69th Bodil Awards

The 69th Bodil Awards were held on 5 March 2016 in the Bremen Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark, honoring the best national and foreign films of 2015.

On 11 February 2016 it was announced that 75-year-old Danish-French actress Anna Karina would receive the 2016 Bodil Honorary Award as "one of the most iconic" actresses of the French New Wave.^[1]

Land of Mine directed by Martin Zandvliet was the big winner at the Awards: It won the Best Danish Film Award, Roland Møller won his first Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role as Sgt. Carl Rasmussen in the film, while Louis Hofmann took home the statuette for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as a young German POW.^[2] Peter Albrechtsen received a special Bodil for sound design in the film The Idealist and Mia Stensgaard won the Henning Bahs Prize for her production design on Mænd og Høns.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Winners in bold

Best Danish Film

• Land of Mine

• The Idealist
• Bridgend
• Krigen
• Sommeren '92

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Roland Møller – Land of Mine

  Joachim Fjelstrup – Steppeulven

  Ulrich Thomsen – Sommeren '92

  Pilou Asbæk – Krigen

  Peter Plaugborg – The Idealist

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Mille Lehfeldt – Lang historie kort

  Ghita Nørby – Nøgle hus spejl

  Tuva Novotny for Krigen

  Hannah Murray for Bridgend

  Bodil Jørgensen for People Get Eaten

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Louis Hofmann – Land of Mine

  Søren Malling – The Idealist

  Henning Jensen – Sommeren '92

  Dulfi al-Jabouri – Krigen

  Esben Smed – Sommeren '92

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Trine Pallesen – Nøgle hus spejl

  Trine Dyrholm – Lang historie kort

  Dya Josefine Hauch – Lang historie kort

  Lene Maria Christensen – Sommeren '92

  Ruth Brejnholm – Skyggen af en helt

Best American Film

• Birdman

  Inside Out

  Sicario

  Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  Whiplash

Best Non-American Film

• Mommy

• Leviathan
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Amy
• Marshland

Best Documentary

• The Man Who Saved the World

• Et hjem i verden
• Misfits
• Fassbinder – at elske uden at kræve
• Naturens uorden

Recipients

Bodil Honorary Award

• Anna Karina

Bodil Special Award

• Peter Albrechtsen, Sound editor, for editing The Idealist among other films.

Best Cinematography

• Magnus Nordenhof Jønck for Nøgle hus spejl, Krigen and Bridgend

External awards

Henning Bahs Award

• Mia Stensgaard for Mænd og Høns

Danish Writers Guild Best Screenplay Award

• May el-Toukhy and Maren Louise Käehne for Lang historie kort

See also

• 2016 Robert Awards

References

External links

• Official website (in Danish)