UPDATE, 11:00 AM PT: Chinese director Diao Yinan’s noir thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice was a big winner tonight in Berlin. It took the top prize Golden Bear and also scooped the Best Actor Silver Bear for Liao Fan. The film follows a former detective investigating a string of related deaths, but who also begins to fall in love with the person that connects them. It was a big night for Asian film in general – notable after a lack of titles in competition last year. Cinematographer Zeng Jian won the Silver Bear for Oustanding Contribution for Lou Ye’s Blind Massage and a clearly stunned Haru Kuroki won the Best Actress prize for Japanese director Yoji Yamada’s drama The Little House. Richard Linklater‘s much-loved Boyhood brought the filmmaker a Silver Bear for directing. He accepted the prize “on behalf of the over 400 people who worked on my movie over all these years.” Linklater made Boyhood in short stints over a 12-year period. Wes Anderson‘s crowd-pleaser The Grand Budapest Hotel was the Grand Jury Prize winner. Anderson wasn’t on hand but sent a note thanking the festival for the “first full-scale and genuinely metallic” prize he’s ever won from a film festival. A big surprise tonight was the complete shutout of Yann Demange’s ’71, one of the heavy favorites. Click over for the full list of winners.
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PREVIOUS: Prizes began rolling out in Berlin earlier today (see below), and ahead of tonight’s main awards which are just starting. They’ll be handed out by a jury presided over by James Schamus. Among the earlier honors were mentions for two of the hottest films in the competition: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and Yann Demange’s ’71. Boyhood was recognized with the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas for best film screened in the Competition, and ’71 received a Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury. Both are expected to figure in tonight’s ceremony. The competition this year was somewhat more user-friendly than last year’s hardcore art-house lineup, kicking off with the very warmly received The Grand Budapest Hotel. Still, there were just a handful of other consensus standouts including Dietrich Brüggemann’s religion-themed coming-of-age movie Stations Of The Cross; Hans Petter Moland’s dark comedy In Order Of Disappearance and Diao Yinan’s noir thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice. Across the sections, Berlin has had a good track record of late when it comes to the Foreign Language Oscar race. Last year’s Panorama title The Broken Circle Breakdown is up for an Oscar next month and previous years’ Oscar selections have included such Berlin bows as A Separation, which won the Foreign Language Academy Award in 2012, and 2013 nominees A Royal Affair and War Witch. I’ll be updating the Golden and Silver Bear winners live below (previously announced winners follow those):
COMPETITION
Golden Bear Best Film:
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prix:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
by Wes Anderson
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize:
Aimer, Boire Et Chanter
by Alain Resnais
Silver Bear for Best Director:
Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Silver Bear for Best Actress:
Haru Kuroki
The Little House
Silver Bear for Best Actor:
Liao Fan
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Silver Bear for Best Script:
Dietrich & Anna Brüggemann
Stations Of The Cross
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution:
Cinematography: Zeng Jian
Blind Massage
Golden Bear Best Short Film:
As Long As Shotguns Remain
by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Silver Bear Jury Prize Short Film:
Laborat
by Guillaume Cailleau
PANORAMA
Best First Feature:
Güeros
by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Audience Award – Fiction:
Difret
Ethiopia
by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
2nd Place:
Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks)
Brazil
by Daniel Ribeiro
3rd Place:
Patardzlebi (Brides)
Georgia / France
by Tinatin Kajrishvili
Audience Award – Documentary:
Der Kreis (The Circle)
Switzerland
by Stefan Haupt
2nd Place:
Finding Vivian Maier
USA
by John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
3rd Place:
My Mother, A War And Me
Germany
by Tamara Trampe & Johann Feindt
GENERATION KPLUS (Children’s Jury)
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
Killa
by Avinash Arun, India
Special Mention:
Hitono Nozomino Yorokobiyo
by Masakazu Sugita, Japan
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film:
Sprout
by Ga-eun Yoon, Republic of Korea
Special Mention:
Sepatu Baru
by Aditya Ahmad, Indonesia
GENERATION KPLUS (International Jury)
Grand Prize:
Ciencias Naturales
by Matías Lucchesi, Argentina/France
Special Mention:
Killa
by Avinash Arun, India
Best Short Film:
Moy Lichniy Los’
by Leonid Shmelkov, Russian Federation
Special Mention:
el
by Roland Ferge, Hungary
GENERATION 14PLUS (Youth Jury)
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
52 Tuesdays
by Sophie Hyde, Australia
Special Mention:
ärtico
by Gabri Velázquez, Spain
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film:
Mike
by Petros Silvestros, Great Britain
Special Mention:
Emo (The Musical)
by Neil Triffett, Australia
GENERATION 14PLUS (International Jury)
Violet
by Bas Devos, Belgium / Netherlands
Special Mention:
Einstein And Einstein
by Cao Baoping, People’s Republic of China
Special Prize for the best short film:
Vetrarmorgun
by Sakaris Stórá, Faroe Islands
Special Mention:
Søn
by Kristoffer Kiørboe, Denmark
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Competition:
Stations Of The Cross
by Dietrich Brüggemann
Special Mention
’71
by Yann Demange
Panorama:
Calvary
by John Michael McDonagh
Special Mention
Triptych
by Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires
Forum:
At Home
by Athanasios Karanikolas
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE
The Square
by Jehane Noujaim
FRENCH-GERMAN YOUTH OFFICE AWARD
Anywhere Else
by Ester Amrami
Special Mention
fog
by Nicole Vögele
PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS
Boyhood
by Richard Linklater
CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD
Panorama:
The Lamb
by Kutluğ Ataman
Forum:
She’s Lost Control
by Anja Marquardt
NETPAC PRIZE
A Dream Of Iron
by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
tied with:
Non-Fiction Diary
by Jung Yoon-suk
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