th)
Poland Jadwiga Barańska Barbara Niechcic Nights and Days Noce i dnie [17]
1977
(27th)
United States Lily Tomlin Margo Sperling The Late Show [18]
1978
(28th)
United States Gena Rowlands Myrtle Gordon Opening Night [19]
1979
(29th)
Germany Hanna Schygulla Maria Braun The Marriage of Maria Braun Die Ehe der Maria Braun [20]
1980s
1980
(30th)
Germany Renate Krößner Ingrid “Sunny” Sommer Solo Sunny [21]
1981
(31st)
Poland Barbara Grabowska Kama Fever Gorączka [22]
1982
(32nd)
Germany Katrin Sass Nina Kern Bürgschaft für ein Jahr [23]
1983
(33rd)
Russia Yevgeniya Glushenko Vera Silkova Love by Request Влюблён по собственному желанию [24]
1984
(34th)
Soviet Union Russia Inna Churikova Vera Nikolaevna Wartime Romance Военно-полевой роман [25]
1985
(35th)
Australia Jo Kennedy Mary Wrong World [26]
1986
(36th)
Brazil Marcélia Cartaxo Macabéa Hour of the Star A Hora da Estrela [27]
France Charlotte Valandrey Nadia Red Kiss Rouge Baiser
1987
(37th)
Brazil Ana Beatriz Nogueira Vera Bauer Vera [28]
1988
(38th)
United States Holly Hunter Jane Craig Broadcast News [29]
1989
(39th)
France Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel Camille Claudel [30]
1990s
1991
(41st)
Spain Victoria Abril Luisa Lovers Amantes [31]
1992
(42nd)
Hong Kong England Maggie Cheung Ruan Lingyu Center Stage 阮玲玉 [32]
1993
(43rd)
United States Michelle Pfeiffer Lurene Hallett Love Field [33]
1994
(44th)
England Crissy Rock Maggie Conlan Ladybird, Ladybird [34]
1995
(45th)
Hong Kong Josephine Siao May Sun Summer Snow 女人四十 [35]
1996
(46th)
France Anouk Grinberg Marie Abarth My Man Mon Homme [36]
1997
(47th)
France Juliette Binoche Hana The English Patient [37]
1998
(48th)
Brazil Fernanda Montenegro Isadora Teixeira Central Station Central do Brasil [38]
1999
(49th)
Germany Juliane Köhler Lilly Wust (Aimée) Aimée & Jaguar [39]
Germany Maria Schrader Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)
2000s
2000
(50th)
Germany Bibiana Beglau Rita Vogt The Legend of Rita Die Stille nach dem Schuß [40]
Germany Nadja Uhl Tatjana
2001
(51st)
New Zealand Kerry Fox Claire Intimacy [41]
2002
(52nd)
United States Halle Berry Leticia Musgrove Monster's Ball [42]
2003
(53rd)
Australia United States Nicole Kidman Virginia Woolf The Hours [43]
United States Julianne Moore Laura Brown
United States Meryl Streep Clarissa Vaughn
2004
(54th)
Colombia Catalina Sandino Moreno María Álvarez Maria Full of Grace María, llena eres de gracia [44]
South Africa United States Charlize Theron Aileen Wuornos Monster
2005
(55th)
Germany Julia Jentsch Sophie Scholl Sophie Scholl – The Final Days Sophie Scholl — Die letzten Tage [45]
2006
(56th)
Germany Sandra Hüller Michaela Klingler Requiem [46]
2007
(57th)
Germany Nina Hoss Yella Fichte Yella [47]
2008
(58th)
England Sally Hawkins Pauline "Poppy" Cross Happy-Go-Lucky [48]
2009
(59th)
Austria Birgit Minichmayr Gitti Everyone Else Alle Anderen [49]
2010s
2010
(60th)
Japan Shinobu Terajima Shigeko Kurokawa Caterpillar キャタピラー [50]
2011
(61st)
Iran Leila Hatami [B] Simin A Separation جدایی نادر از سیمین [51]
Iran Sareh Bayat [B] Razieh
Iran Sarina Farhadi [B] Termeh
Iran Kimia Hosseini [B] Somayeh
2012
(62nd)
Democratic Republic of the Congo Rachel Mwanza Komona War Witch Rebelle [52]
2013
(63rd)
Chile Paulina García Gloria Cumplido Gloria [53]
2014
(64th)
Japan Haru Kuroki Taki Nunomiya The Little House 小さいおうち [54]
2015
(65th)
England Charlotte Rampling Kate Mercer 45 Years [55]
2016
(66th)
Denmark Trine Dyrholm Anna The Commune Kollektivet [56]
2017
(67th)
South Korea Kim Min-hee Young-hee On the Beach at Night Alone 밤의 해변에서 혼자 [57]
2018
(68th)
Paraguay Ana Brun Chela The Heiresses Las herederas [58]
2019
(69th)
China Yong Mei Wang Liyun So Long, My Son 地久天长 [59]
2020s
2020
(70th)
Germany Paula Beer Undine Wibeau Undine [60]

Multiple winners

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The following actress is the only person to have received multiple Best Actress awards:

Wins Actress Nationality Films
2 Shirley MacLaine United States Ask Any Girl (1959),
Desperate Characters (1971)

See also

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Notes

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A^ : Performer to receive a joint award which honor the outstanding work in multiple different films in the same official competition slate.
B^ : The entire male and female cast of A Separation (جدایی نادر از سیمین) was recipient of this award.

References

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