1st Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear awards: The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: 1st Berlin International Film Festival The 1st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 6 to 17 June 1951. The opening film was Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca". At this very first Berlin Festival, the Golden Bear award was introduced, and it was awarded to the best film in each of five categories: drama, comedy, crime or adventure, music film, and documentary. This system disappeared already the following year, partly because films that year were voted on by the audience. The following people were announced as being on the jury
38th Berlin International Film Festival 38th Berlin International Film Festival The 38th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 12 to 23, 1988. The festival opened with musical film "Linie 1" by Reinhard Hauff. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film "Red Sorghum" directed by Zhang Yimou. The retrospective dedicated to dedicated to colour films titled "The History of Colour Film" was shown at the festival. Originally German actor Gert Fröbe was selected as Jury President but later he had to decline due to illness, after which Moritz de Hadeln appointed the Italian film critic Guglielmo Biraghi as the Jury President.