Bodil Award for Best American Film
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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. This has happened twice: In 1957, when American producers boycotted Denmark; and in 1964, when two Bodils were awarded to European Films.
Contents
1940s
- 1948 The Best Years of Our Lives by William Wyler
- 1949 Monsieur Verdoux by Charles Chaplin
1950s
- 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 Not awarded
- 1958 East of Eden by Elia Kazan
- 1959 The Defiant Ones by Stanley Kramer
1960s
- 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 Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
- 1965 Seven Days in May by John Frankenheimer
- 1966 Fail Safe by Sidney Lumet
- 1967 Aparajito by Satyajit Ray
- 1968 Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn
- 1969 Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
1970s
- 1970 Midnight Cowboy by John Schlesinger
- 1971 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here by Abraham Polonsky
- 1972 Taking Off by Miloš Forman
- 1973 Cabaret by Bob Fosse
- 1974 Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg
- 1975 Chinatown by Roman Polanski
- 1976 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman
- 1977 Nashville by Robert Altman
- 1978 Annie Hall by Woody Allen
- 1979 An Unmarried Woman by Paul Mazursky
1980s
- 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
1990s
- 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 The Ice Storm by Ang Lee
2000s
- 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
- 2009 There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
2010s
- 2010 Up by Pete Docter
- 2011 A Single Man by Tom Ford
- 2012 Winter's Bone by Debra Granik
- 2013 Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin
- 2014 Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
- 2015 Boyhood by Richard Linklater[1][2]
