Like the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale awards ceremony focuses on the ceremony, not the ceremony. There are no humorous jokes, no singing and dancing performances, just the awarding of awards according to the process, and the focus is always on the art creators, hoping that the media and the audience can pay more attention to the art itself, and then promote the development of film art.

At the Berlin Film Festival, the main awards are the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear.

The Golden Bear Award is the highest award, which is awarded to five different departments, including feature films, documentaries, science and education films, art films, and short films, among which the Golden Bear Award in the general sense of major media refers to the feature film department, which is also the top priority of the annual film festival, and the Palme d'Or in Cannes and the Golden Lion Award in Venice are known as the grand slam of European films.

As of 2012, only two directors in history have won the Grand Slam, the top award: Michelangelo-Antonioni of Italy and Robert-Altman of the United States.

The Silver Bear Award is divided into two parts, one is the second place in the competition feature film, that is, the Grand Jury Prize, and the final trophy is a Silver Bear, and the other part is the highest award for the individual, which is awarded to the director, actor, actress, screenwriter, music, cinematography, art, etc.

Also until 2012, there are four winners of the Grand Slam of individual awards at the three major European film festivals in history, director Paul Thomas Anderson, actors Jake-Lemmon and Sean Penn, and actress Juliette Binoche.

In addition, the Berlinale has also officially set up different thematic sections, such as the Teddy Bear Award, which focuses on gay works, and the Crystal Bear Award, which focuses on young people, in order to encourage filmmakers to pay more attention to these groups when creating.

The Golden Bear Award, which is undoubtedly an award that every work strives for, is also the most important affirmation of a work, equivalent to the Oscar for Best Picture. However, the competition for this year's Golden Bear Award seems to be a little overwhelming.

In recent years, the overall momentum of the Berlinale has not improved much, and it has been struggling to survive in the cracks, not only the list of participants in the competition unit is dim, but also the overall quality and reputation of the participating artworks are also slowly declining, and the average level of the Golden Bear Award is really unsatisfactory.

The last time the artistry of the Golden Bear was recognized around the world was in 2003. At that time, many works such as "Between the Worlds", "25 Hours", "Moment by Moment", "Goodbye Lenin", "Adapted Plays", "Death Poems", and "Twilight Seibei" were highly recognized, and each work had the possibility of winning, and has since been recognized in Europe and even the world.

That year, the biggest favourite, "Moment", eventually lost to "On Earth", which caused an exclamation, but the latter also received praise in Europe.

But the good times are hard to recreate.

In addition, "War Wizard", "Child on the Mountain", "Grace", "Royal Style/History", "Goodbye, My Queen", "Just the Wind" and "Caesar Must Die" and other works have similar house book scores, and there are not many surprises in media feedback, and there is a lack of a bright spot overall.

It is precisely because of this that "detachment" has become a media darling and an audience darling. Not only because of the attention effect brought by Lan Li, but also because of Tony Kaye's crazy and bold, experimental pseudo-documentary shooting method, which triggered people's extreme emotional response, like the collision of spear and shield, the sparks were overwhelming.

Since there is no focus work with a strong reputation, it is better to choose a work that makes people curious.

Although the rating of the house magazine is not high, thanks to the attention of the media and the enthusiasm of the audience, when people discuss the Golden Bear Award, "detachment" has more or less become one of the reference standards. After all, above the Berlin Film Festival, every work, every actor, and every director in the competition unit is eligible to compete for the corresponding award, and there is no list of nominees.

If nothing else, tonight's awards should be one of these works, including the Golden Bear.

There is no absolute popularity, and there is no absolute popularity.

In previous years, media reporters would always focus on the highest-rated works in the house magazine.

Because among the three major European film festivals, the highest score in the house book is more like a curse, the highest award is always denied it, and the jury always chooses other works, which also causes serious dissatisfaction among journalists and film critics with the jury.

But this year was an exception. Although "Barbara" is the highest rating in the media magazine, critics, journalists, and audiences are far from fanatical about this work, and it seems that it would not be too surprising if other works were to be upset.

Calm, calm and quiet.

This seems to be the best footnote of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival, except for the unexpected frenzy caused by "detachment", there are no surprises, no surprises, and no excitement. A similar atmosphere naturally continued into the last day of the festival.

