Robert Award for Best English Language Film explained

The Robert Award for Best English Language Film (previously named the Robert Award for Best American Film from 1999 to 2018) is an award presented by the Danish Film Academy at the annual Robert Awards ceremony.

History

The award has been handed out since 1999. Between 1984 and 1996, a Robert Award for Best Foreign Film was awarded. Then was split into two awards: Robert Award for Best Non-American Film (from 1997) and the Robert Award for Best American Film (from 1999).^[1] The names of these categories were changed in 2019 to the Robert Award for Best English Language Film and Robert Award for Best Non-English Language Film.

Honorees

1990s

• 1999: The Truman Show – Peter Weir

2000s

• 2000: The Straight Story – David Lynch
• 2001: American Beauty – Sam Mendes
• 2002: – Peter Jackson
• 2003: Gosford Park – Robert Altman
• 2004: The Hours – Stephen Daldry
• 2005: Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
• 2006: Sideways – Alexander Payne
• 2007: Babel – Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 2008: Not awarded
• 2009: No Country for Old Men – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

2010s

• 2010: Up – Pete Docter
• 2011: Inception – Christopher Nolan
• 2012: Drive – Nicolas Winding Refn
• 2013: Argo – Ben Affleck
• 2014: Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón
• 2015: Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• 2016: Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 2017: The Revenant – Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 2018: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan
• 2019: Three Billboards – Martin McDonagh

2020s

• 2020: Joker – Todd Phillips^[2]
• 2021: Nomadland - Chloe Zhao^[3]

Directors with multiple wins

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 3

See also

• Bodil Award for Best American Film
• Academy Award for Best Picture

Notes and References

1. Book: John Sundholm . Isak Thorsen . Lars Gustaf Andersson . Olof Hedling . Gunnar Iversen . Birgir Thor Møller . Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema . 20 September 2012 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-7899-0 . 328–.
2. Web site: 'Queen Of Hearts' dominates Denmark's 2020 Robert awards. Screen Daily. Ben. Dalton. January 26, 2020. January 26, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200130141635/https://www.screendaily.com/news/queen-of-hearts-dominates-denmarks-2020-robert-awards/5146653.article. January 30, 2020. live.
3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/awards/ Nomadland - Awards - IMDb