Directors of Golden Bear winners

Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)

Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)

Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)

Czech American director, screenwriter, and professor (1932–2018)

American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer (1912–1996)

Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)

Italian film director (1901-1974)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)

American director, producer and screenwriter (1924–2011)

American filmmaker (1925–2006)

British film director (1908–1991)

German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)

Iranian screenwriter and film director

Iranian film director

American film director and screenwriter (born 1943)

prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival

French film director (1930–2010)

Spanish photographer and film director (1932–2023)

Chinese filmmaker

Paul Thomas Anderson, also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. Often described as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation, he is the recipient of three Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, four BAFTAs, three Critics Choice Awards, and nominations for a Grammy. He is the only person to have won the Academy Award for Best Director and directorial prizes at Europe's three major film festivals: Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to those accolades, he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer

Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter (1929–1989)

Bosnian film director

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.

French film director (1941–2021)

Czech film director, actor, director, scriptwriter, writer and university educator (1938-2020)

French film director, screenwriter and producer (1907–1977)

German filmmaker (born 1973)

English film and stage director (1926–2003)

English writer and film director (born 1955)

French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (1944-2013)

Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor

Italian film directors and screenwriters

Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (1928—1997)

Soviet film director and screenwriter (1938—1979)

Brazilian film director, screenwriter and film producer

German-born American film director (1900-1973)

American film director and film producer

Hungarian film director, screenwriter

British film director (born 1961)

Irish playwright and filmmaker

French film director (1909–1989)

Hungarian screenwriter and film director (born 1931)

Swedish film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and film editor

Iranian filmmaker (born 1972)

Soviet and Russian film director and film screenwriter (1934–2023)

Peruvian film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1976)

Romanian film director

French-Senegalese actress and film director (born 1982)

Turkish film director and producer (born 1963)

Japanese film director (1912–1991)

Spanish film director, screenwriter (1986-)

Canadian film and television director (1931–2025)

Italian documentary filmmaker (born 1964)

Israeli writer and film director

American film director (1906–1988)

Romanian film director