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.

69th Bodil Awards
Date	5 March 2016 (2016-03-05)
Site	Bremen Theatre, Copenhagen
Hosted by	Troels Lyby
Organized by	Danish Film Critics Association
Highlights
Best Film	Land of Mine
Bodil Honorary Award	Anna Karina
Best Actor	Roland Møller Land of Mine
Best Actress	Mille Lehfeldt [da] Long story short
Most awards	Land of Mine (3)
Most nominations	Sommeren '92 (4)
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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

• Film portal
• Denmark portal

• 2016 Robert Awards