2014 Berlin International Film Festival Award Winners (Berlinale)

In all the heat of the current Oscar season, I have fallen behind on my coverage of the early film festivals. I did a bit for Sundance, but have completely missed any coverage of what was coming out of Berlin. First, this year's Oscar contender The Square takes home another award, angling itself as this year's "social message doc". But the real contenders emerging are for next year's Oscars. Boyhood, after landing at Sundance takes home a few awards here, including the Best Director prize for Richard Linklater. The other, and the one I should have done a separate post about is Wes Anderson's latest The Grand Budapest Hotel. His Moonrise Kingdom landed him an Oscar nod for Best Original Screenplay. The reviews so far are great, and after the heat from this current season dies down, I will start to dive fully into the early contenders for next year's awards. And The Grand Budapest Hotel will most likely lead the conversation. Check out the full list of winners below:

PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
Golden Bear: "Black Coal, Thin Ice," Diao Yinan
Grand Jury Prize: "The Grand Budapest Hotel," Wes Anderson
Alfred Bauer Prize (for opening new perspectives): "Life of Riley," Alain Resnais
Best Director: Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
Best Actress: Haru Kuroki, "The Little House"
Best Actor: Liao Fan, "Black Coal, Thin Ice"
Best Screenplay: Dietrich and Anna Brüggemann, "Stations of the Cross"
Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Zeng Jian (cinematographer), "Blind Massage"

BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD
"Güeros," Alonso Ruizpalacios

PRIZES OF THE GENERATION JURIES

Children’s Jury Generation Kplus
Crystal Bear: "The Fort," Avinash Arun
Special Mention: "Joy of Man's Desiring," Masakazu Sugita
Best Short Film: "Sprout," Ga-eun Yoon
Special Mention: "On Stopping the Rain," Aditya Ahmad

International Jury Generation Kplus
Grand Prix: "Natural Sciences," Matías Lucchesi
Special Mention: "The Fort," Avinash Arun
Best Short Film: "My Own Personal Moose," Leonid Shmelkov
Special Mention: "Away," Roland Ferge

Youth Jury Generation
Crystal Bear: "52 Tuesdays," Sophie Hyde
Special Mention: "Arctic," Gabri Velázquez
Best Short Film: "Mike," Petros Silvestros
Special Mention: "Emo (The Musical)," Neil Triffett

International Jury
Grand Prix: "Violet," Bas Devos
Special Mention: "Einstein and Einstein," Cao Baoping
Best Short Film: "Winter Morning," Sakaris Stórá
Special Mention: "Son," Kristoffer Kiørb

PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Competition: "Stations of the Cross," Dietrich Brüggemann
Special Mention: "'71," Yann Demange
Panorama: "Calvary," John Michael McDonagh
Special Mention: "Triptych," Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires
Forum: "At Home," Athanasios Karanikolas

PRIZES OF THE FIPRESCI JURY
Competition: "Life of Riley," Alain Resnais
Panorama: "The Way He Looks," Daniel Ribeiro
Forum: "Forma," Ayumi Sakamoto

PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS
"Boyhood," Richard Linklater

CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD
Panorama: "The Lamb," Kutlu? Ataman
Forum: "She's Lost Control," Anja Marquardt

LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS"Blind," Eskil Vogt

TEDDY AWARDS
Best Feature Film: "The Way He Looks," Daniel Ribeiro
Best Documentary/Essay Film: "The Circle," Stefan Haupt
Best Short Film: "Mondial 2010" Roy Dib
Teddy Jury Award: "Pierrot Lunaire," Bruce LaBruce

MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP
"Intershop," Sandra Kaudelka and "274," Sebastian Mez

FGYO - AWARD DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE
"Anywhere Else," Ester Amrami
Special Mention: "Fog," Nicole Vögele

CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
"The Great Museum," Johannes Holzhausen

NETPAC PRIZE
"A Dream of Iron," Kelvin Kyung Kun Park and "Non-Fiction Diary," Jung Yoon-suk

PEACE FILM PRIZE
"We Come as Friends," We Come as Friends

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE
"The Square," Jehane Noujaim

CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE
"Concerning Violence," Göran Hugo Olsson

HEINER CAROW PRIZE
"My Mother, a War and Me," Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt

THINK:FILM AWARD
"Provenance," Amie Siegel

READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS
Panorama Audience Award (Fiction): "Difret" Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Panorama Audience Award (Documentary): "The Circle," Stefan Haupt
Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award: "Boyhood," Richard Linklater
Tagesspiegel Readers' Jury Award: "Velvet Terrorists," Pavol Pekar?ík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes
Else-Siegessaule Readers' Jury Award: "52 Tuesdays," Sophie Hyde