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
