The Danish-Icelandic production Winter Brothers [+lee también:
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Winter Brothers, which depicts the relationship between two brothers in a “lack of love story” about embracing quirkiness, is already well-travelled and has been awarded at several major film festivals – including Locarno, CPH:PIX, Thessaloniki and New Horizons – and it also received the Roberts for Best Actor (Elliott Crosset Hove) and Best Supporting Actress (Victoria Carmen Sonne). Five more of its awards were for technical categories, including Best Cinematography for Maria von Hausswolff and Best Sound Design for Lars Halvorsen. The film took only 8,000 admissions in Denmark, and Pálmason mentioned: “It takes time to build something up; it does not happen in a day, so we should slowly build an audience that is interested in experiencing something new and something different.”

One year after his first Best Director Robert for Parents [+lee también:
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The 3D animated film The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear [+lee también:
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Ride Upon the Storm, a character-driven drama that centres on a family of priests that traces its roots back more than 250 years, came out on top in the TV categories. The series, broadcasted by Danish pubcaster DR and directed by Kaspar Munk, received the Best TV Series Robert, while leading actor Lars Mikkelsen and actress Ann Eleonora Jørgensen received their respective Roberts. Another family drama, The Legacy, which has aired its third and final season, and was also commissioned by DR, received the Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard) and Best Supporting Actress (Lene Maria Christensen).

Here is the complete list of the 2018 Danish Robert Award winners:

Best Danish Film
Winter Brothers [+lee también:
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Best Film for Children and Youth Audiences
The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear [+lee también:
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Best Director
Hlynur Pálmason – Winter Brothers 

Best Original Screenplay
Christian Tafdrup, Mads Tafdrup – A Horrible Woman [+lee también:
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Bo Mr Hansen – The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear

Best Actress
Amanda Collin – A Horrible Woman

Best Actor
Elliott Crosset Hove – Winter Brothers

Best Supporting Actress
Victoria Carmen Sonne – Winter Brothers

Best Supporting Actor
Jakob Oftebro – The Man [+lee también:
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Best Production Design
Gustav Pontoppidan – Winter Brothers

Best Cinematography
Maria von Hausswolff – Winter Brothers

Best Costume Design
Nina Grønlund – Winter Brothers

Best Make-up
Katrine Tersgov – Winter Brothers

Best Editing
Kasper Leick – Darkland [+lee también:
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Best Sound Design
Lars Halvorsen – Winter Brothers

Best Musical Score
Jens Ole Wowk McCoy – Darkland

Best Original Song
“I Do Not Know How to Get in Your Heart” – Rumle Sieling Langdal Jensen (The Man)

Best Visual Effects
Martin Madsen – Man Divided [+lee también:
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Best Documentary
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Best US Feature
Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan

Best Non-US Feature
The Square [+lee también:
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Best Short Film: Fiction/Animation
Silent Nights – Aske Bang

Best Short Film: Documentary
Weltschmerz – Jesper Dalgaard

Best Mini-TV Series
Tinka’s Christmas Adventure – Mogens Hagedorn

Best TV Series
Ride Upon the Storm – Kaspar Munk

Best Actor in a TV Series
Lars Mikkelsen – Ride Upon the Storm

Best Actress in a TV Series
Ann Eleonora Jørgensen – Ride Upon the Storm

Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series
Mikkel Boe Følsgaard – The Legacy, Season 3

Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series
Lene Maria Christensen – The Legacy, Season 3

Honorary Robert
Tivi Magnusson (producer)

The IB Prize
Katja Adomeit (producer)

The Blockbuster Audience Award
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