25/09/2009

Henrik Ruben Genz’s multiple award-winning film Terribly Happy [+see also:
trailer
film profile] is this year’s Danish submission for an Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

“As always, the process of choosing is both exciting and difficult, and I am content that the choice was…unanimous,” said Danish Film Institute CEO Henrik Bo Nielsen, chair of the Danish Oscar nomination submission committee.

Terribly Happy has been both a critical and audience success in 2008-2009. Since its world premiere at the 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where it won the Crystal Globe for Best Film, the film has travelled to almost 30 international festivals and has been picked up for distribution in over 40 territories, including Oscilloscope Laboratories in the US. In Denmark, the garnered over 270,000 admissions.

Genz received an Academy Award Nomination in 1999 for his short film Teis & Nico. The last time Denmark was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was in 2007, for Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
interview: Susanne Bier
film profile].

The Oscar nominations will be announced on February 2, 2010 and the Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 7 in Los Angeles.