| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2014 |
|
Thomas Kienast |
The Dark Valley |
| 2013 |
|
John Toll |
Cloud Atlas |
|
Frank Griebe |
Cloud Atlas |
| 2012 |
|
Anna Foerster |
Anonymous |
| 2011 |
|
Daniela Knapp |
Poll Diaries |
| 2010 |
|
Christian Berger |
The White Ribbon |
| 2009 |
|
Kolja Brandt |
North Face |
| 2008 |
|
Benedict Neuenfels |
Love Life |
| 2007 |
|
Frank Griebe |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer |
| 2006 |
|
Hagen Bogdanski |
The Lives of Others |
| 2005 |
|
Hans-Günther Bücking |
Schneeland |
| 2004 |
|
Rainer Klausmann |
Head-On |
| 2003 |
|
Thomas Riedelsheimer |
Rivers and Tides |
| 2002 |
|
Gernot Roll |
Nowhere in Africa |
| 2001 |
|
Gero Steffen |
Female2 Seeks Happy End |
| 2000 |
|
Jürgen Jürges |
Paths in the Night |
| 1999 |
|
Frank Griebe |
Run Lola Run |
| 1998 |
|
Frank Griebe |
Wintersleepers, Trains'n'Roses |
| 1997 |
|
Martin Langer |
14 Tage Lebenslanglich |
| 1996 |
|
Thomas Plenert |
Kalte Heimat |
| 1995 |
|
Jolanta Dylewska |
Marie's Song: I Was I Know Not Where |
| 1994 |
|
Roland Dressel |
Farewell to Agnes |
| 1994 |
|
Jürgen Jürges |
Faraway, So Close! |
| 1993 |
|
Gernot Roll |
Little Sharks, Krücke, My Daughter is Mine |
| 1991 |
|
Robby Müller |
Korczak |
| 1990 |
|
Axel Block |
American Beauty Ltd. |
| 1989 |
|
Thomas Mauch |
Waller's Last Trip |
| 1988 |
|
Henri Alekan |
Wings of Desire |
| 1987 |
|
Gérard Vandenberg |
Caspar David Friedrich |
| 1986 |
|
Wolfgang Simon |
Heidenlöcher |
| 1985 |
|
Jacques Steyn |
Abwärts |
| 1984 |
|
Josef Rusnak |
Cold Fever |
| 1984 |
|
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
Where the Green Ants Dream |
| 1983 |
|
Martin Schafer |
Nothing Left to Lose, The State of Things |
| 1983 |
|
Robby Müller |
Class Enemy |
| 1982 |
|
Wolfgang Dickmann |
The Lite Trap |
| 1980 |
|
Jürgen Jürges |
The Last Years of Childhood, The Children from Number 67 |
| 1980 |
|
Peer Raben |
Purity of Heart, The Ortlieb Woman |
| 1978 |
|
Michael Ballhaus |
Despair |
| 1978 |
|
Ernst Wild |
Rhinegold |
| 1977 |
|
Igor Luther |
The Conquest of the Citadel, Le Coup de grâce |
| 1977 |
|
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
Heart of Glass |
| 1976 |
|
Jost Vacano |
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Dear Fatherland Be at Peace |
| 1975 |
|
Robby Müller |
The Wrong Move |
| 1974 |
|
Charly Steinberger |
Gott schützt die Liebenden, One or the Other of Us |
| 1973 |
|
Michael Ballhaus |
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant |
| 1973 |
|
Thomas Mauch |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God |
| 1972 |
|
Igor Luther |
One |
| 1972 |
|
Jerzy Lipman |
False Weights |
| 1971 |
|
Christian Blackwood |
San Domingo |
| 1971 |
|
Gérard Vandenberg |
Lenz |
| 1970 |
|
Dietrich Lohmann |
A Big Grey-Blue Bird, Katzelmacher, Gods of the Plague, Love Is Colder Than Death |
| 1970 |
|
Willy Pankau |
Malatesta |
| 1969 |
|
Petrus R. Schlömp |
Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? |
| 1968 |
|
Wolfgang Treu |
The Castle |
| 1967 |
|
Franz Rath |
A Degree of Murder |
| 1966 |
|
Gérard Vandenberg |
It |
| 1965 |
|
Heinz Hölscher |
Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| 1964 |
|
Wolf Wirth |
The River Line |
|
Hans Jura |
The River Line |
| 1963 |
|
Hans Jura |
Die endlose Nacht |
| 1962 |
|
Wolf Wirth |
The Bread of Those Early Years |
| 1961 |
|
Günther Anders |
A Glass of Water |
| 1958 |
|
Georg Krause |
The Devil Came at Night |
