- Bodil Award for Best American Film
The Bodil Award for Best American Film is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Union of Film Critics (Danish: Filmedarbejderforeningen). It was created in 1948 and is one of the oldest film prizes in Europe. The category was named "Best American Film" until 1961, when it became the "Best Non-European Film. In 2001, the name of the award changed back to "Best American Film (and the European category was changed to Best Non-American Film).
The judging committee may choose not to present an award if there isn't a worthy film. Twice was the award not presented: In 1957, when American producers boycotted Denmark; and in 1964, when there were two Bodils awarded to European Films.
1940's
* 1948 "
The Best Years of Our Lives " byWilliam Wyler
* 1949 "Monsieur Verdoux " byCharles Chaplin 1950's
* 1950 "
The Snake Pit " afAnatole Litvak
* 1951 "Sunset Boulevard" byBilly Wilder
* 1952 "All About Eve " byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
* 1953 "High Noon " afFred Zinnemann
* 1954 "Julius Caesar" byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
* 1955 "On the Waterfront " byElia Kazan
* 1956 "Marty " byDelbert Mann
* 1957 -
* 1958 "East of Eden " byElia Kazan
* 1959 "The Defiant Ones " byStanley Kramer 1960's
* 1960 "
12 Angry Men " bySidney Lumet
* 1961 "The Young One " byLuis Buñuel
* 1962 "Judgement at Nuremberg " byStanley Kramer
* 1963 "The Exterminating Angel" byLuis Buñuel
* 1964 -
* 1965 "Seven Days in May " byJohn Frankenheimer
* 1966 "Fail Safe " bySidney Lumet
* 1967 "Nayak (The Hero)" bySatyajit Ray
* 1968 "Bonnie and Clyde" byArthur Penn
* 1969 "Pather Panchali" bySatyajit Ray 1970's
* 1970 "
Midnight Cowboy " byJohn Schlesinger
* 1971 "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here " byAbraham Polonsky
* 1972 "Taking Off " byMilos Forman
* 1973 "Cabaret" byBob Fosse
* 1974 "Scarecrow" byJerry Schatzberg
* 1975 "Chinatown (film) " byRoman Polanski
* 1976 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " byMilos Forman
* 1977 "Nashville" byRobert Altman
* 1978 "Annie Hall " byWoody Allen
* 1979 "An Unmarried Woman " byPaul Mazursky 1980's
* 1980 "Manhattan" by
Woody Allen
* 1981 "All That Jazz " byBob Fosse
* 1982 "The Four Seasons" byAlan Alda
* 1983 "Tootsie " bySydney Pollack
* 1984 "Zelig " byWoody Allen
* 1985 "The Right Stuff" byPhilip Kaufman
* 1986 "The Purple Rose of Cairo " byWoody Allen
* 1987 "Hannah and Her Sisters " byWoody Allen
* 1988 "Down by Law " byJim Jarmusch
* 1989 "The Dead " byJohn Huston 1990's
* 1990 "
Dangerous Liaisons " byStephen Frears
* 1991 "Goodfellas " byMartin Scorsese
* 1992 "Thelma & Louise " byRidley Scott
* 1993 "The Player " byRobert Altman
* 1994 "The Age of Innocence " byMartin Scorsese and "The Piano " byJane Campion
* 1995 "Short Cuts " byRobert Altman
* 1996 "Smoke" byWayne Wang
* 1997 "Fargo" byJoel Coen
* 1998 "L. A. Confidential " byCurtis Hanson
* 1999 "Ice Storm " byAng Lee 2000's
* 2000 "
The Straight Story " byDavid Lynch
* 2001 "American Beauty" bySam Mendes
* 2002 "Lord of the Rings" byPeter Jackson
* 2003 "Mulholland Drive" byDavid Lynch
* 2004 "Bowling for Columbine " byMichael Moore
* 2005 "Lost in Translation" bySofia Coppola
* 2006 "A History of Violence " byDavid Cronenberg
* 2007 "Babel " byAlejandro González Iñárritu
* 2008 "Letters from Iwo Jima " byClint Eastwood External Links
* [http://www.filmkritik.dk/ Denmark's National Association of Film Critics]
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