Holiday named Best Film at Bodil Awards

Isabella Eklöf's 'Holiday' took home four Bodil Awards at the Danish film critics' annual awards event held Saturday, 2 March, in Copenhagen. 

Holiday

A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.

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Eklöf's debut feature won for Best Film, Best Actress (Victoria Carmen Sonne), Best Supporting Actor (Lai Yde Holgaard) and Best Cinematographer (Nadim Carlsen). The drama premiered last year at the Sundance Film Festival and won two awards at Austin Fantastic Fest.

Gustav Möller received the inaugural Blockbuster Talent Prize for 'The Guilty'. Möller premiered his debut feature at Sundance, where it won an Audience Award. The crime thriller was shortlisted for this year's Oscars and picked up seven trophies at the Danish Film Academy's Robert Awards in February.

As at the Roberts, Jakob Cedergren received Best Actor for 'The Guilty', while Best Script went to Jakob Weis for 'That Time of Year', directed by Paprika Steen. Simon Lereng Wilmont's Oscar-shortlisted 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' secured the Bodil for Best Documentary.

See all winners below.

Bodil Awards / Winners 2019

Best feature
'Holiday' by Isabella Eklöf

Best actress 
Victoria Carmen Sonne ('Holiday')

Best actor
Jakob Cedergren ('The Guilty')

Best supporting actress
Katrine Greis-Rosenthal ('A Fortunate Man')

Best supporting actor
Lai Yde Holgaard ('Holiday')

Best documentary
'The Distant Barking of Dogs' by Simon Lereng Wilmont

Best American feature
'The Florida Project' by Sean Baker 

Best non-American feature
'Roma' by Alfonso Cuarón

Best cinematographer
Nadim Carlsen ('Holiday')

Best script
Jakob Weis ('That Time of Year')

Honorary Bodil
Arne Bro, for his work as head of the documentary programme at the National Film School of Denmark

Special Bodil
Subtitles translator Henrik Thøgersen

Henning Bahs Award
Production designer Simone Grau Roney ('The House That Jack Built')

Blockbuster Talent Prize
Gustav Möller ('The Guilty')

The Guilty

Gustav Möller, 2018

Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman.

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other.

A Fortunate Man

Bille August, 2018

On his quest for happiness, Per decides to leave Jutland and an upbringing in a strict religious home. He runs from his family and his patriarch father and sets sail towards Copenhagen to become an engineer. Parallel to his studies, he works on a visionary energy project based on wind and wave energy, a project so much ahead of its time, that his professors consider him insane and far too self-confident.

That Time of Year

Paprika Steen, 2018

This year at Katrine and Mads' house the family will once again be united for Christmas Eve, and on a traditional holiday like this, there has to be room for everyone: the divorced parents, the youngest sister and her new husband and not least the teenage daughter of the family, struggling to get her mother's attention. Underneath the surface, the explosion lurks as flammable as dry spruce and when the truth starts to appear, the illusion of holiday peace we so deeply insist on shatters.