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4th Bodil Awards

Danish film awards ceremony

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ21072719 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 4th Bodil Awards ceremony was held on 30 April 1951 in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1950. The event took place in the World Cinema where Born Yesterday had its Danish premiere as part of the celebrations.

Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen, Jr. won their second Bodil for Best Danish Film in the 4-years history of the awards for Café Paradis. Preben Lerdorff Rye won the award for Best Leading Actor for his role in I gabestokken while Ib Schønberg won the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Café Paradis. Best Leading and Supporting Actresses were not awarded. Finance minister H. C. Hansen received the first ever Honorary Bodil Award for lowering film taxes.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “4th Bodil Awards” as danish film awards ceremony. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bodil, Awards and Danish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as danish film awards ceremony. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21072719. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1951 and 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “4th Bodil Awards” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.