7th Bodil Awards

Date| 27 April 1954 (1954-04-27)
Site| World Cinema, Copenhagen
Hosted by| Kaj Berg Madsen
Highlights
Best Film| Farlig Ungdom
Best Actor| Angelo Bruun [da]
Hendes store aften
Best Actress| Tove Maës
Himlen er blaa [da]

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The 7th Bodil Awards was held on 27 April 1954 at the World Cinema in Copenhagen, Denmark, honoring the best in Danish and foreign film of 1953.[1]

The evening started with a preview screening of James Stewart and June Allyson starring in Anthony Mann's The Glenn Miller Story.

The award ceremony was a triumph for director Lau Lauritzen Jr., who had previously, albeit shared with Bodil Ipsen, received the Bodil for Best Danish Film three times: In 1949, for The Viking Watch of the Danish Seaman, in 1951, for Café Paradis (Paradise Cafe), and in 1952, for Det Sande Ansigt (The True Face). For his direction of Farlig Ungdom he took home the award for Best Danish Film for a fourth time, a record that would stand more than forty years until Lars von Trier in 1997 received his fourth Best Danish Film Bodil for Breaking the Waves.[2]

Foreign films were well represented with René Clément's Forbidden Games winning the Bodil Award for Best European Film, and Julius Caesar directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz winning the award for Best American Film.

## Winners

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### Best Danish Film

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* Farlig Ungdom directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr.

### Best Actor in a Leading Role

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* Angelo Bruun [da] in Hendes store aften

### Best Actress in a Leading Role

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* Tove Maës in Himlen er blaa [da]

### Best Actor in a Supporting Role

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* Not awarded

### Best Actress in a Supporting Role

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* Not awarded

### Best European Film

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* Forbidden Games directed by René Clément

### Best American Film

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* Julius Caesar directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

## References

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1. ^ Paw Pedersen (May 2012). Direktor Lau Lauritzen (in Danish). BoD – Books on Demand. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-87-7114-705-6.
2. ^ Grethe Jensen; Benito Scocozza (1996). Politikens bog om danskerne og verden: hvem, hvad, hvornår i 50 år. Politikens forlag. ISBN 978-87-567-5697-6.

## Further reading

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* Claus Hesselberg (2000). Bodil: historien om en filmpris : 1948-1999 (in Danish). Filmmedarbejderforeningen. ISBN 978-87-987836-0-2.

## External links

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* 7th Bodil Awards at the official Bodil Awards website

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