41st Robert Awards | |
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Date | 3 February 2024 |
Hosted by | Lise Baastrup |
Organized by | Danish Film Academy |
Highlights | |
Best Film | The Promised Land |
Most awards | Film The Promised Land (8) Television Prisoner (5) |
Most nominations | Film The Promised Land (14) Television Carmen Curlers 2, Chorus Girls, and Prisoner (6) |
The 41st Robert Awards ceremony, presented by Danish Film Academy on 3 February 2024, to honour the best in Danish film and television of 2023. [1] It took place at the Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark and was hosted by actress Lise Baastrup. [2]
Epic historical drama The Promised Land won eight awards out of fourteen nominations, including Best Danish Film. [3] Documentary film Apolonia, Apolonia won all five awards out of its nominations. Other winners included Unruly with two. DR1's crime drama series Prisoner won five awards, including Best Danish Television Series and every acting category. Film producer Marianne Moritzen received this year's Robert Honorary Award. [4] Film producer Sara Stockmann received the Ib Award. [5]
The nominations were announced on 9 January 2024. [6] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
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Best Non-English-language Feature
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Nominations | Film |
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14 | The Promised Land |
10 | Unruly |
7 | The Great Silence |
Tove's Room | |
6 | Empire |
5 | Apolonia, Apolonia |
4 | Darkland: The Return |
The Land of Short Sentences | |
Liberation | |
The Quiet Migration | |
Unsinkable | |
3 | Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction |
The Great Glitch / Children of Paradise | |
Music for Black Pigeons | |
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever | |
2 | Copenhagen Does Not Exist |
Rosa and the Stone Troll | |
Shabholm | |
Viktor vs the World |
Awards | Film |
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8 | The Promised Land |
5 | Apolonia, Apolonia |
2 | Unruly |
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Nominations | Film |
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6 | Carmen Curlers 2 |
Chorus Girls | |
Prisoner | |
3 | The Nurse |
2 | Agent |
Oxen |
Awards | Film |
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5 | Prisoner |
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