The Bodil Award for Best Screenplay is a
film award
Film award is a cinematic award which can be awarded in several categories. Unlike the film festival, the film award is not accompanied by a public screening of competitive films. Film awards are usually awarded based on the results of a secret vot ...
established in 2015 by the
Danish Film Critics Association
Danish Film Critics Association ( da, Danske Filmkritikere, until 2013 ''Filmmedarbejderforeningen'') is a film critics association that annually since 1948 have handed out the Bodil Awards
The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given ...
in collaboration with the
Danish Writers Guild for the best
screenplay that was handed out for the first time as an external award at the
68th Bodil Awards-ceremony.
Recipients
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2015: for ''
Silent Heart
''Silent Heart'' ( da, Stille hjerte, Quiet heart) is a 2014 Danish drama film directed by Bille August, and starring Ghita Nørby, Morten Grunwald, Paprika Steen, and Jens Albinus. The film was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Film Prize.
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''
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2016
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:
May el-Toukhy
May el-Thouky (born 17 August 1977 in Charlottenlund, Denmark) is a Danish-Egyptian film director. She graduated from the Danish National School of Performing Arts in 2002, and later as a film director from the National Film School of Denmark in ...
and
Maren Louise Käehne for '
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2017
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:
Christian Tafdrup
Christian Tafdrup (born 8 April 1978) is a Danish actor, film director, and screenwriter. As a director, he is best known for his directorial debut ''Parents'' (2016) that won the 2017 Robert Award for Best Director, as well as his critically acc ...
for ''
Parents
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''
*
2018
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:
Fenar Ahmad
Fenar Ahmad (in Arabic فنار أحمد) is a Danish filmmaker of Iraqi origin. He was born in 1981 in Czechoslovakia to immigrant Iraqi parents. In 1986 the family emigrated to Denmark. There he studied film in the alternative film school Super16 ...
and for ''
Darkland''
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2019
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:
Jakob Weis for ''
That Time of Year
''That Time of Year'' ( da, Den tid på året) is a 2018 Danish comedy film directed by Paprika Steen. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Cast
* Sofie Gråbøl as Barbara
* ...
''
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2020
2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, worldwide lockdowns and the largest economic recession since the Great Depression in t ...
: for '
*
2021
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:
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films ''The Celeb ...
and
Tobias Lindholm
Tobias Lindholm (born 5 July 1977) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His 2015 directed film ''A War'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to ''A War'', he has directed the films '' R'' (2010), ...
for ''
Another Round''
See also
*
Robert Award for Best Screenplay
References
External links
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{{Bodil Awards
2015 establishments in Denmark
Awards established in 2015
Screenplay