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7th Bodil Awards
The 7th Bodil Awards was held on 27 April 1954 at the World Cinema in Copenhagen, Denmark, honoring the best in Danish and foreign film of 1953. The evening started with a preview screening of James Stewart and June Allyson starring in Anthony Mann's ''The Glenn Miller Story''. The award ceremony was a triumph for director Lau Lauritzen Jr., who had previously, albeit shared with Bodil Ipsen, received the Bodil for Best Danish Film three times: In 1949, for '' The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman'', in 1951, for '' Café Paradis'' (''Paradise Cafe''), and in 1952, for '' Det Sande Ansigt'' (''The True Face''). For his direction of '' Farlig Ungdom'' he took home the award for Best Danish Film for a fourth time, a record that would stand more than forty years until Lars von Trier in 1997 received his fourth Best Danish Film Bodil for ''Breaking the Waves''. Foreign films were well represented with René Clément's ''Forbidden Games'' winning the Bodil Award for Best Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Awards
The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association. The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe. The awards are given without regard to commercial interests or box-office sales, but rather to highlight the films or actors that the critics regard as most worthy. The name of the award honours two of the most important actresses in Danish cinema, Bodil Kjer and Bodil Ipsen. The statuette is made of porcelain, and was designed by Danish artist and sculpted by Svend Jespersen of Bing & Grøndahl. Categories Awards are presented for the following categories: Merit awards * Best Danish Film * Best Actor * Best Actress * Best Supporting Actor * Best Supporting Actress * Best American Film, awarded as Best Non-European Film from 1961 until 1969 * Best Non-American Film, awarded as Best European Film from 1961 until 1969 * Best Documentary * Best Cin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café Paradis
''Café Paradis'' (English Title: ''Paradise Cafe'') is a 1950 Danish film, directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr., and written by . The film received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film, and Ib Schønberg, for what is regarded his finest performance, received the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor. The story illuminates the problems of alcoholism as it follows the lives of two people: one is a common workman (played by Poul Reichhardt) who drinks too much beer, and the other is a company director (played by Ib Schønberg), who believes he just needs "a little one every now and then." They both come to face the consequences of their addictions. Cast * Poul Reichhardt * Ib Schønberg * Ingeborg Brams * Else Højgaard * Karin Nellemose * Johannes Meyer * Jørn Jeppesen * Inge Hvid-Møller * Asbjørn Andersen * Lau Lauritzen Jr. Lau Lauritzen Jr. (26 June 1910 – 12 May 1977), was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director. As a director, he was a 4-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Awards Ceremonies
Bodil may refer to: * Bodil Awards, Danish film awards * Bodil (given name), a feminine given name * Cyclone Bodil Cyclone Xaver (or Storm Xaver), also known as the North Sea flood or tidal surge of 2013, was a winter storm that affected northern Europe. Force 12 winds and heavy snowfall were predicted along the storm's path, and there were warnings of a s ..., a 2013 winter storm that affected northern Europe * 3459 Bodil, an asteroid {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In Denmark
Events from the year 1954 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Frederick IX * Prime minister – Hans Hedtoft Events Births * 15 June – Uffe Elbæk, politician * 10 November – Hans Kjeld Rasmussen, sports shooter Date unknown * Henrik Irgang Elsner, scientist and entrepreneur Deaths * 1 June – Martin Andersen Nexø, socialist, later communist, writer (born 1869) * 6 October – Hakon Børresen, composer (born 1876) * 8 October – Morten Korch, writer of populist stories and romances (born 1876) * 29 October – Sigurd Langberg, actor (born 1897) * 11 November – Johannes Giersing, chess master (born 1872) References {{DEFAULTSORT:1954 In Denmark Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ... Years of the 20th century in Denmark 1950s in Denmark 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Film Awards
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ( da, 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. This has happened twice: In 1957, when American producers boycotted Denmark; and in 1964, when two Bodils were awarded to European films. Honorees 1940s * 1948: ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' directed by William Wyler * 1949: ''Monsieur Verdoux'' directed by Charles Chaplin 1950s * 1950: ''The Snake Pit'' directed by Anatole Litvak * 1951: ''Sunset Boulevard'' directed by Billy Wilder * 1952: ''All About Eve'' directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph L
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Caesar (1953 Film)
''Julius Caesar'' (billed on-screen as ''William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar'') is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Caesar, Edmond O'Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia. The film opened to positive reviews, and was nominated in five categories at the 26th Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Actor for Brando), winning Best Art Direction - Black-and-White. Brando and Gielgud both won BAFTA Awards, Brando for Best Foreign Actor and Gielgud for Best British Actor. Plot *"Upon Caesar's return to Rome, after defeating Pompey in the civil war, his countrymen chose him a fourth time consul and then dictator for life. . . thus he became odious to moderate men through the extravagance of the titles and powers that wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodil Award For Best European Film
The Bodil Award for Best Non-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. This category was called "Best European Film" until 2001, when it became the "Best Non-American Film". Honorees 1940s * 1948: '' A Matter of Life and Death'' directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger * 1949: ''Hamlet'' directed by Laurence Olivier 1950s * 1950: ''The Third Man'' directed by Carol Reed * 1951: ''Bicycle Thieves'' directed by Vittorio De Sica * 1952: '' The Browning Version'' directed by Anthony Asquith * 1953: ''Only a Mother'' directed by Alf Sjöberg * 1954: ''Forbidden Games'' directed by René Clément * 1955: ''Umberto D.'' directed by Vittorio De Sica * 1956: ''La Strada'' directed by Federico Fellini * 1957: ''Smiles of a Summer Night'' directed by Ingmar Bergman * 1958: '' Gates of Paris'' directed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbidden Games
''Forbidden Games'' (french: Jeux interdits) is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel ''Jeux Interdits''. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards. Plot It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local grav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Clément
René Clément (; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. Life and career Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20-minute short written by and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary film, documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, ''La Bataille du rail'' (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking The Waves
''Breaking the Waves'' is a 1996 psychological drama film directed and co-written by Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier and starring English stage actress Emily Watson as her feature film acting debut. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it is about an unusual young woman and of the love she has for her husband, who asks her to have sex with other men when he becomes immobilised from a work accident. The film is an international co-production between Denmark and seven other European countries, while the former's involvement as his first film led by von Trier under his Danish company Zentropa. It is the first film in Trier's Golden Heart Trilogy, which also includes ''The Idiots'' (1998) and ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000). As von Trier's first film made after his founding of the Dogme 95 movement, it is heavily influenced by the movement's style and ethos, although the film breaks several of the rules laid out by the movement's manifesto. ''Breaking the Waves'' has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
