Last Sunday night, at the Imperial Cinema which hosted the who's who of the Danish film industry, Peter Schønau Fog's drama won two Bodils for Best Film and Best Actor (Jesper Asholt) given out by the Danish Film Critics Association, and on Wednesday, a Zulu for Best Film during the ‘people's choice' award show organised by broadcaster TV2 Zulu at the Forum.
The Art of Crying had already triumphed at the Robert awards earlier this month with eight awards and won the 2007 Nordic Council Film Prize. It was last year's biggest ‘sleeper', selling over 228,000 tickets.
Charlotte Fich won both a Bodil and a Zulu for Best Supporting Actress in Ole Bornedal's Just Another Love Story, the same with Morten Grunwald, voted Best Supporting Actor at both award ceremonies, for his role in Jannik Johansen's White Night.
The Swedish actress Noomi Rapace -currently busy filming Niels Arden Oplev's Men Who Hate Women based on Stieg Larsson's best selling crime novel- won a Bodil for Best Actress for her part in Simon Staho's Daisy Diamond, following up on her Robert award. But the Zulu for Best Actress was given to Paprika Steen for her performance in Ole Bornedal's The Substitute. The Zulu for Best Actor went to Jonatan Spang for Jacob Tuesen's The Early Years.
Other Bodil awards handed out last Sunday include:
-Best Director of Photography: Dan Laustsen, for The Substitute and Just Another Love Story
-Best Documentary Film: The Monastery by Pernille Rose Grønkjær
-Best American film Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
-Best Foreign Film (non-US): Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
-Special Bodil: Ghost Digital Production House for special effects on Island of Lost Souls
-Honorary Bodil: Margherite Engberg, Ib Monty and Niels Jensen for their important role in film education.