Bodil Award for Best English Language Film
The Bodil Award for Best American Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Template:Lang-da). It was created in 1948 and is one of the oldest film prizes in Europe. The category was named "Best American Film" until 1961, when it became the "Best Non-European Film". In 2001, the name of the award changed back to "Best American Film", and the European category was changed to "Best Non-American Film".
The judging committee may choose not to present an award if there isn't a worthy film. This has happened twice: In 1957, when American producers boycotted Denmark; and in 1964, when two Bodils were awarded to European films.
1940s
- 1948 The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
- 1949 Monsieur Verdoux by Charles Chaplin
1950s
- 1950 The Snake Pit af Anatole Litvak
- 1951 Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
- 1952 All About Eve by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1953 High Noon af Fred Zinnemann
- 1954 Julius Caesar by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1955 On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan
- 1956 Marty by Delbert Mann
- 1957 Not awarded
- 1958 East of Eden by Elia Kazan
- 1959 The Defiant Ones by Stanley Kramer
1960s
- 1960 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet
- 1961 The Young One by Luis Buñuel
- 1962 Judgement at Nuremberg by Stanley Kramer
- 1963 The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel
- 1964 Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
- 1965 Seven Days in May by John Frankenheimer
- 1966 The Pawnbroker by Sidney Lumet
- 1967 Aparajito by Satyajit Ray
- 1968 Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn
- 1969 Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
1970s
- 1970 Midnight Cowboy by John Schlesinger
- 1971 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here by Abraham Polonsky
- 1972 Taking Off by Miloš Forman
- 1973 Cabaret by Bob Fosse
- 1974 Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg
- 1975 Chinatown by Roman Polanski
- 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman
- 1977 Nashville by Robert Altman
- 1978 Annie Hall by Woody Allen
- 1979 An Unmarried Woman by Paul Mazursky
1980s
- 1980 Manhattan by Woody Allen
- 1981 All That Jazz by Bob Fosse
- 1982 The Four Seasons by Alan Alda
- 1983 Tootsie by Sydney Pollack
- 1984 Zelig by Woody Allen
- 1985 The Right Stuff by Philip Kaufman
- 1986 The Purple Rose of Cairo by Woody Allen
- 1987 Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen
- 1988 Down by Law by Jim Jarmusch
- 1989 The Dead by John Huston
1990s
- 1990 Dangerous Liaisons by Stephen Frears
- 1991 Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese
- 1992 Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott
- 1993 The Player by Robert Altman
- 1994 The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese and The Piano by Jane Campion
- 1995 Short Cuts by Robert Altman
- 1996 Smoke by Wayne Wang
- 1997 Fargo by Joel Coen
- 1998 L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
- 1999 The Ice Storm by Ang Lee
2000s
- 2000 The Straight Story by David Lynch
- 2001 American Beauty by Sam Mendes
- 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Peter Jackson
- 2003 Mulholland Drive by David Lynch
- 2004 Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
- 2005 Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola
- 2006 A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
- 2007 Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 2008 Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
- 2009 There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
2010s
- 2010 Up by Pete Docter
- 2011 A Single Man by Tom Ford
- 2012 Winter's Bone by Debra Granik
- 2013 Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
- 2014 Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
- 2015 Boyhood by Richard Linklater[1][2]
- 2016 Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 2017 The Revenant by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- 2018 - La La Land by Damien Chazelle
- 2019 The Florida Project by Sean S. Baker
References
- ^ Nanna Jakobsgaard (BNB) (28 February 2015). "Bodil-regn over »Stille hjerte«". www.bt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^ Kim Kastrup (28 February 2015). "Bodilprisen 2015: Og vinderne er..." (in Danish). Ekstra Bladet. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
