Teddy Award Winner

2026: Special award: Céline Sciamma

2025: Special award: Todd Haynes

2024: Special award: Lothar Lambert

2023: Special award: Andriy Khalpakhchi & Bohdan Zhuk - Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist"

2021: Special award: Jenni Olson

2019: Special award: Falk Richter

2017: Special award: Monika Treut

2016: Special award: Christine Vachon

2015: Special award: Udo Kier

2014: Special award: Rosa von Praunheim

2013: Special award: STEPS for the Future

2012: Special award: Ulrike Ottinger and Mario Montez

2011: Special award: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Evita Bezuidenhout

2010: Special award: Werner Schroeter

2009: Special award: Joe Dallesandro, John Hurt

2008: Special Award: Keith Collins, Simon Fisher Turner, Isaac Julien, James Mackay and Tilda Swinton, who as a family as combatants and allies of British filmmaker Derek Jarman have looked after his heritage.

2007: Special award: Helmut Berger for his whole lifework

2004: Special award: Edition Salzgeber

2003: Special award: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

2001: Special award: Moritz de Hadeln

1999: Jury award: to all German gay-lesbian Berlinale films 1999

1998: Special award: Richard O'Brien - Special Mention: Un©ut – John Greyson

1997: Special award: Romy Haag

1996: Jury award: Jerry Tartaglia for the Konservierung of the films from Jack Smith

1988: Jury award: Tilda Swinton

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All the winning films: