Best Director

• 1981 Thomas Brasch
  Thomas Brasch
  Thomas Brasch was a German author, poet and film director.- Awards :1981 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Director- Publications :* „Sie geht, sie geht nicht“, Theaterstück, 1970...
  
  , Wolfgang Petersen
  Wolfgang Petersen
  Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...
  
  
• 1982 Percy Adlon
  Percy Adlon
  Percy Adlon is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1983 Peter Schamoni
• 1984 Carl Schenkel
• 1985 Xaver Schwarzenberger
• 1987 Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
  
• 1989 Uli Edel
  Uli Edel
  Uli Edel is a German film director.-Work:After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well...
  
  
• 1991 Percy Adlon
  Percy Adlon
  Percy Adlon is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim.-Biography:...
  
  , Michael Klier
• 1992 Helmut Dziuba, Juraj Herz
• 1993 Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
  
• 1995 Rainer Kaufmann
• 1996 Helmut Dietl
  Helmut Dietl
  Helmut Dietl is a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.- Work :After completion of grammar school in 1958, Dietl studied theatre science and the history of art. Afterwards, he became head of photography and later assistant director to the Munich Kammerspiele theatre...
  
  
• 1997 Joseph Vilsmaier
  Joseph Vilsmaier
  Joseph Vilsmaier is a German film director.-Work:After attending a boarding school near Augsburg, he was trained as a technician to make film cameras and then spent nine years at a music conservatory. Following this he was a member of a jazz group...
  
  , Sönke Wortmann
  Sönke Wortmann
  Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.- Biography :Wortmann’s father was a miner. After Wortmann’s A-Levels he wanted to become a professional football player and started playing with Westfalia Herne at the third best category and with SP Vgg Erkenschwick...
  
  
• 1998 Max Färberböck
• 1999 Rolf Schübel
• 2000 Oliver Hirschbiegel
  Oliver Hirschbiegel
  Oliver Hirschbiegel is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar nominated Der Untergang.- Career :...
  
  
• 2001 Dr. Peter Sehr
• 2002 Andreas Dresen
• 2003 Sönke Wortmann
  Sönke Wortmann
  Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.- Biography :Wortmann’s father was a miner. After Wortmann’s A-Levels he wanted to become a professional football player and started playing with Westfalia Herne at the third best category and with SP Vgg Erkenschwick...
  
  
• 2005 Andreas Dresen
• 2006 Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
  
  
• 2007 Fatih Akın
  Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
  
  

Best New Director

• 1979 Dominik Graf
• 1980 Peter F. Bringmann
• 1985 Wolfram Paulus
  Wolfram Paulus
  Wolfram Paulus is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 19 films since 1981. His 1986 film Heidenlöcher was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• 1986 Peter Timm
• 1988 Nico Hoffmann
• 1988 Robert Sigl
  Robert Sigl
  Robert Sigl is a German film director and writer. He attended the Munich Film School from 1981 until 1986. His short film The Christmas Tree was shown at international festivals in Madrid and Berlin....
  
  
• 1988 Maria Theresia Wagner
• 1989 Uwe Janson
• 1989 Berthold Mittermayr
• 1991 Detlev Buck
  Detlev Buck
  Detlev Buck is a German film director and actor.-Life and work:From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, Erst die Arbeit und dann?, he has remained one of the most important filmmakers working in Germany...
  
  
• 1991 Sherry Hormann
• 1993 Katja von Garnier
  Katja von Garnier
  Katja von Garnier is a German film director.-Biography:From 1989-1994, she studied at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her 1993 practice film Abgeschminkt! was shown in theatres all over Germany and attracted 1.2 million visitors...
  
  
• 1994 Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
  
  
• 1996 Caroline Link
  Caroline Link
  Caroline Link , is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Caroline Link is the daughter of Jürgen and Ilse Link. From 1986 to 1990 she studied at the Munich Academy of Film and Television , and then worked as an assistant director and script writer.Link's early work includes the...
  
  
• 1998 Fatih Akın
  Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
  
  
• 1998 Marc Rothemund
  Marc Rothemund
  Marc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as an assistant for his father and then began to direct episodes for TV series. His first feature film was the 1998 production Das...
  
  
• 1999 Veit Helmer
• 2000 Esther Gronenborn
• 2001 Zoltan Spirandelli
• 2002 Chris Kraus
  Chris Kraus (filmmaker)
  Chris Kraus , born 1963 in Göttingen, is a German author and film director.-Life and work:Chris Kraus was employed as a journalist and illustrator before attending the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1991–98, where he studied film directing...
  
  
• 2006 Marcus H. Rosenmüller
• 2007 Ralf Westhoff