Dansk Film Pris uddelt for første gang i 2003. CIFFs hovedpris hedder Golden Swan og uddeles af juryen blandt konkurrencefilmene. Det er ikke en nem opgave at finde et navn til en ny filmpris, idet der er mange forskellige overvejelser at gøre sig. Svanen dukkede dog hurtigt op som et indlysende symbol. Den er Danmarks nationalfugl og følger traditionen med at opkalde filmpriser efter dyr. I Berlin er det en bjørn, i Venedig en løve, i Rotterdam en tiger og videre rundt i dyrelivet. H.C. Andersen, som næsten er blevet et andet nationalt symbol og er kendt i hele verden, skrev det verdensberømte eventyr om den grimme ælling, der vokser op og bliver til en smuk svane, og således blev det besluttet, at en gylden svane skulle være den nye filmfestivals vartegn. Golden Swan gives til Bedste film, Bedste instruktør, Bedste kvindelige skuespiller, Bedste mandlige skuespiller, Bedste manuskript og Bedste fotografering, og vælges suverænt af den internationale jury.

BUSTER er en international børnefilmfestival af høj klasse, der både får børnene i biffen, skaber et forum for filmfolk, lærere og andre med interesse for børnefilm i Danmark, og som tiltrækker professionelle filmfolk fra det store udland. Center for Børne- og Ungdomsfilm på Det Danske Filminstitut tog i foråret 1999 initiativet til festivalen og nedsatte en arbejdsgruppe med særlig forkærlighed for børnefilm. Den arbejdsgruppe skabte grundlaget for BUSTER og samtidig blev den erhvervsdrivende fond BUSTER etableret med en grundkapital fra Det Danske Filminstitut.

Danmarks ældste film-pris fik sin debut i Københavns fornemme restaurant "Ambassadeur" den 29. april 1948. Arrangementet var sat op efter amerikansk mønster med festivitas og celebre gæster. 'Hovedpersonen' glimrede dog ved sit fravær. Statuetten var ikke blevet færdig hos Bing og Grøndahl, men én af aftenens værter, Mogens Lind, kunne dog fremvise en lerkopi af figuren og lægge op til debatten om, hvad den skulle hedde. Statuetten, der var skabt af tegneren Ebbe Sadolin og billedhuggeren Svend Jespersen, blev senere samme år - i november ved en mindre reception i "New Look" - overrakt prismodtagerne. Og da havde den fået navnet "Bodil". Forbilledet var naturligvis den amerikanske "Oscar" - og da svenskerne var kommet på banen med deres "Charley" kunne danskerne ikke se passivt til. I hvert fald tog Filmmedarbejderforeningen i København, der talte og tæller hovedstadens dagblads-filmanmeldere, initiativ til at lave en "filmens muse" i porcelain og besluttede efter bedste amerikanske model at uddele prisen i en række kategorier, som i udgangspunktet var: bedste film, bedste instruktør, bedste skuespillere (m/k i hoved- og biroller), bedste dokumentarfilm, bedste europæiske film og bedste amerikanske film. Sidstnævnte kategori blev senere til bedste ikke-europæiske film. I forbindelse med "Oscar" er der flere historier om, hvordan den amerikanske branchesammenslutning "Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science" fik navngivet deres statuette. Tilsvarende beretninger kan ikke knyttes til vores "Bodil", men i forbindelse med den første prisuddeling var der forslag om at kalde den "Victor" efter én af aftenens underholdere Victor Borge (et ikke helt gennemtænkt forslag, da man allerede havde besluttet sig til at lade det være en kvinde-statuette). Et vittigt hoved fik en vis opmærksomhed ved at foreslå "Oscaroline", men der var ikke lang vej til forslaget om at opkalde statuetten efter dansk films to store kvinder med samme fornavn: Bodil Kjer og Bodil Ipsen. Pris-overrækkelserne og arrangementet i sin helhed har ved årtusinde-skiftet fundet en form og en stil som tilsyneladende passer til publikum og til omstændighederne. "Bodil" er, hvad hun er. En pris - en anerkendelse - en tak for et bemærkelsesværdigt, positivt bidrag til dansk film og danske biografer. Afleveret i festlige rammer.

Robert ; Dansk filmpris indstiftet i 1983 af de nyetablerede Danmarks Filmakademi, der omfatter ca.: 600 selvindmeldte medlemmer. Robert uddeles årligt og er filmbranchens pris til bedste danske spillefilm og kortfilm, hoved - og birollepræstationer,  og i modsætning til Bodil endvidere til tekniske professioner. Desuden uddeles en pris til bedste udenlandske film og en æres Robert Akademiets medlemmer træffer afgørelse ved afstemning, hvilket gør Robert til en dansk pendant til den amerikanske Oscar . Statuetten er opkaldt efter og skabt af Robert Jacobsen, der spillede hovedrolle i den første danske eksperimentalfilm. (Flugten, 1942).

