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Directors with the Most Films in Contention for the Golden Bear
This list features filmmakers that have had the most films in connection for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
RANK | DIRECTOR | FILMS IN CONTENTION | WINS | WINNING FILM | COUNTRY |
1 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 9 | 1 | Veronika Voss (1982) | West Germany |
2 | Jean-Luc Godard | 9 | 1 | Alphaville (1965) | France, Italy |
3 | Michael Winterbottom | 7 | 1 | In This World (2003) | United Kingdom |
4 | Satyajit Ray | 7 | 1 | The Distant Thunder (1973) | India |
5 | Bertrand Tavernier | 6 | 1 | The Bait (1995) | France |
6 | Carlos Saura | 6 | 1 | Deprisa, deprisa (1981) | Spain |
7 | Claude Chabrol | 6 | 1 | Les Cousins (1959) | France |
8 | François Ozon | 6 | 0 | — | France |
9 | Andrzej Wajda | 6 | 0 | — | Poland |
10 | Kei Kumai | 6 | 0 | — | Japan |
11 | Hong Sang-soo | 6 | 0 | — | South Korea |
References
Wikipedia contributors, 2025. Golden Bear. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bear#Multiple_winners [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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