Bodil Award for Best Danish Film

The Bodil Award for Best Danish Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Danish: Filmedarbejderforeningen). It was created in 1948 and is one of the oldest film prizes in Europe. The judging committee can decide not to give out the award if no deserving films are submitted. This has occurred once, in 1974. More than one film also can receive the award in a single year, as occurred in 1955.

1940's

* 1948 "Jenny and the Soldier" by Johan Jacobsen
* 1949 "Støt står den danske sømand" by Bodil Ipsen og Lau Lauritzen Jr.

1950's

* 1950 "Susanne" by Torben Anton Svendsen
* 1951 "Café Paradis" by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
* 1952 "Det Sande Ansigt" by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr.
* 1953 "Adam and Eve" by Erik Balling
* 1954 "Farlig Ungdom" by Lau Lauritzen Jr.
* 1955 "Ordet" by Carl Th. Dreyer and "Der kom en dag" by Sven Methling
* 1956 "På tro og love" by Torben Anton Svendsen
* 1957 "Be Dear to Me" by Annelise Hovmand
* 1958 "Sin Alley" by Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt and Robert Sasskin
* 1959 "A Stranger Knocks" by Johan Jacobsen

1960's

* 1960 "Vi er allesammen tossede" by Sven Methling
* 1961 "The Last Winter" by Edvin Tiemroth and Anker Sørensen
* 1962 "Harry and the Butler" by Bent Christensen
* 1963 "Weekend" by Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt
* 1964 "Street Without End" by Mogens Vemmer
* 1965 "Gertrud" by Carl Th. Dreyer
* 1966 "Operation Lovebirds" by Erik Balling
* 1967 "Hunger" by Henning Carlsen
* 1968 "People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart" by Henning Carlsen
* 1969 "Ballad of Carl-Henning" by Lene and Sven Grønlykke

1970's

* 1970 "Jazz All Around" by Knud Leif Thomsen
* 1971 "" by Franz Ernst
* 1972 "The Missing Clerk" by Gert Fredholm
* 1973 "The Escape" by Hans Kristensen
* 1974 -
* 1975 "Lars-Ole 5.c" by Nils Malmros
* 1976 "That Brief Summer" by Edward Fleming
* 1977 "Boys" by Nils Malmros
* 1978 "Me and Charly" by Morten Arnfred and Henning Kristiansen
* 1979 "Honeymoon (film)" by Bille August

1980's

* 1980 "Johnny Larsen" by Morten Arnfred
* 1981 "Jeppe på bjerget" by Kaspar Rostrup
* 1982 "Rubber Tarzan" by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
* 1983 "Der er et yndigt land" by Morten Arnfred
* 1984 "Beauty and the Beast" by Nils Malmros
* 1985 "The Element of Crime" by Lars von Trier
* 1986 "Dark Side of the Moon" by Erik Clausen
* 1987 "Flamberede hjerter" by Helle Ryslinge
* 1988 "Pelle the Conqueror" by Bille August
* 1989 "Shadow of Emma" by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen

1990's

* 1990 "Waltzing Regitze" by Kaspar Rostrup
* 1991 "Dance of the Polar Bears" by Birger Larsen
* 1992 "Europa" by Lars von Trier
* 1993 "Pain of Love" by Nils Malmros
* 1994 "Fish Out of Water" by Erik Clausen
* 1995 "The Kingdom" by Lars von Trier
* 1996 "The Beast Within" by Carsten Rudolf
* 1997 "Breaking the Waves" by Lars von Trier
* 1998 "Let's Get Lost" by Jonas Elmer
* 1999 "The Celebration" by Thomas Vinterberg

2000's

* 2000 "The One and Only" by Susanne Bier
* 2001 "The Bench (film)" by Per Fly
* 2002 "" by Ole Christian Madsen
* 2003 "Open Hearts" by Susanne Bier
* 2004 "Dogville" by Lars von Trier
* 2005 "King's Game" by Nikolaj Arcel
* 2006 "Manslaughter" by Per Fly
* 2007 "A Soap" by Pernille Fischer Christensen
* 2008 "The Art of Crying" by Peter Schønau Fog

External Links

* [http://www.filmkritik.dk/ Danish Union of Film Critics]