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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 award1956
Final award2020
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 recipient of this award for Donatella (1956)
Shirley McLaine won twice for Ask Any Girl (1959), and Desperate Characters (1971)
Bibi Andersson won for The Mistress (1962)
Gena Rowlands won for Opening Night (1977)
Isabelle Adjani won for Camille Claudel (1988)
Juliette Binoche won for The English Patient (1996)
Halle Berry won for Monsters Ball (2001)
Meryl Streep won with her co-stars Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore for The Hours (2002)
Charlotte Rampling won for 45 Years (2015)
Kim Min-hee won for On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
photo of Paula Beer
Paula Beer, the last winner of the Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2020

1950s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
1956 Italy Elsa Martinelli Donatella Donatella [1]
1957 England Yvonne Mitchell Amy Preston Woman in a Dressing Gown [2]
1958 Italy Anna Magnani Gioia Wild Is the Wind [3]
1959 United States Shirley MacLaine Meg Wheeler Ask Any Girl [4]

1960s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
1960 France Juliette Mayniel Annette The Fair [5]
1961 Denmark France Anna Karina Angela Récamier A Woman Is a Woman [6]
1962 United States Rita Gam Estelle Rigault No Exit [7]
Sweden Viveca Lindfors Inès Serrano
1963 Sweden Bibi Andersson The Girl The Mistress [8]
1964 Japan Sachiko Hidari [A] Tome Matsuki The Insect Woman [9]
Naoko Ishikawa She and He
1965 India England United States Madhur Jaffrey Manjula Shakespeare Wallah [10]
1966 United States Lola Albright Marie Greene Lord Love a Duck [11]
1967 England Edith Evans Maggie Ross The Whisperers [12]
1968 France Stéphane Audran Frédérique Les Biches [13]

1970s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
1971 United States Shirley MacLaine Sophie Bentwood Desperate Characters [14]
France Simone Signoret Clémence Bouin Le Chat
1972 England United States Elizabeth Taylor Jimmie Jean Jackson Hammersmith Is Out [15]
1975 Japan Kinuyo Tanaka Osaki Yamakawa Sandakan No. 8 [16]
1976 Poland Jadwiga Barańska Barbara Niechcic Nights and Days [17]
1977 United States Lily Tomlin Margo Sperling The Late Show [18]
1978 United States Gena Rowlands Myrtle Gordon Opening Night [19]
1979 Germany Hanna Schygulla Maria Braun The Marriage of Maria Braun [20]

1980s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
1980 Germany Renate Krößner Ingrid “Sunny” Sommer Solo Sunny [21]
1981 Poland Barbara Grabowska Kama Fever [22]
1982 Germany Katrin Sass Nina Kern Bürgschaft für ein Jahr [23]
1983 Russia Yevgeniya Glushenko Vera Silkova Love by Request [24]
1984 Soviet Union Russia Inna Churikova Vera Nikolaevna Wartime Romance [25]
1985 Australia Jo Kennedy Mary Wrong World [26]
1986 Brazil Marcélia Cartaxo Macabéa Hour of the Star [27]
France Charlotte Valandrey Nadia Red Kiss
1987 Brazil Ana Beatriz Nogueira Vera Bauer Vera [28]
1988 United States Holly Hunter Jane Craig Broadcast News [29]
1989 France Isabelle Adjani Camille Claudel Camille Claudel [30]

1990s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
1991 Spain Victoria Abril Luisa Lovers [31]
1992 Hong Kong England Maggie Cheung Ruan Lingyu Center Stage [32]
1993 United States Michelle Pfeiffer Lurene Hallett Love Field [33]
1994 England Crissy Rock Maggie Conlan Ladybird, Ladybird [34]
1995 Hong Kong Josephine Siao May Sun Summer Snow [35]
1996 France Anouk Grinberg Marie Abarth My Man [36]
1997 France Juliette Binoche Hana The English Patient [37]
1998 Brazil Fernanda Montenegro Isadora Teixeira Central Station [38]
1999 Germany Juliane Köhler Lilly Wust (Aimée) Aimée & Jaguar [39]
Germany Maria Schrader Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar)

2000s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
2000 Germany Bibiana Beglau Rita Vogt The Legend of Rita [40]
Germany Nadja Uhl Tatjana
2001 New Zealand Kerry Fox Claire Intimacy [41]
2002 United States Halle Berry Leticia Musgrove Monster's Ball [42]
2003 Australia United States Nicole Kidman Virginia Woolf The Hours [43]
United States Julianne Moore Laura Brown
United States Meryl Streep Clarissa Vaughn
2004 Colombia Catalina Sandino Moreno María Álvarez Maria Full of Grace [44]
South Africa United States Charlize Theron Aileen Wuornos Monster
2005 Germany Julia Jentsch Sophie Scholl Sophie Scholl – The Final Days [45]
2006 Germany Sandra Hüller Michaela Klingler Requiem [46]
2007 Germany Nina Hoss Yella Fichte Yella [47]
2008 England Sally Hawkins Pauline "Poppy" Cross Happy-Go-Lucky [48]
2009 Austria Birgit Minichmayr Gitti Everyone Else [49]

2010s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
2010 Japan Shinobu Terajima Shigeko Kurokawa Caterpillar [50]
2011 Iran Leila Hatami [B] Simin A Separation [51]
Iran Sareh Bayat [B] Razieh
Iran Sarina Farhadi [B] Termeh
Iran Kimia Hosseini [B] Somayeh
2012 Democratic Republic of the Congo Rachel Mwanza Komona War Witch [52]
2013 Chile Paulina García Gloria Cumplido Gloria [53]
2014 Japan Haru Kuroki Taki Nunomiya The Little House [54]
2015 England Charlotte Rampling Kate Mercer 45 Years [55]
2016 Denmark Trine Dyrholm Anna The Commune [56]
2017 South Korea Kim Min-hee Young-hee On the Beach at Night Alone [57]
2018 Paraguay Ana Brun Chela The Heiresses [58]
2019 China Yong Mei Wang Liyun So Long, My Son [59]

2020s

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Year Actress Role(s) English Title Ref.
2020 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.

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