Bodil Awards 2008
February 24th, 2008 by Andre Soares
2007 Danish Film Critics Association’s Bodil Awards
2007 Bodil Award nominations: January 2008.
2007 Bodil Award winners: Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen on February 24, 2008.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Jannik Johansen’s drama White Night (above) received the most nominations — five in all — for the 2007 Danish Film Critics Association’s Bodil Awards. The film follows a real estate agent (best actor nominee Lars Brygmann) who attempts to make amends for having accidentally killed a man in a bar-room brawl.
The other best film nominees were: Peter Schønau Fog’s The Art of Crying (the eventual winner, above), a black comedy about an abusive father in a Jutland community; Natasha Arthy’s Fighter, about a girl who wants to become a kung fu fighter despite her Turkish family’s disapproval; and Morten Hartz Kaplers’s AFR, a mockumentary about the assassination of Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen — an avid supporter of the invasion of Iraq — which "reveals" that the married p.m. was gay. (Though quite right-wing in many of his socio-economic policies, Rasmussen is reportedly a supporter of gay marriages in Denmark’s Lutheran church.) Kaplers himself plays Rasmussen’s lover-assassin.
"Seamlessly put together and with considerable aplomb," says Russell Edwards in Variety, "the mockumentary mercilessly subverts Rasmussen’s real-life actions and statements. Legal consequences in Denmark may be dire, but this agitprop work by writer-director-thesp Kaplers is a tour de force."
BEST FILM
AFR, Morten Hartz Kaplers
Fighter, Natasha Arthy
Hvid nat / White Night, Jannik Johansen
* Kunsten at græde i kor / The Art of Crying, Peter Schønau Fog
BEST AMERICAN FILM
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson
I’m Not There, Todd Haynes
* Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood
Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant
Zodiac, David Fincher
BEST NON-AMERICAN FOREIGN FILM
Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg
* Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro
Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
Reprise, Joachim Trier
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Jesper Asholt, The Art of Crying
Kim Bodnia, Ekko
Lars Brygmann, White Night
David Dencik, Udenfor kærligheden / Outside Love
Jannik Lorenzsen, The Art of Crying
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
* Noomi Rapace, Daisy Diamond
Paprika Steen, Vikaren / The Substitute
Rikke Louise Andersson, White Night
Semra Turan, Fighter
Sonja Richter, Cecilie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Dejan Cukic, De unge år / The Early Years Erik Nietzsche Part 1
* Morten Grunwald, White Night
Nikolaj Kopernikus, De fortabte sjæles ø / Island of Lost Souls
Søren Malling, The Early Years Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Cyron Bjørn Melville, Fighter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Sophie Byder, White Night
Stine Fischer Christensen, Ekko
Trine Dyrholm, Daisy Diamond
* Charlotte Fich, Kærlighed på film / Just Another Love Story
Hanne Hedelund, The Art of Crying
Best Documentary:
* The Monastery by Pernille Rose Gronkjaer
Best Cinematography:
* Dan Laustsen for The Substitute and Just Another Love Story
Honorary Bodil: Distributors Ib Monty, Marguerite Engberg, and Niels Jensen
Extra Bodil: 3D production company Ghost Digital Production House for its work on Island of Lost Souls
Danish Film Critics Association Site
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Cinema Audio Society Awards 2007
Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2007
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 2007
Visual Effects Society Awards 2007
National Society of Film Critics Awards 2007
Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2007
Metro Manila Film Festival Awards 2007
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