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The Golden Bear
 

The top prize at the Berlin Film Festival

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The Golden Bear is the top prize at the annual Berlin Film Festival, and is awarded to the festival's best film.

British winners are as follows:

1954: Hobson's Choice (d. David Lean)
1962: A Kind of Loving (d. John Schlesinger)
1966: Cul-de-sac (d. Roman Polanski)
1983: Ascendancy (d. Edward Bennett)
1985: Wetherby (d. David Hare)
1994: In the Name of the Father (US/UK/Eire, d. Jim Sheridan)
1996: Sense and Sensibility (US/UK, d. Ang Lee)
2001: Intimacy (UK/France, d. Patrice Chereau)
2002: Bloody Sunday (d. Paul Greengrass) - tie
2003: In This World (d. Michael Winterbottom)

Michael Brooke

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