Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Silberner Bär (German)
2025 recipient: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Awarded for	Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Country	Germany
Presented by	Berlin International Film Festival
First award	1985
Currently held by	Lucile Hadžihalilović The Ice Tower (2025)
Website	www.berlinale.de

The Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in crafting. Usually awarded to crew members, such as cinematographers, costume designer or editors. ^[1]

Winners

1980s

Year	Recipient	Craft	English Title	Original Title
1985	Tage Danielsson	Artistic Contribution	Ronia, the Robber's Daughter	Ronja Rövardotter
1986	Masahiro Shinoda		Gonza the Spearman	近松門左衛門　鑓の権三
1987	Randa Haines		Children of a Lesser God
1988	Miguel Pereira		Verónico Cruz	Verónico Cruz: La deuda interna
1989	Kaipo Cohen and Gila Almagor	Acting	Aviya's Summer	הקיץ של אביה

1990s

Year	Recipient	English Title	Original Title
1990	Heiner Carow	Coming Out
1992	Pilar Miró	Prince of Shadows	Beltenebros
1993	Temur Babluani	The Sun of the Sleepless	უძინართა მზე
1994	Semyon Aranovich	The Year of the Dog	Год собаки
1996	Andrzej Wajda	Holy Week	Wielki tydzień
1997	Raúl Ruiz	Genealogies of a Crime	Généalogies d'un crime
1998	Alain Resnais	Same Old Song	On connaît la chanson
1999	David Cronenberg	eXistenZ

2000s

Year	Recipient	Craft	English Title	Original Title
2000	Ensemble Cast	Acting	Paradiso: Seven Days with Seven Women [de]	Paradiso – Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen
2001	Raúl Pérez Cubero	Cinematography	You're the One	Una historia de entonces
2002	Female Ensemble Cast	Acting	8 Women	8 femmes
2003	Li Yang	Artistic Contribution	Blind Shaft	盲井
2004	Ensemble Cast	Acting	Daybreak	Om jag vänder mig om
2005	Tsai Ming-liang	Artistic Contribution	The Wayward Cloud	天邊一朵雲
2006	Jürgen Vogel		The Free Will	Der freie Wille
2007	Ensemble Cast	Acting	The Good Shepherd
2008	Jonny Greenwood	Score	There Will Be Blood
2009	György Kovács, Gábor ifj. Erdélyi and Tamás Székely	Sound Design	Katalin Varga

2010s

Year	Recipient	Craft	English Title	Original Title
2010	Pavel Kostomarov	Cinematography	How I Ended This Summer	Как я провёл этим летом
2011	Barbara Enriquez	Production Design	The Prize	El premio
	Wojciech Staron	Cinematography
2012	Lutz Reitemeier		White Deer Plain	白鹿原
2013	Aziz Zhambakiyev		Harmony Lessons	Асланның сабақтары
2014	Zeng Jian		Blind Massage	推拿
2015	Sturla Brandth Grøvlen		Victoria
	Serhiy Mykhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin		Under Electric Clouds	Под электрическими облаками
2016	Mark Lee Ping Bin		Crosscurrent	长江图
2017	Dana Bunescu	Editing	Ana, mon amour
2018	Elena Okopnaya	Costumes and Production Design	Dovlatov	Довлатов
2019	Rasmus Videbæk	Cinematography	Out Stealing Horses	Ut og stjæle hester

2020s

Year	Recipient	Craft	English Title	Original Title
2020	Jürgen Jürges	Cinematography	DAU. Natasha
2021	Yibrán Asuad	Editing	A Cop Movie	Una película de policías
2022	Rithy Panh and Sarit Mang	Artistic Contribution	Everything Will Be Ok
2023	Hélène Louvart	Cinematography	Disco Boy
2024	Martin Gschlacht		The Devil’s Bath	Des Teufels Bad
2025	Lucile Hadžihalilović and creative ensemble	Artistic Contribution	The Ice Tower	La Tour de glace

References

1. "The Berlinale Archive". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

External links

• Berlinale website
• International Film Festival at IMDB