Major wins for Another Round, Cry Wolf at Danish Robert Awards

Thomas Vinterberg’s lauded film and DR Drama’s series collected five prizes each including Best Film and Best TV Drama at Saturday’s online Danish film & TV awards.

After its triumph at the European Film Awards and its recent Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign-language film, Another Round scored big at Saturday’s national Robert film & TV awards by winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (for Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm) Best Actor (Mads Mikkelsen) and Best Editing (Anne Østerud & Janus Billeskov Jansen).

The film was the top selling film of 2020 in Denmark with more than 800,000 admissions and so far, more than 65,000 Danes have bought it on the home entertainment market, an all-time record for a Danish film according to Nordisk Film.

Zentropa had much to celebrate at the Robert Awards, as their other production Riders of Justice by Anders Thomas Jensen picked up four awards for Best Actress (Andrea Heick Gadeberg), Supporting Actor (Lars Brygmann), Score (Jeppe Kaas) and Visual Effects (Hummer Højmark & Peter Hjorth).

Christina Rosendahl’s The Good Traitor produced by Nimbus Film received three Roberts for Best Cinematography (Louise McLaughlin), Costume Design (Edit Szücs) and Set Design (Rie Lykke) and Malou Reymann’s debut feature A Perfectly Normal Family accolades for Best Children & Youth Film and Make-Up (Henrik Steen/Thomas Foldberg).

Another breakthrough feature - Shorta by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid won Best Supporting Actress (Özlem Saglanmak) and Sound Design (Morten Green). The film was produced by Toolbox.

Other standout wins include Mads Brügger’s The Mole, named Best Documentary. The director’s latest investigation about North Korea’s illegal weapons trade, drug manufacturing and other criminal activities was produced by Wingman Media and Piraya Film, with broadcasting co-producers DR, BBC, NRK and SVT.

In the TV category, Cry Wolf, freshly awarded the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for Best Screenplay of a Nordic TV Drama (Maja Jul Larsen), was bestowed the top award for Best drama of the year, on top of four awards in the acting categories for the main actors Bjarne Henriksen, the young Fiona Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, and supporting actors Peter Plaugborg and Christine Albeck Børge.

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Nordisk Film & TV Fond is associated to 12 Robert awards for Riders of Justice, The Good Traitor and Cry Wolf.

For the full list of Robert awards, check: www.robertprisen.dk