18/12/2010

The Danish Film Academy has announced this year’s local films that will run for the Robert Awards. Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino [+see also:
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interview: Thomas Vinterberg
film profile] is the favourite with 19 nominations, followed by Nikolaj Arcel’s comedy Truth about Men (12) and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising [+see also:
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interview: Nicolas Winding Refn
film profile] (nine).

The surprise is only seven nominations for Susanne Bier’s In a Better World [+see also:
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While Submarino is nominated in all but one category – including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Actor – Bier did not make it into the Best Film category, whose other contenders are Nicolo Donato’s Brotherhood [+see also:
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Interview Nicolo Donato [IT]
interview: Nicolo Donato
film profile], Christoffer Boe’s Everything Will Be Fine [+see also:
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film profile], Truth About Men and R [+see also:
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film profile] by Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer.

Bier is the only woman running for Best Director, alongside Vinterberg, Donato, Lindholm and Noer, and Arcel.

Competition will be tight for the Best Actor award, with Swedish star actor Mikael Persbrandt (In a Better World) up against Mads Mikkelsen (Valhalla Rising), Jens Albinus (Everything Will Be Fine), Jakob Cedergren (Submarino) and the Berlinale 2011 Shooting Star Pilou Asbæk (R).

Trine Dyrholm (In a Better World) is nominated for the sixth time in a row in the Best Female Actress category. She will run against Julie Borchhorst Andersen (Hold Me Tight [+see also:
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Five films are competing for Best Children and Youth Film: Kaspar Munk’s Hold Me Tight, Charlotte Sachs Bostrup’s Karla and Jonas, Vibeke Muasya’s Lost in Africa, Oliver Ussing’s My Good Enemy and The Olsen Gang Gets Polished by Jørgen Lerdam.

The Robert ceremony will take place in Copenhagen on February 6, 2011. Other nominations still to be announced include Best Short, Best Documentary, Best US and non-US Films and the Audience Award.