The Bodil Special Award (, Special Bodil) is one of the awards at the annual

Bodil Awards The Bodil Awards are the major Denmark, Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association. The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe. The awards ...

presented by the

Danish Film Critics Association Danish Film Critics Association (, until 2013 ''Filmmedarbejderforeningen'') is a film critics association that annually since 1948 have handed out the Bodil Awards The Bodil Awards are the major Denmark, Danish film awards given by the Danish F ...

. While the Bodil Awards as such were established in 1948, the Special Award was first presented in 2008, and has been given annually to a person or an organization who has done something special for

Danish cinema Denmark has been producing films since 1897 and since the 1980s has maintained a steady stream of product due largely to funding by the state-supported Danish Film Institute. Historically, Danish films have been noted for their realism, reli ...

Recipients

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

: Ghost Digital Production House for the effects in '' Island of Lost Souls'' *

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

: for the score to ''

What No One Knows ''What No One Knows'' () is a 2008 Danish political thriller film written and directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, and starring Anders W. Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie, Ghita Nørby, and Lars Mikkelsen. The film was produced by Nimbus Film. Plot A ...

'', ''

Terribly Happy ''Terribly Happy'' () is a 2008 Danish crime film directed by Henrik Ruben Genz, based on Erling Jepsen's 2004 eponymous novel. Plot Copenhagen policeman Robert Hansen has been reassigned by his supervisor, the chief of police in Tonder, to a ...

'', and ' *

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Kristian Eidnes Andersen Kristian Eidnes Andersen (born 2 July 1966) is a Danish film audio engineer and composer. He heads the department of sound design at the National Film School of Denmark. Eidnes Andersen got a degree from the National Film School of Denmark, and h ...

for sound design in ''

Antichrist In Christian eschatology, Antichrist (or in broader eschatology, Anti-Messiah) refers to a kind of entity prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus in Christianity, Jesus Christ and falsely substitute themselves as a savior in Christ's place before ...

'' *

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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 the scripts for '' R'' and ''

Submarino ''Submarino'' is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel ''Submarino'' by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish societ ...

'' *

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: Distributor Jes Graversen from Miracle Film *

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Joshua Oppenheimer Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films '' The Act of Killing'' (2012) and ''The Look of Silence'' (2014). Oppenheimer was a 1997 ...

for the hybrid film ''

The Act of Killing ''The Act of Killing'' (, ) is a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, with Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian co-directing. The film follows individuals who participated in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66, whe ...

'' *

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Copenhagen International Documentary Festival CPH:DOX, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is a Danish film festival focused on documentary films, held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2008 it has been run by Copenhagen Film Festivals, which also organize ...

headed by *

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

: ,

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

, for editing ''

Nymphomaniac Hypersexuality is a proposed medical condition said to cause unwanted or excessive sexual arousal, causing people to engage in or think about sexual activity to a point of distress or impairment., according to the website of ''Psychology Toda ...

'' and ''Nymphomaniac Director's Cut'' *

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Tonmeister ''Tonmeister'' is a job description in the music and recording industries that describes a so-called "sound master" (a literal translation of the German ''Tonmeister''): a person who creates recordings or broadcasts of music who is also both music ...

Peter Albrechtsen *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

Christina Rosendahl Christina Rosendahl (born 5 January 1971) is a Danish film director. A nominee for several Robert Awards, she is known for her work on the films '' Supervoksen'' (2007), ''The Idealist'' (2015), and '' The Good Traitor'' (2020). Biography Christ ...

for her film work as chairman of the Danish Film Directors * 2018:

The Animation Workshop The Animation Workshop is an animation school housed in the former military barracks in Viborg, Denmark. It is a part of VIA University College's School of Business, Technology and Creative Industries. Since the late 1980s, The Animation Workshop ...

Copenhagen Bombay Copenhagen Bombay was a Danish production company, animation studio and distribution company, specializing in entertainment for children and teenagers. It produced films, television, books, games, online universes and other media. The company went ...

, and VOID – International Animation Film Festival * 2019: Translator Henrik Thøgersen * 2020: Stumfilm.dk, the silent movie streaming service of the

Danish Film Institute The Danish Film Institute (; DFI) is the national Danish institution, agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture, and for conserving these in the national interest. It is the successor organisation to the Danish Fil ...

* 2021: Director and Producer Katja Adomeit for her innovation and for bringing New Zealander Daniel Borgman, Swedish Anna Eborn, Afghan

Shahrbanoo Sadat Shahrbanoo Sadat (born in 1991) is an Afghan filmmaker born in Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Life and career Sadat was born and grew up in Tehran until she was 12 and then returned with her parents to a remote community in central Afghanistan. She stu ...

, and Danish to light.

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* {{Bodil Awards

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