Bodil / Best Actor

Winner of the Danish film award Bodil in the category Best Actor ( Bedste mandlige hovedrolle ). The Association of Danish Film Critics and Screenwriters (Danish Filmmedarbejderforeningen ) has been presenting its awards to the best film productions and filmmakers at a gala in Copenhagen at the end of February and beginning of March every year since 1948 .

The most successful in this category were Frits Helmuth (1978, 1990, 1994) and Jesper Christensen (1979, 2001 and 2006), who each triumphed three times. With one more victory each in the Best Supporting Actor category , both of them are also the most frequently honored actors, along with Nikolaj Lie Kaas (awarded best leading actor in 2012 and three times best supporting actor). As the only non-Scandinavian actors to date, the British Paul Scofield ( King Lear ) and the American Willem Dafoe ( Antichrist ) were able to join the list of winners in 1971 and 2010 .

Prize winner 1948–1999

year	Award winners	Movie title	German title
1948	Poul Reichhardt	Soldiers and Jenny	not known
1949	Mogens Wieth	Kampen mod urettes	not known
1950	Erik Mørk	Susanne	not known
1951	Preben Lerdorff Rye	I gave up	not known
1952	Prize not awarded
1953	Per Buckhøj	Adam and Eve	not known
1954	Angelo Bruun	Hendes store aften	not known
1955	Emil Hass Christensen	Ordet	The word
1956	Ove Sprogøe	På tro og love	not known
1957	Peter Malberg	Ingen tid til kærtegn	Be nice to me
1958	Gunnar Lauring	Krudt and Klunker	not known
1959	Preben Lerdorff Rye	En Fremdmed banker på	A stranger knocks
1960	Kjeld Petersen	Vi he all together tossede	not known
1961	Henning Moritzen	Forelsket in København	In love with Copenhagen
1962	John Price	Duels	The duel
1963	Jarl Kulle	Den kære family	Fine people - just like us
1964	Ole Wegener	Secstet	not known
1965	Morten Grunwald	5 mand and pink	Maiden strike
1966	John Price	Naboerne	not known
1967	Per Oscarsson	Sult	hunger
1968	Jesper Langberg	Sådan er de all	not known
1969	Jesper Klein	Ballads by Carl-Henning	not known
1970	Prize not awarded
1971	Paul Scofield	King Lear	not known
1972	Ove Sprogøe	The forsvundne fuldmægtig	not known
1973	Ole Ernst	Flew	not known
1974	Dir Passer	Mig and mafiaen	not known
1975	Ove Sprogøe	Olsen-bandens sidste deprifter	The (presumably) last prank of the Olsen Gang
1976	Prize not awarded
1977	Jens Okking	Strømer	not known
1978	Frits Helmuth	Lille spejl	not known
1979	Jesper Christensen	Hear, var the ikke en som lo	not known
1980	Allan Olsen	Johnny Larsen	Johnny Larsen
1981	Buster Larsen	Jeppe på bjerget	Jeppe from the mountains
1982	Otto Brandenburg	Rubber tarzan	Rubber Tarzan
1983	Ole Ernst	He leaves the country	not known
1984	Peter Hesse Overgaard	Isfugle	Thornbird's cry
1985- 1986	Prize not awarded
1987	Michael Falch	Mord i mørket	Murder in the dark
1988	Max von Sydow	Pelle Conquerors	Pelle the Conqueror
1989	Ole Lemmeke	Heaven and Helvede	not known
1990	Frits Helmuth	Dansen med Regitze	Dancing with Regitze
1991	Tommy Kenter	Lad isbjørnene danse	Make the polar bears dance
1992	Ole Lemmeke	De nøgne træer	The enemy inside
1993	Søren Østergaard	Kærlighedens smerte	not known
1994	Frits Helmuth	This is the form	not known
1995	Ernst-Hugo Järegård	Riget	The Kingdom - Hospital of Spirits
1996	Ulf Pilgaard	Farligt venskab	not known
1997	Max von Sydow	Hamsun	Hamsun
1998	Holger Juul Hansen	Riget II	The Kingdom - Hospital of Spirits II
1999	Ulrich Thomsen	Firm	The party