The Bodil Award for Best Documentary is one of the categories for the Bodil Awards presented annually by the Danish Film Critics Association. It was created in 1948 but has only been presented annually since 2007.

Honorees

1940s and 1950s

1948: directed by

1956: Hvor bjergene sejler directed by Bjarne Henning-Jensen

1957: directed by

1960s

1961: directed by

1964: directed by Børge Høst

1965: and directed by

1966: directed by

1968: directed by Claus Ørsted

1969: directed by Peter Refn

1970s

1970: directed by Per Holst

1972: directed by Jørgen Leth

1976: directed by Solvognen

1978: directed by

1980s

1981: directed by Lone Hertz

1982: directed by Hans-Henrik Jørgensen

1984: directed by

1986: directed by Jytte Rex

1990s

1996: Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier directed by

2000s

2005: Tintin and I directed by

2007: Gasolin' directed by Anders Østergaard

2008: The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær

2009: Burma VJ directed by Anders Østergaard

2010s

2010: directed by Anders Riis-Hansen

2011: Armadillo directed by Janus Metz

2012: directed by

2013: Putin's Kiss directed by

2014: Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case directed by Andreas Johnsen

2015: The Look of Silence directed by Joshua Oppenheimer

2016: The Man Who Saved the World directed by Peter Anthony

2017: The War Show directed by Obaidah Zytoon and

2018: Last Men in Aleppo directed by Feras Fayyad

: directed by

directed by Elvira Lind

Fanget i de fries land directed by Camilla Magid

directed by Janus Metz &

directed by Emil Næsby Hansen

2020s

: directed by Emil Langballe

Et ægte par directed by Emil Langballe

Forglem mig ej directed by Sun Hee Engelstoft

directed by Sidse Torstholm Larsen and Sturla Pilskog

Western Arabs directed by

2021: En splittet familie directed by Mira Jargil

The Cave directed by Feras Fayyad

directed by

directed by Erlend E. Mo

Undertrykkelsens sang directed by Estephan Wagner and Marianne Hougen-Moraga

See also

Robert Award for Best Documentary Feature

Robert Award for Best Documentary Short

References

Sources

Further reading

External links

1948 establishments in Denmark

Awards established in 1948

Documentary

Documentary film awards

Bodil Award for Best Documentary