Awards
- Golden Berlin Bear:
- Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila Zbanic
- Best Short Film - Never Like the First Time! by Jonas Odell
- Silver Berlin Bear:
- Best Film Music - Isabella by Peter Kam
- Best Actor - Moritz Bleibtreu for The Elementary Particles
- Best Actress - Sandra Hüller for Requiem
- Best Director - Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo
- Best Short Film - Penpusher by Guillaume Martinez
- Outstanding Artistic Achievement - Jürgen Vogel for The Free Will
- Jury Grand Prix - En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen
- Honorable Mention:
- Short Film - Maryam Keshavarz for El día que morí
- Honorary Golden Berlin Bear:
- Andrzej Wajda
- Ian McKellen
- Berlinale Camera:
- Michael Ballhaus
- Jürgen Böttcher
- Laurence Kardish
- Peter B. Schumann
- Hans Helmut Prinzler
- Best Debut Film:
- En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen (director) & Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)
- Panorama Audience Award:
- Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls
- Short Film - Talya Lavie for The Substitute
- Crystal Bear:
- Best Short Film - Cameron B. Alyasin for Never an Absolution
- Best Feature Film - Niels Arden Oplev for We Shall Overcome
- 14Plus: Best Feature Film - Henry Meyer for Four Weeks in June
- Crystal Bear - Special Mention:
- Best Short Film: Irina Boiko for The Thief
- Best Feature Film: Auraeus Solito for The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
- 14Plus: Best Feature Film: Claude Gagnon for Kamataki
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix:
- The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Award:
- A Fish with a Smile by C. Jay Shih
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention:
- Best Short Film - Vika by Tsivia Barkai
- Best Feature Film - I Am by Dorota Kedzierzawska
- Teddy:
- Best Short Film - El día que morí by Maryam Keshavarz
- Best Documentary Film - Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou
- Best Feature Film - The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
- Teddy Jury Award:
- Patrick Carpentier for Combat
- FIPRSECI Prize:
- Competition - Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid
- Forum of New Cinema - So Yong Kim for In Between Days
- Panorama - Knallhart for Detlev Buck
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
- Competition - Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila Zbanic
- Forum of New Cinema - Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon by Khalo Matabane
- Panorama - The Collector by Feliks Falk
- C.I.C.A.E. Award:
- Forum of New Cinema - Close to Home by Dalia Hager
- Panorama - Yuan Zhang for Little Red Flowers
- Netpac Award:
- Dear Pyongyang by Yong-hi Yang
- Prix UIP Berlin:
- The Fence by Ricardo Íscar
- Alfred Bauer Award:
- Rodrigo Moreno for El custodio
- Label Europa Cinemas:
- Detlev Buck for Knallhart
- Caligari Film Award:
- Ben Hopkins for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
- DIALOGUE en Perspective:
- Bülent Akinci for Running on Empty
- DIALOGUE en Perspective - Special Mention:
- Florian Gaag for Wholetrain
- Talent Movie of the Week:
- Phillip Van for High Maintenance
- Berlin Today Award:
- Anna Azevedo for BerlinBall
- Score Competition:
- Alasdair Reid
- Manfred Salzgeber Award:
- Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls
- Panorama Short Film Award:
- Tala Hadid for Your Dark Hair Ihsan
- DAAD Short Film Award:
- Rony Sasson for Swanettes
- Peace Film Award:
- Jasmila Zbanic for Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
- Amnesty International Film Prize:
- Masoud Arif Salih for Narcissus Blossom
- Wolfgang Staudte Award:
- Tizza Covi for Babooska
- Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas:
- Matthias Glasner for The Free Will
- Femina-Film-Prize:
- Yasmin Khalifa for Bye Bye Berlusconi!
- Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost":
- Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion
- Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung":
- Shion Sono for Strange Circus
- Reader Jury of the "Siegessäule":
- Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls
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