Last Saturday during the 66th Bodil awards in Copenhagen Tobias Lindholm's drama A Hijacking was voted Best Danish Film of the year by the Danish Film Critics Association. This is the second Bodil statuette for the 36 year-old director who won the same prize in 2011 for his debut feature R (co-directed by Michael Noer). The 66th Bodil ceremony was a celebration of Denmark's new talents as Sara Hjort Ditlevsen (25) won Best Actress for Excuse-Me, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (29) Best Actor for A Royal Affair and Frederikke Dahl Hansen (pictured - 19) Best Supporting Actress for You & Me Forever.
A Royal Affair collected another two awards for Best Cinematography (Rasmus Videbæk) and a Henning Bahs Award for Niels Sejer's Production Design. Other top Bodil awards went to Tommy Kenter (Best Supporting Actor, Marie Krøyer) and Lise Birk Pedersen (Best Documentary, Putin's Kiss). Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis' 2012 hit This Life received the Viasat Film Audience Award, Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Act of Killing a Special Bodil, and composer Bent Fabricius-Bjerre an Honorary Bodil. Michael Haneke's Oscar-winning Amour won Best non-US Film and Argo Best US Film. Nordisk Film & TV Fond was associated to eight Bodil awards.