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" by William Wyler
* 1949 "Monsieur Verdoux" by Charles Chaplin

1950's

* 1950 "The Snake Pit" af Anatole Litvak
* 1951 "Sunset Boulevard" by Billy Wilder
* 1952 "All About Eve" by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* 1953 "High Noon" af Fred Zinnemann
* 1954 "Julius Caesar" by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* 1955 "On the Waterfront" by Elia Kazan
* 1956 "Marty" by Delbert Mann
* 1957 -
* 1958 "East of Eden" by Elia Kazan
* 1959 "The Defiant Ones" by Stanley Kramer

1960's

* 1960 "12 Angry Men" by Sidney Lumet
* 1961 "The Young One" by Luis Buñuel
* 1962 "Judgement at Nuremberg" by Stanley Kramer
* 1963 "The Exterminating Angel" by Luis Buñuel
* 1964 -
* 1965 "Seven Days in May" by John Frankenheimer
* 1966 "Fail Safe" by Sidney Lumet
* 1967 "Nayak (The Hero)" by Satyajit Ray
* 1968 "Bonnie and Clyde" by Arthur Penn
* 1969 "Pather Panchali" by Satyajit Ray

1970's

* 1970 "Midnight Cowboy" by John Schlesinger
* 1971 "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" by Abraham Polonsky
* 1972 "Taking Off" by Milos Forman
* 1973 "Cabaret" by Bob Fosse
* 1974 "Scarecrow" by Jerry Schatzberg
* 1975 "Chinatown (film)" by Roman Polanski
* 1976 "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Milos Forman
* 1977 "Nashville" by Robert Altman
* 1978 "Annie Hall" by Woody Allen
* 1979 "An Unmarried Woman" by Paul Mazursky

1980's

* 1980 "Manhattan" by Woody Allen
* 1981 "All That Jazz" by Bob Fosse
* 1982 "The Four Seasons" by Alan Alda
* 1983 "Tootsie" by Sydney Pollack
* 1984 "Zelig" by Woody Allen
* 1985 "The Right Stuff" by Philip Kaufman
* 1986 "The Purple Rose of Cairo" by Woody Allen
* 1987 "Hannah and Her Sisters" by Woody Allen
* 1988 "Down by Law" by Jim Jarmusch
* 1989 "The Dead" by John Huston

1990's

* 1990 "Dangerous Liaisons" by Stephen Frears
* 1991 "Goodfellas" by Martin Scorsese
* 1992 "Thelma & Louise" by Ridley Scott
* 1993 "The Player" by Robert Altman
* 1994 "The Age of Innocence" by Martin Scorsese and "The Piano" by Jane Campion
* 1995 "Short Cuts" by Robert Altman
* 1996 "Smoke" by Wayne Wang
* 1997 "Fargo" by Joel Coen
* 1998 "L. A. Confidential" by Curtis Hanson
* 1999 "Ice Storm" by Ang Lee

2000's

* 2000 "The Straight Story" by David Lynch
* 2001 "American Beauty" by Sam Mendes
* 2002 "Lord of the Rings" by Peter Jackson
* 2003 "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch
* 2004 "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore
* 2005 "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola
* 2006 "A History of Violence" by David Cronenberg
* 2007 "Babel" by Alejandro González Iñárritu
* 2008 "Letters from Iwo Jima" by Clint Eastwood

External Links

* [http://www.filmkritik.dk/ Denmark's National Association of Film Critics]