2012 in Denmark

Events from the year 2012 in the Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Margrethe II
• Prime minister – Helle Thorning Schmidt

Events

• 1 January – Denmark takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for a six-month term.

Culture

Architecture

• 10 January – Bjarke Ingels Group's 8 House receives one of nine AIA Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.^[1]
• 2 March – Henning Larsen Architects' Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík and C. F. Møller Architects' Hospice Djursland receive two out of eight 2012 Civic Trust Awards given to projects outside the UK.^[2]
• 23 March – 3XN's Stadshuis Nieuwegein is inaugurated in the Netherlands.^[3]
• 29 May – COBE receives the Nykredit Architecture Prize at Nykredit's head office in Copenhagen.^[4]
• 23 October – Henning Larsen receives the Praemium Imperiale Award for Architecture at a ceremony in Tokyo.^[5]

Film

• 8 January – Lars von Trier's Melancholia is selected as the Best Film of 2011 by the US Society of Film Critics.^[6]
• 29 January – At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Mads Matthiesen wins the World Cinema Directing Award for his debut film Teddy Bear and the World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary goes to Lars Skree for his work on the Danish documentary Putin's Kiss.^[7]
• 12 February – Nicolas Winding Refn's film Drive is nominated for Best Film at the 65th British Academy Film Awards but the award goes to The Artist.
• 18 February – At the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, the Danish period drama A Royal Affair takes two prizes when Nickolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg wins a Silver Bear for Best Script and Mikkel Boe Følgsgaard wins a Silver Bear for Best Actor.^[8]
• 3 March – The 65th Bodil Awards are held in the Bremen Theatre in Copenhagen, Melancholia wins the award for Best Danish Film of the previous year.
• 16–27 May – 2012 Cannes Film Festival: Thomas Vinterberg's film The Hunt premiers in competition and the Fanish animated student film Slug Invasion is part of the Cinéfoundation program.
  • 25 May – The Hunt win the Cannes Film Festival.
  • 27 May – Mads Mikkelsen wins the award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in The Hunt.^[9]
• 1 December – Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm wins the award for Best Screenwriter at the 25th European Film Awards.

Media

• 10 February – Laerke Posselt wins the award for Best Portrait at the 2012 World Press Photo Contest for her portrait of the Iranian-born Danish actress Mellica Mehraban taken while she apprenticed at Politiken. Jan Dagø from Jyllands-Posten wins 3rd prize in the People In The News (Stories) category for a photo series from the Tahrir Square in Cairo.^[10]
• 24 April – Borgen and The Killing (season two) are two of the three nominees for Best International YV Series when the nominations for the 2012 British Academy Television Awards are announced.
• 27 May – Borgen wins the award for Best International TV Series at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards.

Sport

• 27 July – 12 August – Denmark at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Football

• 17 May – FC Copenhagen wins the 2011–12 Danish Cup by defeating AC Horsens 1–0 in the 2012 Danish Cup Final.
• 23 May – FC Nordsjælland wins the 2011–12 Danish Superliga by defeating AC Horsens 3–0 in Farum Park after passing FC Copenhagen in the table in the previous round.

Cycling

• 5 May – 2012 Giro d'Italia begins in Herning, Denmark.
• 17 May – Lars Bak wins the 12th stage of 2012 Giro d'Italia.

Handball

• 29 January – Denmark wins the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship after defeating Serbia in the final.^[11]
• 1 March – Mikkel Hansen is named the World's Best Handball Player by the IHF after receiving 31% of the votes.^[12]

Other

• 28 February – Frans Nielsen reaches 300 matches in NHL for New York Islanders in a match against Washington Capitals.^[13]

Births

• 24 January – Princess Athena of Denmark

Deaths

• 1 January – Anders Frandsen, singer and television presenter (b. 1960)
• 15 January - Ib Spang Olsen, writer and illustrator (born 1921)
• 19 March - Hanne Borchsenius, film actress (born 1935)
• 22 March - Kirsten Passer, film actress (born 1930), sister of actor and comedian Dirch Passer
• 16 April – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, shipping magnate (b. 1913)
• 6 May – Jan Trøjborg, politician (b. 1955)
• 29 July – John Stampe, footballer (b. 1957)
• 11 August – Henning Moritzen, actor (b. 1928)
• 2 September – Le Klint, designer (b. 1920)
• 21 September – Sven Hazel, author (b. 1917)
• 8 October – John Tchicai, saxophonist and composer (b. 1936)
• 22 December - Mira Wanting, film actress (born 1978)

References

1. "AIA Award 2012 for BIG's 8 House", DAC. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
2. "2012 Civic Trust Awards Shortlist of Winners Announced". Civic Trust Awards. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
3. "Stadshuis Nieuwegein officieel geopend" (in Dutch). architechtenweb.nl. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
4. "COBE Wins 2012 Nykredit Architecture Prize". Bustler. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
5. "Henning Larsen wins Praemium Imperiale arts award". designMENA. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
6. "US critics reward Lars Von Trier film Melancholia". BBC. 8 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
7. "Factbox: Winners at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival". Reuters. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
8. "Two silver bears to A Royal Affair". Danish Film Institute. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
9. "Awards 2012". Cannes. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
10. "List of World Press Photo winners". London: The Guardian. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
11. "Denmark European champion". Jyllands-Posten. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
12. "IHF: Mikkel Hansen and Heidi Loke are the World's Best Handball Player in 2011!". Planet Handball. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
13. "Dansk milepæl i NHL". Berlingske. Retrieved 2012-02-29.