On February 25, the 74th Berlin Film Festival announced the winners! Mati Diop's documentary "Dahomey" won the Golden Bear for Best Picture, and "Winter Soldier" Sebastian Stan won this year's Best Film Award for his film "A Different Man" Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Actor. Two Chinese films - Qiu Yang's "The Woman in the Empty Room" and Zhang Wenqian's "Hot Afternoon" - won awards in their respective categories.
The complete list of winners of the 2024 Berlin Film Festival (as follows)
Main Competition Section
Best Film/Golden Bear Award: "Dahomey", directed by Mati Diop
Jury Prize/Silver Bear Award: "Traveler's Needs" ", directed by Hong Chang-soo
Best Director/Silver Bear: Nelson Arias "Pepe"
Jury Prize/Silver Bear: "Empire", directed by Bruno Dumont
Best Leading Role/Silver Bear : Sebastian Stan "A Different Man"
Best Supporting Actor/Silver Bear Award: Emily Watson "Little Things Like This"
Best Screenplay/Silver Bear Award: Matthias Glass Na "Death Movement"
Outstanding Artistic Contribution/Silver Bear Award: "The Devil's Bath" Photography Martin Chalgi
Adventure Section
Best Film: "Direct Action", directed by Guillaume Caillaux, Ben Russell
Best Director: Juliana Rochas "City, Field"
Special Jury Award: "The Woman in the Empty Room", directed by Qiu Yang & "The Great Yawn", directed by Arial Rusty
Most Best Documentary: "The Only Land", directed by Basil Adela, Hamdan Bilal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Sear
Documentary Special Mention: "Direct Action", directed by Guillaume M. Kayo, Ben Russell
Best First Feature Film: "Can You Put on Your Pajamas", directed by Fan Yulin
Best Short Film Golden Bear Award: "A Strange Twist", directed by Francisco Lessa Jury Prize/Silver Bear for short films: "Hot Afternoon", directed by Zhang Wenqian
Short Film Special Mention: "All About Me", directed by Eva Kneimann
It is worth mentioning that Sebastian ·From Marvel's "Winter Soldier" to Berlin Film Festival Best Actor, Stan's career is becoming more and more perfect! When he took the stage to receive the trophy, he said excitedly: "I am very grateful and deeply honored. This is my first time to participate in the European Film Festival. For a little boy from Romania, this means a lot to me."
movie The Chinese title of "Different Men" is also translated as "Different Men". It is a psychological thriller produced by a24. Directed and written by Aaron Schmidberg ("Life Bound"), starring Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsoff, Adam Pearson and others. In the film, Sebastian Stan plays a disfigured man who, after undergoing a series of facial reconstruction surgeries, has a new face.
After winning the award, Sebastian Stan also said that "Different Men" is about acceptance, identity and self-truth, and it is also about the long-neglected topic of facial defects and physical defects.
Finally, congratulations to Sebastian Stan again, I hope he can create more and better movie characters in the future!
