14/12/2012 - Exceeding 538,000 domestic admissions, Danish director Nikolaj Arcel's historical drama, which won two prizes at the Berlinale, has now been nominated for the Golden Globe, among others

Less than a year after Danish director Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair [+see also:
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Yesterday (December 13) nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Foreign-Language Film - the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will announce the winner from five contenders on January 10 - the Louise Vesth, Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Meta Louise Foldager production for Zentropa Entertainments has become the biggest Danish release so far both in the UK and Australia.

Released in 130 prints on November 21 in France, the film is currently heading for the same record in France. "It has been well received by theatres, press and audiences," said Sarah Chazelle, of Franch distributor Jour2fête, after the Mads Mikkelsen-Alicia Vikander-starrer had reached 150,056 admissions in three weeks, beating both Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration (1998) and Susanne Bier's In a Better World [+see also:
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Shot on a €6 million budget, A Royal Affair - which was nominated for the Nordic Council's Film prize - follows the 18th century love affair between German doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee, the physician-in-ordinary to Denmark's schizophrenic King Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilda, which eventually resulted in his beheading and the queen being sent into exile.

Licensed to more than 78 territories by Denmark's TrustNordisk, it is the first Danish film to be nominated for three American Satellite Awards, which the International Press Academy will announce on December 16. Released in New York and Los Angeles by Magnolia Pictures on November 11, now expanding to 41 screens, it won the Audience Award/World Cinema at the AFI Fest and has been nominated for the Critics' Choice Award by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.