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German Film Award for Best Fiction Film

German film award

The German Film Award for Best Fiction Film () is the main award given for best German film at the annual Deutscher Filmpreis awards, the German national film awards. It has been held annually since 1951 in varying formats. As the constitution said the prize was only awarded, if outstanding achievement was given, not every year a film was declared the winner of the prize. For the first three years, the Golden Candlestick was the highest honour for this category. It was then replaced by the Golden Bowl as a Challenge Prize, that would be passed to the winner of the next occasion, however as it was not given out for 17 years, the prize was abandoned for good in 1996. Regular prize winners receive a Film Award in Gold whereas the runners-up receive a silver award. A bronze award for the second runner-up was introduced in 2008. On some occasions, no film received the gold prize and a winner of the Silver Award was declared the best film of the year.

List of winning films

1951–1986

From 1951 to 1986 the prize was awarded by a commission which selected the best German feature film released in the previous 12 months.

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Trophy received
1951	Two Times Lotte	Das doppelte Lottchen		Golden Candlestick
1952
1953		Nights on the Road aka The Mistress	Nachts auf den Straßen		Golden Candlestick
1954	No Way Back	Weg ohne Umkehr		Golden Bowl
1955	Canaris: Master Spy	Canaris
1956
1957	The Captain from Köpenick	Der Hauptmann von Köpenick		Golden Bowl
1958	The Devil Strikes at Night	Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam
1959	Arms and the Man	Helden
1960	The Bridge	Die Brücke
1961
1962	The Bread of Those Early Years	Das Brot der frühen Jahre		Film Award in Silver
1963	**	Die endlose Nacht
The Lightship	Das Feuerschiff
1964	The River Line	Kennwort... Reiher		Film Award in Gold
1965	The House in Karp Lane	Das Haus in der Karpfengasse
1966	Young Törless	Der junge Törless
1967	Yesterday Girl	Abschied von gestern
1968	Tattoo	Tätowierung
1969	Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed	Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos
1970	Katzelmacher
Malatesta
1971	First Love
**
1972	Trotta
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King
1973	The Experts	Die Sachverständigen		Golden Bowl
1974	The Pedestrian	Der Fußgänger
1975	Lina Braake		Film Award in Silver
1976	**	Es herrscht Ruhe im Land		Golden Bowl
1977	**
1978	The Glass Cell	Die gläserne Zelle		Film Award in Gold
1979	The Tin Drum	Die Blechtrommel		Golden Bowl
1980	**	Die letzten Jahre der Kindheit		Film Award in Silver
1981	**	Jede Menge Kohle	Adolf Winkelmann	Film Award in Gold
1982	Marianne and Juliane	Die bleierne Zeit
1983	The State of Things	Der Stand der Dinge
1984	Where the Green Ants Dream	Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
1985	Colonel Redl	Oberst Redl

1986–present

Year	English title	Original title
1986	Rosa Luxemburg
1987
1988	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin
1989	Yasemin
1990	Last Exit to Brooklyn	Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn
1991	Malina
1992	Schtonk!
1993
1994	**
1995	Maybe... Maybe Not	Der bewegte Mann
1996	Deathmaker	Der Totmacher
1997	**	Rossini – oder die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem schlief
1998	The Harmonists	Comedian Harmonists
1999	Run Lola Run	Lola rennt
2000	No Place to Go	Die Unberührbare
2001	The State I Am In	Die innere Sicherheit
2002	Nowhere in Africa	Nirgendwo in Afrika
2003	Good Bye, Lenin!
2004	Head-On	Gegen die Wand
2005	Go for Zucker	Alles auf Zucker!
2006	The Lives of Others	Das Leben der Anderen
2007	Four Minutes	Vier Minuten
2008	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite
2009	John Rabe
2010	The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band
2011	Vincent Wants to Sea	Vincent will Meer
2012	Stopped on Track	Halt auf freier Strecke
2013	A Coffee in Berlin	Oh Boy
2014	Home from Home	Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht
2015	Victoria	Victoria
2016	The People vs. Fritz Bauer	Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer
2017	Toni Erdmann	Toni Erdmann
2018	3 Days in Quiberon	3 Tage in Quiberon
2019	Gundermann	Gundermann
2020	System Crasher	Systemsprenger
2021	I'm Your Man	Ich bin dein Mensch
2022	Dear Thomas	Lieber Thomas
2023	The Teachers' Lounge	Das Lehrerzimmer
2024	Dying	Sterben
2025	September 5	September 5

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