This takes place as both Lili and Gerda relocate to Paris Gerda's portraits of Lili in her feminine state attract serious attention from art dealers in a way that her previous portraiture had not. This sets off a progression, first tentative and then irreversible, of leaving behind the male identity which she has struggled to maintain all her life. The act of posing as a female figure unmasks Einar's life-long gender identity as a woman, who then names herself Lili Elbe. In mid-1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener asks her husband, Einar, to stand in for a female model, who is late arriving at their flat to pose for a painting on which Gerda is working. It received five BAFTA Award nominations, including BAFTA Award for Best British Film at the 69th British Academy Film Awards.
Vikander won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Redmayne was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, while the film received additional Academy Award nominations for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at the 88th Academy Awards. In spite of criticism for inaccurate portrayal of historical events, Redmayne and Vikander's performances received widespread acclaim and nominations for all the major acting awards. The film was released on 1 January 2016, in the United Kingdom, with Universal Pictures handling international distribution. The film had a limited release on 27 November 2015 by Focus Features in the United States. The film participated in the main competition of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, and it was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Elbe, one of the first known recipients of gender-affirming surgery, Alicia Vikander as Wegener, and Sebastian Koch as Kurt Warnekros, with Ben Whishaw, Amber Heard, and Matthias Schoenaerts in supporting roles. The Danish Girl is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by David Ebershoff, and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener.
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