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Silver Bear For Best Actor
The Silver Bear for Best Actor (german: Silberner Bär/Bester Darsteller) was an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival from 1956 to 2020. It was given to an actor 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 the 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, Burt Lancaster was the first winner of this award for his performance in ''Trapeze'', and Elio Germano was the last winner in this category, for his role in '' Hidden Away'' at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. History The award was first presented in 1956 and can be for lead or supporting roles. The prize was not awarded on three occasions (1969, 1973, and 1974). In 1970, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of the " Big Three" alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival in France. Tens of thousands of visitors attend each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale juries also give many other awards, and in addition there are other awards given by i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom". Throughout his career spanning over four decades, Washington has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and two Silver Bears. In 2016, he received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2020, ''The New York Times'' named him the greatest actor of the 21st century. In 2022, Washington received the Presidential Medal of Freedom bestowed upon him by President Joe Biden. Washington started his acting career in theatre, acting in performances off-Broadway, including William Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' in 1979. He first came to prominence in the medical drama '' St. Elsewhere'' (1982–1988). Washington's early film roles included Norman Jewison's '' A Soldier's Story'' (1984) and Richard Attenborough's ''Cry Freedom'' (1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13th Berlin International Film Festival
The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963. The Golden Bear was awarded ''ex aequo'' to the Italian film ''Il diavolo'' directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro and Japanese film '' Bushidô zankoku monogatari'' directed by Tadashi Imai. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Wendy Toye, actress and director (United Kingdom) - Jury President * Harry R. Sokal, producer (West Germany) * Fernando Ayala, director, screenwriter and producer (Argentina) * Jean-Pierre Melville, director and screenwriter (France) * Baldev Raj Chopra, director and producer (India) * Guglielmo Biraghi, journalist and film critic (Italy) * Masatora Sakurai (Japan) * Karl Malden, actor (United States) * Günther Engels (West Germany) International documentary and short jury * T.O.S. Benson, minister of culture (Nigeria) - Jury President * Charles Boost, illustrator and writer (Netherlands) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12th Berlin International Film Festival
The 12th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June – 3 July 1962. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film '' A Kind of Loving'' directed by John Schlesinger. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * King Vidor, director, screenwriter and producer (United States) - Jury President * André Michel, director and screenwriter (France) * Emeric Pressburger, director, screenwriter and producer (United Kingdom) * Hideo Kikumori, film critic (Japan) * Dolores del Río, actress (Mexico) * Jurgen Schildt, film critic (Sweden) * Max Gammeter, president of Filmgilde Biel (Switzerland) * Günther Stapenhorst, producer (West Germany) * Bruno E. Werner, writer and art critic (West Germany) International documentary and short jury * Olavi Linnus, writer and screenwriter (Finland) - Jury President * Dorothy Macpherson, art film curator (Canada) * Abdellah Masbahi, screenwriter (Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Love For Johnnie
''No Love for Johnnie'' is a 1961 British drama film in CinemaScope directed by Ralph Thomas. It was based on the 1959 book of the same title by the Labour Member of Parliament Wilfred Fienburgh, and stars Peter Finch. It depicts the disillusionment and cynicism of a rebellious leftist Labour MP, who seeks escape in a relationship with a younger woman. The film had its world premiere on 9 February 1961 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End. It has been called Thomas' best film. Plot Johnnie Byrne, a cynical and burnt-out Yorkshire Labour MP, whose career has seemingly stalled due to his ostensibly leftist leanings, is re-elected with the victorious Labour Party after a general election. Bitter not to receive an invitation to join the Government, his left-wing wife leaves him, and he accepts an invitation to lead a conspiratorial group of MPs working against the centrist government. Mary, the single woman upstairs, adores him, but they never quite become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11th Berlin International Film Festival
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 4 July 1961. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian film ''La notte'' directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * James Quinn, producer (United Kingdom) - Jury President * France Roche, journalist, film critic, actress and screenwriter (France) * Marc Turfkruyer, film critic (Belgium) * Satyajit Ray, director (India) * Gian Luigi Rondi, film critic (Italy) * Hirotsugu Ozaki, theatre critic (Japan) * Nicholas Ray, director (United States) * Falk Harnack, director and screenwriter (West Germany) * Hans Schaarwächter, journalist and writer (West Germany) International documentary and short jury * Willem de Vogel, actor (Netherlands) - Jury President * Else Goelz, journalist (West Germany) * Mohammed Gamal Eldin Rifaat, (United Arab Emirates) * Luis Gómez Mesa, film critic and writer (Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inherit The Wind (1960 Film)
