Teddy Award

Teddy Award
Teddy at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival
Awarded for Best LGBT film at the Berlin International Film Festival
Location Berlin
Country Germany
Presented by Berlin International Film Festival
First awarded 1987

The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale). Here, an "independent jury" implies that its members are not officially selected by the committee of the Berlinale. In the most part, the jury consists of organisers of gay and lesbian film festivals, who view films screened in all sections of the Berlinale. Subsequently, a list of films meeting criteria for LGBT content is selected by the jury, and a 3,000-Euro Teddy is awarded to a feature film, a short film and a documentary.

At the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in 2016, a dedicated "Teddy30" lineup of classic LGBT-related films was screened as a full program of the festival to celebrate the award's 30th anniversary.

History

The Teddy Award statue located in the Schwules Museum

In 1987 German filmmakers Wieland Speck and Manfred Salzgeber formed a jury called the International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Association (IGLFFA) to create an award for LGBT films. It was originally named the Teddy Bear Award, in accordance with the Berlinale's main awards being named as the Golden and Silver Bear; the name was later shortened to Teddy Award, although the statuette presented to winners is still shaped like a teddy bear.

The first Teddy Award was given to Pedro Almodóvar for his film La ley del deseo, which featured Antonio Banderas.

The awards were originally founded in a gay bookshop in West Berlin, they were named after the cuddly toys which were sent as prizes to the winners. They were then upgraded to metal trophies but are still thought to be a deliberate parody of the main Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear trophy.[1]

1990 was the first bigger festival in the LGBT centrum SchwuZ in Berlin with around 400 guests. The evening was organized from BeV StroganoV and workers of the bookstore Eisenherz in Berlin. In 1992 the award was officially made part of the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1997 TEDDY e.V., a non-profit organisation was founded, which lobbied the award.

Categories

There are three main categories in which the award is given:

One additional film is singled out for a Jury Award. A Special Award is commonly given for a distinguished achievement in LGBT cinema, such as a career lifetime achievement as a director or performer, or for a person's role in a project of significance to the history of LGBT cinema.

The German LGBT magazine Siegessäule formerly sponsored an award which was given to a film selected by a panel of the magazine's readers. This was discontinued after 2012, but was reinstituted in 2016 under the new sponsorship of the magazine Männer; in 2017, the award was named the Harvey in honour of Harvey Milk.

Past winners

[2]

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

  • Best feature film: All Over Me – Alex Sichel
  • Best documentary: Murder and Murder – Yvonne Rainer
  • Best short film: Heroines of Love – Nathalie Percillier and Lily Besilly
  • Special award: Romy Haag
  • Siegessäule reader award: All Over Me – Alex Sichel

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004[8]

2005

2006

2007

2008

Tilda Swinton, Special-Teddy-Award winner in 2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

References

  1. ↑ Rose, Toby (6 February 2015). "Berlin Film Festival: why the Teddy Awards ceremony is one of the wildest parties on the festival circuit". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-17. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
  7. ↑ "Teddy Award Winner: Trick". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via teddyaward.tv.
  8. ↑ "| Berlinale |" (PDF). Berlinale.de. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  9. ↑ "Berlin: 'The Way He Looks' and 'The Circle' Lead Teddy Award Winners". IndieWire. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 "Berlin: 'Hard Paint' Wins Teddy Award for Best LGBTQ Feature". The Hollywood Reporter, February 23, 2018.
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