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Directors with the Most Wins for the Golden Bear
This list features filmmakers that have won the most Golden Bear awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
RANK | DIRECTOR | FILMS IN CONTENTION | WINS | WINNING FILM(s) | COUNTRY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Ang Lee | 2 | 2 | The Wedding Banquet (1993) Sense and Sensibility (1996) | Taiwan, USA |
2 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 9 | 1 | Veronika Voss (1982) | West Germany |
3 | Jean-Luc Godard | 9 | 1 | Alphaville (1965) | France, Italy |
4 | Michael Winterbottom | 7 | 1 | In This World (2003) | United Kingdom |
5 | Satyajit Ray | 7 | 1 | The Distant Thunder (1973) | India |
6 | Bertrand Tavernier | 6 | 1 | The Bait (1965) | France |
7 | Carlos Saura | 6 | 1 | Deprisa, deprisa (1981) | Spain |
8 | Claude Chabrol | 6 | 1 | Les Cousins (1959) | France |
9 | Sidney Lumet | 5 | 1 | 12 Angry Men (1957) | USA |
10 | Wang Quan’an | 4 | 1 | Tuya’s Marraiage (2007) | China |
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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