50th Berlin International Film Festival

The 50th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 2000. The festival opened with The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders. Bossa Nova by Bruno Barreto, screened out of competition was the closing film of the festival.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Magnolia directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The retrospective titled Artificial People and dedicated to artificial beings and machines in the films was shown at the festival, screening films like The Golem: How He Came into the World and The Terminator. On its 50th anniversary the premieres of the films in competition at the festival moved from Zoo Palast to Theater am Potsdamer Platz located at Potsdamer Platz.

Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:

Main Competition

Gong Li, Chinese actress - Jury President
Lissy Bellaiche, Danish member of the Det Danske Filminstitut
Peter W. Jansen, German scholar and journalist
Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian filmmaker
Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
Jean-Louis Piel, French producer
Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker and producer
Maria Schrader, German actress
Andrzej Wajda, Polish filmmaker

Official Sections

Main Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

Official Awards

Main Competition

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:

Golden Bear: Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson
Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders
Silver Bear Special Jury Prize: The Road Home by Zhang Yimou
Silver Bear for Best Director: Miloš Forman for Man on the Moon
Silver Bear for Best Actress: Bibiana Beglau and Nadja Uhl for The Legend of Rita
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Denzel Washington for The HurricaneSilver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution: The Cast of
Alfred Bauer Prize: Boy's Choir by Akira Ogata

[Honorary Golden Bear]

Jeanne Moreau

Berlinale Camera

Kon Ichikawa
Wolfgang Jacobsen

Independent Awards

Blue Angel Award

The Legend of Rita by Volker Schlöndorff

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Of Woman and Magic by Claude Miller