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Silver Bear winners (directors)

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1. Christian Petzold

Barbara (2012)

2. Ulrich Köhler

Sleeping Sickness (2011)

8.2

3. Roman Polanski

Ghost Writer (2010).

8.2

4. Asghar Farhadi

About Elly (2009).

8.3

5. Paul Thomas Anderson

There Will Be Blood (2008).

6. Joseph Cedar

Beaufort (2007).

4.7

7. Mat Whitecross

See Michael Winterbottom.

8. Michael Winterbottom

Docudrama The Road to Guantanamo brought the award for the first time for two co-directors in 2006: Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross.

5.7

9. Marc Rothemund

World War II drama Sophie Scholl brought silver bear for director Marc Rothemund (2005).

10. Ki-duk Kim

Controversial Korean director Kim Ki-Duk was awarded for Samaria in 2004.

7.6

11. Patrice Chéreau

Son Frére (2003).

6.8

12. Otar Iosseliani

Lundi Matin (2002).

13. Cheng-sheng Lin

Ai ni ai wo (2001).

14. Milos Forman

The biopic comedy starring Jim Carrey, Man on the Moon was awarded the Director's Bear in 2000.

7.1

15. Stephen Frears

The Hi-Lo Country (1999)

16. Neil Jordan

The Butcher Boy (1998).

17. Eric Heumann

Port Djema (1997).

18. Richard Loncraine

In 1996 for Richard III. The reward was shared with Ho Yim.

19. Ho Yim

In 1996 for Tai yang you er. The reward was shared with Richard Loncraine.

7.5

20. Richard Linklater

Acclaimed indie director Linklater won the prize in 1995 from minimalistic drama Before Sunrise.

8.9

21. Krzysztof Kieslowski

Kieslowski's color trilogy's parts were released three festivals in mind: Cannes, Venice and Berlin. The second part of the series, Three Colors White was awarded the Silver Bear for best director in 1994.

22. Andrew Birkin

The Cement Garden (1993).

7.8

23. Jan Troell

Il Capitano (1992).

6.3

24. Ricky Tognazzi

Ultrá won in 1991. The award was shared with Jonathan Demme.

7.2

25. Jonathan Demme

Serial killer thriller The Silence of the Lambs was Demme's Academy Award Winning film. It also brought him the Silver Bear in 1991. The award was shared with Ricky Tognazzi.

26. Michael Verhoeven

Das Schreckliche Mädchen (1990).

27. Dusan Hanák

Ja milujem, ty milujes (1989).

7.1

28. Norman Jewison

Three times Academy Awarded comedy Moonstruck brought Norman Jewison the Silver Bear in 1988.

7.3

29. Oliver Stone

Platoon was a part of Stone's research of America's immediate past together with films like The Doors and JFK. 1987.

30. Georgi Shengeliya

Achalgasrda kompositoris mogsauroba (1986).

7.2

31. Robert Benton

Places in the Heart (1985).

8.1

32. Ettore Scola

Scola's Le Bal was an unusual film because it represented Algeria's output in competition though being produced in France. Won the Bear in 1984.

8.2

33. Eric Rohmer

A typical rohmerian comedy drama on youth and love, Pauline á la Plage won in 1983.

7.8

34. István Szabó

One of the best known Hungarian directors won in 1980. The film was called Bizalom.

35. Astrid Henning-Jensen

The only woman director to date to have won the director's Silver Bear. Vinterborn (1979).

36. Georgi Djulgerov

Advatange (1978).

37. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

Camada Negra (1977).

9.5

38. Sergei Solovyov

Sto dney posle detstva (1975).

39. Jean-Pierre Blanc

La vieille fille (1972).

40. Zivojin Pavlovic

Budjenje Pacova (1967).

7.7

41. Carlos Saura

Like Satyajit Ray, Carlos Saura has been awarded two times with best director award in Berlinale. First in 1966 (La Caza), then in 1968 (Peppermint Frappé).

8.5

42. Satyajit Ray

India's most universally known film director Satyajit Ray won his Silver Bear two years in a row. Mahanagar earned him the award in 1964 and Charulata in 1965

43. Nikos Koundouros

Mikres Afrodites (1963).

8.3

44. Francesco Rosi

Salvatore Giuliano (1962).

45. Bernhard Wicki

Das Wunder des Malachias (1961).

8.3

46. Jean-Luc Godard

Famous French film critic, radically political film maker and a film buff Jean-Luc Godard won in 1960 for his groundbreaking debut feature Breathless.

47. Akira Kurosawa

The legendary Kurosawa won the award for his influential adventure epic Hidden Fortress made in 1959.

48. Tadashi Imai

In 1958 for Jun'ai Monogatari. Quite surprisingly the first Japanese director to be awarded, considering the fact that Imai is not as near as widely known than many of his colleagues.

8.4

49. Mario Monicelli

Monicelli is the second awarded director and has won two Silver Bears after his first win thus making him the only director achieving the director's award three times.

Monicelli's award winning films are Padri e figli (1957), Caro Michele (1976) and Il Marchese de Grillo (1982).