8th Bodil Awards

The 8th Bodil Awards was held 1955 in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best in Danish and foreign film of 1954.

8th Bodil Awards
Date	1955
Site	Copenhagen
Highlights
Best Film	Ordet Der kom en dag
Best Actor	Emil Hass Christensen Ordet
Best Actress	Birgitte Federspiel Ordet
Most awards	Ordet (3)

Prime Minister H. C. Hansen, who had been given the first Bodil Honorary Award in 1951, was guest of honour at a quite untraditional Bodil event. For the first and only time in the Bodil Award's history two film were awarded Best Danish Film: Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet and Sven Methling's Der kom en dag.

Emil Hass Christensen and Birgitte Federspiel each received an award for their performances in Ordet, Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica won the Bodil Award for Best European Film, and On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan won the award for Best American Film.

Winners

Best Danish Film

• Ordet directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and Der kom en dag directed by Sven Methling

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Emil Hass Christensen in Ordet

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Birgitte Federspiel in Ordet

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Not awarded

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Not awarded

Best European Film

• Umberto D. directed by Vittorio De Sica

Best American Film

• On the Waterfront directed by Elia Kazan

Further reading

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

External links

• 8th Bodil Awards at the official Bodil Awards website