15/01/2015 - Silent Heart and Speed Walking are both nominated in five categories for the Danish Film Critics’ prize, which will be presented on 28 February

Danish directors Bille August’s Silent Heart [+see also:
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The two films, which have each taken approximately 250,000 admissions in local cinemas, will be competing for the top trophy along with Hella Joof’s All Inclusive [+see also:
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There are only four contenders for the Best Actor prize: Mikael Persbrandt (Pernille Fischer Christensen’s Someone You Love [+see also:
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The winner of five prizes at Venice, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence [+see also:
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Nominees for Best Non-US Film include Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep [+see also:
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interview: Pawel Pawlikowski
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film profile]. Lastly, the candidates for Best US Film are Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, Spike Jonze’s Her, the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis, Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club and Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.