Silver Bear for Best Actress

The Silver Bear for Best Actress is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actress.

Awards

Year	Actress	Film
1956	Elsa Martinelli	Donatella
1957	Yvonne Mitchell	Woman in a Dressing Gown
1958	Anna Magnani	Wild Is the Wind
1959	Shirley MacLaine	Ask Any Girl
1960	Juliette Mayniel	Kirmes
1961	Anna Karina	Une femme est une femme
1962	Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors	No Exit
1963	Bibi Andersson	Älskarinnan
1964	Sachiko Hidari	Nippon Konchuki and Kanojo to kare
1965	Madhur Jaffrey	Shakespeare Wallah
1966	Lola Albright	Lord Love a Duck
1967	Edith Evans	The Whisperers
1968	Stéphane Audran	Les Biches
1971	Simone Signoret	Le Chat
	Shirley MacLaine	Desperate Characters
1972	Elizabeth Taylor	Hammersmith Is Out
1975	Kinuyo Tanaka	Sandakan hachibanshokan, bohkyo
1976	Jadwiga Barańska	Noce i dnie
1977	Lily Tomlin	The Late Show
1978	Gena Rowlands	Opening Night
1979	Hanna Schygulla	Die Ehe der Maria Braun
1980	Renate Krößner	Solo Sunny
1981	Barbara Grabowska	Gorączka
1982	Katrin Saß	Bürgschaft für ein Jahr
1983	Yevgeniya Glushenko	Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu
1984	Inna Churikova	Voenno-polevoy roman
1985	Jo Kennedy	Wrong World
1986	Charlotte Valandrey	Rouge Baiser
	Marcélia Cartaxo	Hour of the Star
1987	Ana Beatriz Nogueira	Vera
1988	Holly Hunter	Broadcast News
1989	Isabelle Adjani	Camille Claudel
1990	Not awarded	N/A
1991	Victoria Abril	Amantes
1992	Maggie Cheung	Ruan Ling Yu
1993	Michelle Pfeiffer	Love Field
1994	Crissy Rock	Ladybird, Ladybird
1995	Josephine Siao	Nu ren si shi
1996	Anouk Grinberg	Mon homme
1997	Juliette Binoche	The English Patient
1998	Fernanda Montenegro	Central do Brasil
1999	Maria Schrader and Juliane Köhler	Aimée & Jaguar
2000	Bibiana Beglau and Nadja Uhl	Die Stille nach dem Schuß
2001	Kerry Fox	Intimacy
2002	Halle Berry	Monster's Ball
2003	Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore	The Hours
2004	Charlize Theron	Monster
	Catalina Sandino Moreno	Maria Full of Grace
2005	Julia Jentsch	Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
2006	Sandra Hüller	Requiem
2007	Nina Hoss	Yella
2008	Sally Hawkins	Happy-Go-Lucky
2009	Birgit Minichmayr	Alle Anderen
2010	Shinobu Terajima	Caterpillar
2011	Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Kimia Hosseini	Nader and Simin, A Separation
2012	Rachel Mwanza	War Witch

External links

• Berlinale website