Bodil Awards 2008

2008 Bodil Awards
Danish Film Critics Association’s 2008 Bodil Award nominations: January 2008
2008 Bodil Award winners: Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen on Feb. 24, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

The Art of Crying by Peter Schønau Fog
 

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
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by Andre Soares | February 24, 2008   
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Bodil Awards 2008 Nominations

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 after having accidentally killed a man in a barroom brawl.
The other best film nominees were:

Peter Schønau Fog’s The Art of Crying, 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;
Morten Hartz Kaplers‘ AFR, a mockumentary about the assassination of Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen — an avid supporter of the invasion of Iraq — [...]

by Andre Soares | January 31, 2008   
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Bodil Awards 2007

2007 Bodil Awards
Danish Film Critics Association’s 2007 Bodil winners: Imperial Biografen in Copenhagen on February 25, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Pernille Fischer Christensen’s A Soap revolves around the unlikely friendship that develops between two neighbors: the owner of a beauty salon (Trine Dyrholm) and a pre-op transsexual (David Dencik, above). Additionally, A Soap shared the Jury Grand Prix (with Offside) at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, where it also won the best first film award.
 

Best Danish Film / Bedste danske film
Drømmen / We Shall Overcome (Niels Arden Oplev)
Efter brylluppet / After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
* En soap / A Soap (Pernille Fischer Christensen)
Prag / Prague (Ole Christian Madsen)
Råzone / Life Hits (Christian E. Christiansen)
Best American Film / Bedste [...]

by Andre Soares | February 20, 2007   
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