Tags: Film Festival.
The 1st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 6 to June 17 1951. The opening film was Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca.At this very first Berlin Festival the Golden Bear award was introduced and it was awarded to the best film in each of five categories: drama comedy crime or adventure music film and documentary. This system disappeared already the following year partly due to the fact that films that year were voted on by the audience.