WRITTEN BY: Per Laursen
Two titles swept the room at the Robert Awards in Copenhagen, which exhibited and honoured great upcoming talents.
The film and TV production industry once again had a rough year in 2024, host/comedian Nicolai Jørgensen reminded the audience as he opened the Robert Awards 2025 event in Copenhagen Satruday night, attended by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
“Let's all just recognise what kind of business we’re in,” Jørgensen said, and half-jokingly reminded the audience that Sylvester Stallone worked as an usher in a theatre just before the first Rocky.
The Robert Awards are awarded by the Danish Film Academy once a year, after 2900 Academy members nominate films, TV series, and professionals, and then vote on who will be the recipients.
32 awards were exchanged on stage, but two or three titles stood out, especially Matters of the Heart (Fuld af kærlighed) as Best Film. Christina Rosendahl was named Director of the Year for the film based on Rosendahl's upbringing in a middle-class family where her father drank too much. Lars Ranthe took home the title of Male Lead Actor of the Year for the film, which crowned a victorious evening when Viilbjørk Malling Agger received the award for Female Lead Actor of the Year, followed by statuettes for Cinematographer of the Year, Supporting Actress of the Year, and Original Screenplay of the Year.
The English-language Film of the Year went to The Apprentice. This film drama, created by Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi, portrays US President Donald Trump’s early years.
The TV series Bullshit from Prime Video made a clean sweep in several TV categories. All the nominees of the series' leading and supporting characters took home statuettes. However, the controversial documentary from TV 2, The Black Swan (Den sorte svane), was named TV Series of the Year.
The special IB Award honours daring, innovative, risk-taking, and anarchic entrepreneurs, and was bestowed on Monolit Film ApS, headed by Pernille Tornøe and Victor Gunhan.
“For having produced significant works, such as Death of a Saint (Englemord), in the brief time of just six years, and taking the lead in a diverse, healthy work environment”, according to the jury.
Despite challenging times in the industry, Minister of Culture Jakob Engel-Schmidt reminded the industry that economic conditions will improve, accentuating that an incentive scheme is underway in 2026.
“Next year, we will launch a Danish incentive programme which improves the Swedish model and is a lot better than the Norwegian, and should facilitate more and bigger productions in this country.”
This year the Academy introduced a new category, the ‘Fear Nothing Talent Award by Airtox’. The jury named Louis Emil Ramm Seeberg (Death of a Saint, Madame Ida) as an emerging film talent who represents the ambition and great authenticity that shapes the future of Danish film.
All Robert Awards winners 2025
Feature Film
Matters of the Heart
Documentary
The Son and the Moon (Min arv bor i dig)
Children & Youth Film
The Children of Silver Street (Børnene fra Sølvgade)
Director
Christina Rosendahl for Matters of the Heart
Originalt Script
Christina Rosendahl for Matters of the Heart
Adapted Script
Isabella Eklöf, Kim Leine and Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen for Kalak
Female Leading Role
Viilbjørk Malling Agger for Matters of the Heart
Male Leading Role
Lars Ranthe for Matters of the Heart
Female Supporting Role
Stine Stengade for Matters of the Heart
Male Supporting Role
Nicolas Bro for Mr. Freeman
Cinematographer
Louise McLaughlin for Matters of the Heart
Scenographer
Amalie Skovhus Petersen for Madame Ida
Editor
Anders Albjerg Kristiansen for The Quite Ones (De lydløse)
Costume Designer
Nina Grønlund for Madame Ida
Make Up Artist
Louise Weiland for Madame Ida
Sound Designer
Rune Palving for The Way Home (Vejen hjem)
Background Music
Josefine Skov for Mulm
Original Score
The Children of Silver Street (Vesterbro Ungdomsgård feat Karui and Thomas Helmig)
Visual Effects
Alexander Schepelern, Christian Sjöstedt and Lea Benjovitz for Eternal (For evigt)
English language Film
The Apprentice
Non- English Language Film
The Zone of Interest
Mini series
The Orchester II (Orkestret 2)
TV Series
The Black Swan
Female Leading role – TV Series
Alba August for Bullshit
Male Leading role - TV Series
Marco Ilsø for Bullshit
Female Supporting role - TV Series
Vic Carmen Sonne for Bullshit
Male Supporting role - TV Series
Clint Ruben for Bullshit
Nordsik Film Cinema Audience Award
The Way Home
IB Award
Victor Cunha and Pernille Tornøe
Fear Nothing Talent Award by Airtox
Louis Emil Ramm Seeberg
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