Robert Award for Best English Language Film

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: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 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

References

^ John Sundholm; Isak Thorsen; Lars Gustaf Andersson; Olof Hedling; Gunnar Iversen; Birgir Thor Møller (20 September 2012). Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 328–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7899-0.
^ Dalton, Ben (26 January 2020). "'Queen Of Hearts' dominates Denmark's 2020 Robert awards". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
^ Nomadland - Awards - IMDb