22/02/2011

Michael Noer and Tobias Lindholm’s (see interview) prison drama R [+see also:
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Lindholm also received a special Bodil for his scripts of R and Submarino [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
film profile], co-written with director Thomas Vinterberg. Submarino won a statuette for supporting actress Patricia Schumann.

Trine Dyrholm won Best Actress for her role in Susanne Bier’s In a Better World [+see also:
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film profile]. Kurt Ravn won Best Supporting Actor for Hold Me Tight [+see also:
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interview: Janus Metz, director of Arm…
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Veteran actor Henning Moritzen was given an Honorary Bodil for his career. The Bodils for Best US film went to A Single Man and for Non-US Film to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon [+see also:
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interview: Michael Haneke
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