''Inherit the Wind'' is a 1960 American film based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. The film was directed by Stanley Kramer. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady. It also features Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Florence Eldridge, and Jimmy Boyd. The script was adapted by Nedrick Young (originally as Nathan E. Douglas) and Harold Jacob Smith. Stanley Kramer was commended for bringing in writer Nedrick Young, as the latter was blacklisted and forced to use the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. ''Inherit the Wind'' is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss McCarthyism. Written in response to the chilling effect of the McCarthy era investigations on intellectual discourse, the film (like the play) is critical of creationism. A television remake of the film which star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Berlin International Film Festival
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Spanish film ''El Lazarillo de Tormes'' directed by César Fernández Ardavín. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Harold Lloyd, actor, director and producer (United States) - Jury President * Georges Auric, composer (France) * Henry Reed, composer (United Kingdom) * Sohrab Modi, actor, director and producer (India) * Floris Luigi Ammannati, director of the Venice Film Festival (Italy) * Hidemi Ima, director (Japan) * Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, philologist and historiographer (Spain) * Frank Wisbar, director and screenwriter (West Germany) * Georg Ramseger, writer (West Germany) * Werner R. Heymann, composer (West Germany) * Eva Staar (West Germany) International documentary and short jury * Johannes Eckardt, film curator (West Germany) - Jury President * Tahar Cheriaa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archimède Le Clochard
''Archimède le clochard'' is a 1959 French drama film directed by Gilles Grangier. It is also known as ''The Magnificent Tramp''. The film was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival, where Jean Gabin won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. Plot A sophisticated tramp lives during summer in a half-finished construction site. Because he doesn't want to be cold in the winter, he decides to get imprisoned on time. Therefore, he demolishes a bar but he is only incarcerated for a single week. He promises he will find a way to come back. Cast * Jean Gabin as Joseph Hugues Guillaume Boutier-Blainville aka Archimède * Paul Frankeur as Monsieur Grégoire, the first inn keeper * Darry Cowl as Arsène, the second inn keeper * Bernard Blier as Monsieur Pichon, the new inn keeper * Dora Doll as Madame Pichon * Gaby Basset as Mme Grégoire * Sacha Briquet as Jean-Loup, the English guest * Guy Decomble as the RATP station manager * Albert Dinan as the caterer * Noël Roquevert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Berlin International Film Festival
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to the French film '' Les Cousins'' directed by Claude Chabrol. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Robert Aldrich, director (United States) - Jury President * Johan Jacobsen, director, screenwriter and producer (Denmark) * Charles Ford, writer and filmmaker (France) * John Bryan, production designer (United Kingdom) * Ignazio Tranquilli, writer and playwright (Italy) * Shigeo Miyata, painter and physician (Japan) * Wali Eddine Sameh, director (United Arab Emirates) * O. E. Hasse, actor (West Germany) * Gerhard Prager, writer and producer (West Germany) * Fritz Podehl, producer (West Germany) * Walther Schmieding, jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Defiant Ones (film)
''The Defiant Ones'' is a 1958 American adventure drama film which tells the story of two escaped prisoners, one white and one black, who are shackled together and who must co-operate in order to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier. The film was adapted by Harold Jacob Smith from the story by Nedrick Young, originally credited as Nathan E. Douglas. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer. The film was highly regarded at the time of its release; it won Academy Awards for Cinematography (Black-and-White) and Original Screenplay and was nominated for seven others, including Best Picture and Best Actor for both Poitier and Curtis. Poitier won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival. Plot One night in the Southern United States, a truck loaded with prisoners swerves to avoid another truck and crashes through a barrier. The rescuers clear up the debris and discover two prisoners have escaped, a black man shackled to a white man b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8th Berlin International Film Festival
The 8th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 27 June to 8 July 1958 with the Zoo Palast as the main venue. The festival was opened by then West Berlin's newly elected mayor Willy Brandt. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Swedish film '' Smultronstället'' directed by Ingmar Bergman. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Frank Capra, director, screenwriter and producer (United States) - Jury President * Joaquim Novais Teixeira, politician, writer and film critic (Portugal) * Jean Marais, actor (France) * Paul Rotha, director (United Kingdom) * L. B. Rao (India) * Duilio Coletti, director and screenwriter (Italy) * Michiko Tanaka, actress (Japan) * Gerhard T. Buchholz, director, screenwriter and producer (West Germany) * Willy Haas, writer (West Germany) * Gerhard Lamprecht, director, screenwriter and producer (West Germany) * Leopold Reitemeister, art historian (West Germany) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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