65th Berlin International Film Festival awards – winners

Tonight was the official closing night awards ceremony for the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

The night's top prize, the Golden Bear for Best Film, went to Taxi by Jafar Panahi. Because Panahi has been unable to leave Iran after his 2010 conviction on charges of "making propaganda," the award was accepted on his behalf by his young niece Hanna Saeidi. The International Jury consisted of Darren Aronofsky (President), Daniel Brühl, Bong Joon-ho, Martha De Laurentiis, Claudia Llosa, Audrey Tautou and Matthew Weiner.

The Best Director Silver Bear was shared by Radu Jude for Aferim! and Małgorzata Szumowska for Body. Both acting Silver Bears went to Andrew Haigh's 45 Years stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Patricio Guzmán won the Best Script prize for his film El botón de nácar (The Pearl Button)

64th Berlin International Film Festival awards – winners

The 64th Berlin International Film Festival (or Berlinale) drew to a close with an award ceremony tonight in which they announced the winners of the Golden Bear and Silver Bears. The top prize Golden Bear went to the Chinese film Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) by Diao Yinan. The film's lead actor Liao Fan also picked up a Silver Bear for Best Actor.

Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. The Silver Bear for Best Director went to Richard Linklater for Boyhood. The film Boyhood had also been the winner of the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas, and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award.

Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) by Alain Resnais picked up the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives. Haru Kuroki won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her work in Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House) by Yoji Yamada. Dietrich Brüggemann and Anna Brüggemann won the Silver Bear for Best Script for writing Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) which Dietrich Brüggemann directed.

2012 Berlinale Awards - winners

As the 62nd Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlin International Film Festival) or Berlinale draws to a close, the awards were handed out a closing gala ceremony. Among the attendees were Jury President Mike Leigh and members of the International Jury Anton Corbijn, Asghar Farhadi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jake Gyllenhaal, François Ozon, Boualem Sansal and Barbara Sukow.

The winner of the Golden Bear for the best film was Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die). It also won the competition category for the Ecumenical Prize.

The Jury Grand Prix-Silver Bear went to Bence Fliegauf's Csak a szél (Just The Wind). It earned a pair of others, taking the Peace Film Award and the Amnesty International Film Prize.