55th Bodil Awards

The 55th Bodil Awards were held on 3 March 2002 in the Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2001. Ole Christian Madsen's Kira's Reason: A Love Story won the awards for Best Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Stine Stengade). Jens Oking and Susanne Juhasz, both from One-Hand Clapping, won the awards for Best Leading Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively, and Tommy Kenter (Fuksvansen) received the Best Supporting Actor award. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was named Best American Film and Swedish Songs from the Second Floor Best Non-American Film.

Morten Piil and Peter Schepelern received a Bodil Special Award for their contribution to increasing the knowledge of and interest in Danish film. Piil is a film critic for Dagbladet Information and Schepelern a scholar from University of Copenhagen, Institute for Film and Media Sciences and both have edited large encyclopedic works. Dan Lausten was honored with the Johan Ankerstjernes Award for Cinematography.^[1]

Winners and nominees:^[2]

Kira's Reason: A Love Story

• A Song for Martin
• Family
• One-Hand Clapping
• Truly Human

Jens Okking – One-Hand Clapping

• Lars Mikkelsen – Kira's Reason: A Love Story
• Troels Lyby – Truly Human
• Nikolaj Lie Kaas – Truly Human
• Sven Wollter – A Song for Martin

Stine Stengade – Kira's Reason: A Love Story

• Sidse Babett Knudsen – Mona's World
• Charlotte Munck – Hush Little Baby
• Viveka Seldahl – A Song for martin

Tommy Kenter – Fukssvansen

• Troels II Munk – Truly Human

Susanne Juhasz – One-Hand Clapping

• Birthe Neumann – Fukssvansen

'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring '

• Traffic
• Shrek
• You Can Count On Me
• The Pledge

Songs from the Second Floor'

• In the Mood for Love
• Love is a Bitch
• The Circle
• Moulin Rouge

Dan Lausten