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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