Europa Film Academy The creation of the European Film Academy was the initiative of a group of filmmakers brought together on the occasion of the first European Film Awards ceremony held in November 1988. EFA was finally founded in 1989 under the name of European Cinema Society by its first president Ingmar Bergman and 40 filmmakers to advance the interests of the European film industry. Wim Wenders was elected as first chairman of the association which two years later was renamed the European Film Academy. In 1996 he followed Ingmar Bergman as president of the EFA while British producer Nik Powell was elected as the new chairman. Since the beginning Berlin has been the seat of the EFA where it is registered as a non-profit making association

Juryen uddeler Grand Prix til bedste udenlandske og danske film i form af en Klods Hans-statuette inspireret af H.C. Andersens eventyr. Statuetten er skabt af billedhuggeren Sys Svinding, og den ledsages af en check på 25.000 kr. Desuden uddeles priser på 15.000 kr. til bedste danske dokumentarfilm, novellefilm og portrætfilm samt til den mest fantasifulde og den mest overraskende udenlandske film. Børnejuryen uddeler en pris til bedste internationale og bedste nationale film i børne- og ungdomsprogrammet begge præmieres med 7.500 kr. Den særlige pressejury vil kåre bedste udenlandske film.

Copenhagen Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (CGLFF) er Københavns ældste filmfestival. I tyveår har festivalen præsenteret det københavnske biografpublikum for et utal af kortfilm, spillefilm og dokumentarfilm med et homoseksuelt tema. Filmfestivalen er med tiden blevet en fast tilbagevendende kulturbegivenhed, der ikke alene tiltrækker Københavns bøsse/lesbiske miljø, men i stigende grad også et ikke-homoseksuelt publikum, samt byens medier, kulturinstitutioner og virksomheder. De senere år har CGLFF desuden vist film i Århus, Ålborg og Malmø. Filmfestivalen er inde i en rivende udvikling. I 2001 havde festivalen for første gang officielle protektorer, og andre end det homoseksuelle miljø annoncerede i programmet, og i 2002 tog vi en del nye initiativer, bl.a. en jury, uddeling af filmpriser, en midtvejsfest, et queer-seminar samt skoleforevisninger.

Der uddeles fem priser under festivalen.

The founding of the Berlin International Film Festival in1951 goes back to an initiative of the three Western Allies in post-war Berlin. The city saw itself ? six years after war's end ? as the "Window on the Free World". There was a general desire to recapture Berlin's one-time significance as an European center of the arts and film culture. In 1950, the American film officer Oscar Martay appointed a preliminary committee made up of representatives from the spheres of politics and film that set the path the film festival would take. Dr. Alfred Bauer, a film historian and film consultant to the British military government following the war, was named director of the festival. On June 6, 1951, the International Film Festival opened at the tradition- steeped Titania-Palast film theater. The inaugural film shown was Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, the picture's star Joan Fontaine being among the highly celebrated Festival guests present.

De gyldne palmer / Palme d'Or Fransk film pris som uddeles ved Cannes-festivalen ( Festival International du Film) hvert år, som blev afholdt første gang i 1946

Amanda - den norske film- og fjernsynsprisen

Oscar ; Navn på American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' pris (Academy Award)  til de bedste præstationer foran og bag kameraet i årets film i amerikanske biografer. Prisen er siden maj 1929 blevet uddelt årligt, nu normalt omkring marts / april under stor festivitas i Hollywood og global tv dækning. Selve trofæet er en forgyldt statuette, der angiveligt fik sit navn, da en sekretær ved synet af den udbrød "Han minder om min onkel Oscar". Der uddeles Oscars® inden for 24 discipliner, organiseret således at akademimedlemmerne bortset fra kategorien "Bedste film" kun kan nominere op til fem personer inden for deres egen faggruppe; i nogle kategorierne - bla. "Bedste fremmedsprogede film" foretages nomineringerne af specielle udvalg. Derefter foretages der endelig afstemning om vinderne blandt alle ca.: 4500 medlemmer, uanset faggruppe. Dansk film har flere gange været nomineret.  Gabriel Axels "Babettes gæstebog*" og Bille Augusts "Pelle Erobreren*" fik som de første danskere en Oscar®. Priserne spiller stor rolle for vinderfilmenes økonomiske succes i USA.

