Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" takes Berlinale Jury Prize as Richard Linklater wins best director Silver Bear for "Boyhood."

Black Coal, Thin Ice, a Chinese film noir from director Diao Yinan has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

The film's star, Liao Fan, took the Silver Bear honor for Best Actor for his portrayal of a comic, alcoholic detective working in the Chinese provinces.

Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, a star-studded love letter to pre-WWII Europe, won the Grand Jury Prize, the Berlinale's runner-up honor, while Richard Linklater's Boyhood, a coming-of-age tale shot over 12 years with the same actors - including Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, won the Best Director Silver Bear.

But it was China's night, as the Berlinale International Jury, headed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter and ex-Focus Features CEO James Schamus, handed out three top trophies to Chinese films. In addition to the two for Black Coal, Thin Ice, there was a Silver Bear for Lou Ye's drama Blind Massage honoring "extraordinary artistic achievement." Schamus wrote the screenplay to The Wedding Banquet and has been a frequent collaborator with Ang Lee, penning the scripts to such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution.

Black Coal, Thin Ice is the first Chinese film to win top honors in Berlin since Wang Quan'an's  Tuya's Wedding in 2007. But Berlin has always been a premiere platform for new Chinese cinema. The Berlinale gave Golden Bear trophies to Zhang Yimou in 1988 for Red Sorghum and to Lee (Life of Pi) in 1993 for The Wedding Banquet (an honor he shared ex aequo with fellow Chinese filmmaker Xie Fei for Xiang hun nu).