When Denmark’s finest film awards are to be handed out at the Bodilprisen in 2025, it will be the first time without gender-segregated awards.
This is stated by Bodilprisen in a press release on Tuesday morning via Have Kommunikation.
This specifically means that the “Best Male Lead Role” and “Best Female Lead Role” awards are merged into “Best Lead Role”.
The same principle applies to the new “Best Supporting Actor” award.
When the gendered awards are combined, it means that the number of nominees is expanded from five to seven nominees in the two categories.
Nanna Frank Rasmussen, head of the association Danish Film Critics, believes that “even an old lady like Bodil must of course keep up with the times”.
– If the Bodil prize were replaced today, one could hardly imagine that some prizes would be divided by gender, while others were not. The quality of a film performance does not depend on an actor’s gender, says Rasmussen.
The Bodil prize is the first Danish film prize to scrap the gender-segregated prizes.
It thus follows in the slip stream at the Danish award ceremony for performing arts Årets Reumert, which earlier this year dropped gender-segregated awards.
In this connection, DR wrote that Denmark’s Film Academy, which is behind the Robert Prize, will not remove the gender-segregated awards for the time being.
But the Bodil price does, and with the change in the price structure comes another new price.
When the 78th edition of the awards ceremony gets underway, the “Best Ensemble” award will make its debut.
The award recognizes films where “the central acting gallery as a whole is worthy of recognition”.
– We look forward to paying tribute to the art that arises in the interaction between several actors with the new award category, says the person in charge.
The new price structure at the Bodil prize has initially been adopted for a four-year trial period. In 2028, it must be evaluated at the Danish Film Critics’ general meeting.
Thirteen prizes will be awarded when the Bodil prize is held on 15 March 2025 in Folketeatret in Copenhagen.
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Source: www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
