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On the way to the Oscars, Vinterberg’s The Hunt collects four Bodil awards

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- Vinterberg has won his second Bodil with The Hunt, collecting four statuettes. He had just received six Robert prizes from the Danish Film Academy

On the way to the Oscars, Vinterberg’s The Hunt collects four Bodil awards

The Hunt [+see also:
film review
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
interview: Thomas Vinterberg
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]
is an exquisite gem of a film – Thomas Vinterberg has well deserved his second Bodil,” said the jury of the Danish Film Critics Association, which gave its top prize – as well as another three – to the director at the awards ceremony in Copenhagen’s Bremen Theatre on Saturday (February 1). Vinterberg last received the prize for his Dogme film The Celebration in 1999.

“I am deeply grateful for the prize – thank you very much to the Danish critics, the audiences and the film support system,” said Vinterberg, who last week collected six Robert prizes from the Danish Film Academy.

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“Already at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Mads Mikkelsen was awarded Best Actor in the film, so it is only natural we follow suit at home,” added the jury, which – besides Best Feature and Best Actor – gave Bodil statuettes to the film for Best Supporting Actress (Susse Wold) and Best Cinematography (Charlotte Bruus Christensen).

Between them, The Hunt and director Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Louise Vesth
film profile
]
had received six nominations, and Nymphomaniac cashed in for one: Best Actress (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Each was considered in three categories. Michael Noer’s Northwest [+see also:
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interview: Michael Noer
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]
won for Best Supporting Actor (Roland Møller), and Mikkel Nørgaard’s The Keeper of Lost Causes [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eugenio Mira
film profile
]
won the Henning Bahs Award for set designer Rasmus Thjellesen.

The next step for The Hunt, which took 672,512 admissions domestically, reaching number 2 in the local 2013 charts, is the Oscar; the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the winners at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2014.

FULL LIST OF THE BODIL AWARDS 2014

Best Feature
The Hunt – Thomas Vinterberg

Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen, for The Hunt

Best Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg, for Nymphomaniac

Best Supporting Actor
Roland Møller, for Northwest

Best Supporting Actress
Susse Wold, for The Hunt

Best Non-US Feature
Blue Is the Warmest Colour [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Abdellatif Kechiche
film profile
]

Best Cinematographer
Charlotte Bruus Christensen, for The Hunt

Best Documentary
Ai Weiwe: The Fake Case [+see also:
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]
Andreas Johnsen

Special Bodil
CPH:DOX (The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival)

Honorary Bodil
Danish actor Jesper Langberg

The Henning Bahs Award
Set designer Rasmus Thjellesen, for The Keeper of Lost Causes

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