Bronshästen - Stockholm International Film Festival

BAFTA was born in August 1946  when Alexander Korda formed a club with a membership limited to the most eminent names in the British film world. Out of that group emerged the British Film Academy, which eleven years later merged with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form the Society of Film and Television Arts. The article by George Clarke first appeared in the British Academy's 1997 Awards Programme  and celebrates the first half a century of the Academy's existence. The BAFTA Mask is based on a design by renowned American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe.

olden Globes; In the early part of 1944, an impressive number of movie stars happily went to 20th Century Fox Studios to see what a small group of foreign journalists, reporting from Hollywood back to their homelands,  had found to be especially interesting and worthwhile during the turbulent preceding year. Lunch was served in the commissary, and all applauded when "The Song of Bernadette" was declared best motion picture and Jennifer Jones and Paul Lukas took home the honors (in form of scrolls) in the leading actress/actor categories while Katina Paxnou and Akin Tamiroff did the same for their supporting roles in "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Honorable mention went to a few other films, such as "Since You Went Away" with Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, and Shirley Temple, David O. Selznick's celebration of the women who waited at home while the war raged. The journalists, all members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, decided that this would be a yearly event for the purpose of delivering an impartial view on motion pictures and their impact. In order not to be swayed and influenced by the powers in Hollywood--not even the Academy Award choices- -it was important to them that they give their awards before the Oscars. So as not to overlook any important picture or performance, they began by giving a special scroll to the best picture of the month. From these, they would then pull out the most noteworthy picture. The association had practically no money, and it was not until the following year when they voted to honor the film, cast and director of "Going My Way" that they decided to put on a dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel. By that time they had designed their annual award--a golden image of the globe encircled with a strip of motion picture film and mounted on a small pedestal. The Golden Globe was born, and Ingrid Bergman received one of the first of these (for "Gaslight"). And so it went. The basic awards for motion picture, leading and supporting actors and actresses were supplemented with a director's award the second year, an award that became permanent. From the third year and on, some awards came and went. There were Best Film for Promoting International Good Will, Best Film Promoting International Understanding, even an award for Best Non-Professional Acting one year (which went to Harold Russell in "The Best Years of Our Lives"), a special award for "Furthering the Influence of the Screen" (which went to the Hindustani version of Disney's "Bambi") and for a while Best Cinematographer and Best Juvenile Actor awards. Some other awards, most of which were only presented once were Hollywood Citizen Award, Ambassador of Good Will, Most Consistent Performance, Most Versatile Actress, as well as honors for International Contribution to the Recording World and Bettering the Standard of Music in Motion Pictures. Best Score and Best Screenplay awards were introduced in 1947 and remained. World Film Favorite stayed for nearly thirty years (the first favorites were Jane Wyman and Gregory Peck). This was the one award that the members did not vote on. Instead a poll was taken in forty-some countries, supervised by Reuters, to really make it an international people's popularity award. The only reason it was discontinued a couple of decades ago was that Reuters no longer could do it, and no reliable replacement could be found. In 1950, there was a Best Foreign Film introduced for the first time--and the winner was Italy's "The Bicycle Thief." This category was later changed to Best Foreign Language Film. A major innovative change began in 1951 when the leading acting categories were separated into Drama and Musical/Comedy; the following year the motion picture award was split along the same lines. This meant that during the 9th Annual Golden Globe Awards, "A Place in the Sun" and "An American in Paris" both won. Another addition came in 1953 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was created with the blessings of deMille who had been a steadfast supporter of the foreign journalists from the first. A born showman whose films had won recognition and popularity all over the world, he realized earlier than many in Hollywood that there are movie-going audiences in the vast world outside of the United States of America. From 1955 and on, the Golden Globes have honored achievement in television as well as film. The first honorees in the Best Television shows category were "Dinah Shore," "Lucy & Desi," "The American Comedy," and "Davy Crockett." The award show has had different homes--legendary places like Ciro's on Sunset Boulevard, for decades the favorite waterhole of celebrities, or Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, where Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland and others liked to perform. Wherever the Golden Globes dinner was held, the stars from Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne to Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra showed up and had a good time at what came to be known as "the best party in town." By 1962, the general public was invited to share in the celebration through the small screen as KTTV in Los Angeles televised the awards. It was on television some years (sometimes as part of Andy Williams television show), off an occasional year, and the debate in Hollywood went on if it was more fun, as Richard Burton maintained, when the show went black and everybody was totally relaxed in a family atmosphere where sometimes ribald jokes flowed. The Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom has long been the regular place of the event because it offers one of the few rooms large enough to seat over 1100 guests comfortably, and it's three-tiered lay-out translates into good viewing from just about any table. In 1981 and 1982 the show was presented on CBS, then Ted Turner's TBS took over when dick clark productions came in as co-producer with the HFPA. In 1996 the show moved to NBC, and is now broadcast in 125 countries. Even with a technically smooth and high-tech production, this is one award show that has kept a joyous and informal tone. Perhaps one reason is that the award show is preceded by a dinner where celebrities from motion pictures and television mingle and then remain at the same tables in the same room when the television cameras start rolling. Perhaps it is because mutual respect and shared love for creative quests exist between the celebrities and the association members (the latter, all working journalists, have seen nearly every motion picture released as well as television series and films from networks and cable--and then been interviewing and writing about the formers' work for more than forty-five countries). Perhaps it is simply that the Golden Globes Awards from the very first were born out of a wish to create bridges between countries and cultures all around the globe and have, during the years, kept alive a feeling of celebration rather than competition...