Teddy Award

Teddy Award
The 2017 Special Teddy Award trophy for Monika Treut at the Altonaer Museum
Awarded forBest LGBT-related film
CountryGermany
Presented byBerlin International Film Festival
First awarded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Websitewww.teddyaward.tv

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). For the most part, the jury consists of organisers of gay and lesbian film festivals, who view films screened in all sections of the Berlinale; films do not have to have been part of the festival's official competition stream to be eligible for Teddy awards. 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.