Bodil Awards to eliminate gendered categories

For the first time in 2025, the Bodil Awards in Denmark will be presented without gender-separated acting awards. The categories for ‘Best Male Lead’ and ‘Best Female Lead’ will be merged into a single ‘Best Leading Role’ award, and similarly for ‘Best Supporting Role.’ With this change, the number of nominees in these categories will increase from five to seven. Nanna Frank Rasmussen, chair of the Danish Film Critics Association, says that quality of performance does not depend on the actor’s gender. The Bodil Awards are the first Danish film awards to remove gender distinctions, following the Reumert Awards’ earlier move to non-gendered categories. A new ‘Best Ensemble’ award will also be introduced at the 78th Bodil Awards ceremony to be held on March 15, 2025, at Folketeatret in Copenhagen. The new structure is a four-year trial to be evaluated in 2028.