The award ceremony was not so much a feast as a seminar, lacking an atmosphere of entertainment, but always filled with an atmosphere of academic discussion. Serious and solemn, serious and dull, sure enough, Berlin, as cold and unique as ever.

The first high/high of the whole ceremony came when Meryl Streep took the stage.

This veteran actor who has been in the film industry for more than 30 years, although she still lacks a Venice Film Festival actress trophy in the honor book and has not been able to achieve a grand slam, she enjoys high respect and love all over the world, and her dedication to one classic after another has constantly proved her talent, hard work and dedication.

In this year's North American awards season, Meryl won a record seventeenth Oscar nomination with "Iron Lady" and became a strong candidate in the battle for actresses.

People even jokingly called her a "cancer", not a malicious mockery, but a good-natured ridicule: it seems that every year, as long as Meryl starred in the work, then on the Oscar nomination list, it would not be wrong to check her, which also makes it difficult for rising stars to have a bright future.

While the awards season was in full swing, Meryl took time out of her busy schedule to come to Berlin to receive her first Lifetime Achievement Award.

When Meryl took the stage, the audience gave a standing ovation, offering their heartfelt respect and admiration with the warmest, loudest, and most emotional applause, and in response, Meryl made her own joke, "Well, I hope this is not a sign that the retirement time has come." ”

The audience laughed.

After the first high/high tide, the atmosphere of the scene returned to a peaceful and peaceful state, which was like an electrocardiogram.

The difference is that the ECG is always a straight line, without waves, as if the instrument is not connected, and when Meryl takes the stage, the instrument is finally successfully connected, so the straight line of the ECG begins to have peaks and valleys, and fluctuates violently up and down. Then, at the end of the acceptance speech, the instrument was disconnected again.

Is this a good thing? Maybe not, Cannes, Venice and Toronto are always enviable; Without the entertainment effect, all the attention is focused on the awards.

This may be the original intention of the presiding committee.

The answers to the important awards in each department began to be revealed one after another, and the members of the jury were responsible for presenting the awards, and one by one they took to the stage to announce the winners.

The Best Screenplay Award was awarded to "Royal Family/Flow/History".

The director is the Danish Nicolas Axel, who wrote the original script of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", and this time the script was also written by himself, and invited Max Mikkelsen and Alicia Vikander to star, at this year's Berlin Film Festival, it was well received and won the Best Screenplay Award, which was unexpected but reasonable.

The award for Best Director was awarded to Christian Petzold for "Barbara".

The director, who is now 50 years old, had high hopes of leading German cinema out of the darkness, but as time passed, he dedicated to "Ghost", "Yela", "Yelishaw" and other worthy works, but he was never able to go further.

This year's "Barbara" once again made people shine and received the highest score in the house magazine, but after winning the Best Director Award, it was basically announced that this work was not eligible for the Golden Bear Award. After all, "Barbara" is not "a parting".

The curse of the highest rating of the house book is still valid at the three major European film festivals.

The Grand Jury Prize, won by the Hungarian film "Just the Wind".

This work from Eastern Europe is not outstanding in the house magazine, but the local German media is particularly popular, and the director Benniedek Filigoff is also a young director with a small reputation in Europe, who has been in the industry for ten years, and has dedicated excellent works such as "Son/Palace", "Galaxy Image", "Forest" and so on. A small number of audiences, including Lan Li, are even optimistic that this work will be able to top the Golden Bear Award.

In the end, it is an affirmation that the Grand Jury Prize was successfully awarded, but it is also a pity to put it another way - this is the Silver Bear, not the Golden Bear.

Next up is the Silver Bear for Best Actor and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

At last year's Berlin Film Festival, there was a shocking upset, and the best actor and actress were both awarded to the same work, and not one actor, but collectively awarded:

The four actors and two actresses of "One Parting", this is not just as simple as a double egg yolk, but an affirmation of all the performances of the entire cast team. In Cannes, this is a rare and not surprising situation, but it is Berlin, and it really frightens everyone, including the German media themselves.

What's more, "A Farewell" finally won the Golden Bear Award.

What about these two awards this year?