Silver Bear for Best Actress

By: Mayukh Sen

It’s staggering to see how many of these films aren’t on the database.

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, Goraczka
1982: Katrin Sass, Bürgschaft für ein Jahr
1983: Jewgenija Gluschenko, Wljubljon po sobstvennomu zhelaniju
1984: Inna Churikova, Военно-полевой роман/Wartime Romance
1985: Jo Kennedy, Wrong World
1986: Charlotte Valandrey, Rouge baiser & Marcelia Cartaxo, Hour of the Star
1987: Ana Beatriz, Nogueira Vera
1988: Holly Hunter, Broadcast News
1989: Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel
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

• 01
  A Woman Is a Woman
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 02
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 03
  She and He
  Susumu Hani
• 04
  Shakespeare Wallah
  James Ivory
• 05
  Lord Love a Duck
  George Axelrod
• 06
  Les biches
  Claude Chabrol
• 07
  Brothel No. 8
  Kei Kumai
• 08
  Opening Night
  John Cassavetes
• 09
  The Marriage of Maria Braun
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 10
  Solo Sunny
  Konrad Wolf
• 11
  Hour of the Star
  Suzana Amaral
• 12
  Broadcast News
  James L. Brooks
• 13
  Camille Claudel
  Bruno Nuytten
• 14
  Center Stage
  Stanley Kwan
• 15
  Ladybird, Ladybird
  Ken Loach
• 16
  My Man
  Bertrand Blier
• 17
  The English Patient
  Anthony Minghella
• 18
  Central Station
  Walter Salles
• 19
  Aimée & Jaguar
  Max Färberböck
• 20
  The Legend of Rita
  Volker Schlöndorff
• 21
  Intimacy
  Patrice Chéreau
• 22
  Monster's Ball
  Marc Forster
• 23
  The Hours
  Stephen Daldry
• 24
  Monster
  Patty Jenkins
• 25
  Maria Full of Grace
  Joshua Marston
• 26
  Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
  Marc Rothemund
• 27
  Requiem
  Hans-Christian Schmid
• 28
  Yella
  Christian Petzold
• 29
  Happy-Go-Lucky
  Mike Leigh
• 30
  Everyone Else
  Maren Ade
• 31
  Caterpillar
  Kôji Wakamatsu