List of Nordic Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from the Nordic countries. This list is current as of the 87th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 22, 2015. The list may be incomplete.

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Actor
1988	Max von Sydow		Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)	Nominated

Actress in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Actress
1929-1930	Greta Garbo	Anna Christie	Nominated
1929-1930	Greta Garbo	Romance	Nominated
1937	Greta Garbo	Camille	Nominated
1939	Greta Garbo	Ninotchka	Nominated
1943	Ingrid Bergman	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Nominated
1944	Ingrid Bergman	Gaslight	Won
1945	Ingrid Bergman	The Bells of St. Mary's	Nominated
1948	Ingrid Bergman	Joan of Arc	Nominated
1956	Ingrid Bergman	Anastasia	Won
1972	Liv Ullmann	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Nominated	Ullman is a Norwegian actress who was born in Japan
1975	Ann-Margret	Tommy	Nominated
1976	Liv Ullmann	Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)	Nominated
1978	Ingrid Bergman	Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)	Nominated

Actor in a Supporting Role

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Supporting Actor
2011	Max von Sydow		Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Nominated

Actress in a Supporting Role

Year	Name	Film	Status
Supporting Actress
1971	Ann-Margret	Carnal Knowledge	Nominated
1974	Ingrid Bergman	Murder on the Orient Express	Won
1989	Lena Olin	Enemies: A Love Story	Nominated

Art Direction (and Set Decoration)

Year	Name	Film	Status
Art Direction and Set Decoration
1931	Max Rée	Cimarron	Won
1983	Anna Asp	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won
1983	Susanne Lingheim	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won

Cinematography

Year	Name	Film	Status
Cinematography
1973	Sven Nykvist	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Won
1983	Sven Nykvist	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won
1988	Sven Nykvist	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Nominated

Costume Design

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Costume Design
1960	Marik Vos-Lundh	The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)	Nominated	Vos-Lundh was a Russian-born Swedish designer
1973	Marik Vos-Lundh	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Nominated
1975	Ulla-Britt Söderlund	Barry Lyndon	Won	Nominated with Milena Canonero
	Karin Erskine	The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten)	Nominated
	Henny Noremark	The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten)	Nominated
1983	Marik Vos-Lundh	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won

Directing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Director
1972	Jan Troell	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Nominated
1973	Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Nominated
1976	Ingmar Bergman	Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)	Nominated
1983	Ingmar Bergman	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Nominated
1987	Lasse Hallström	My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)	Nominated
1999	Lasse Hallström	The Cider House Rules	Nominated
2014	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game	Nominated	First Non-Swedish Scandinavian Director to be nominated for Best Director

Film

Year	Name	Film	Status
Film
1972	Bengt Forslund	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Nominated
1973	Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Nominated

Foreign Language Film

This list focuses on films from Nordic countries that won or were nominated for the foreign language film award.

Year	Film	Director	Status
Foreign Language Film
1956	Qivitoq	Erik Balling	Nominated
1957	Nine Lives	Arne Skouen	Nominated
1959	Paw	Astrid Henning-Jensen	Nominated
1960	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	Won
1961	Harry and the Butler	Bent Christensen	Nominated
1961	Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Won
1964	Raven's End	Bo Widerberg	Nominated
1965	Dear John	Lars-Magnus Lindgren	Nominated
1969	Ådalen '31	Bo Widerberg	Nominated
1971	The Emigrants	Jan Troell	Nominated
1972	The New Land	Jan Troell	Nominated
1982	The Flight of the Eagle	Jan Troell	Nominated
1983	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman	Won
1987	Babette's Feast	Gabriel Axel	Won
1987	Pathfinder	Nils Gaup	Nominated
1988	Pelle the Conqueror	Bille August	Won
1989	Waltzing Regitze	Kaspar Rostrup	Nominated
1991	Children of Nature	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson	Nominated
1991	The Ox	Sven Nykvist	Nominated
1995	All Things Fair	Bo Widerberg	Nominated
1996	The Other Side of Sunday	Berit Nesheim	Nominated
1999	Under the Sun	Colin Nutley	Nominated
2001	Elling	Petter Næss	Nominated
2002	The Man Without a Past	Aki Kaurismäki	Nominated
2003	Evil	Mikael Håfström	Nominated
2004	As It Is in Heaven	Kay Pollak	Nominated
2006	After the Wedding	Susanne Bier	Nominated
2010	In a Better World	Susanne Bier	Won
2012	Kon-Tiki	Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Nominated
2012	A Royal Affair	Nikolaj Arcel	Nominated
2013	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg	Nominated

Live action short film

This list focuses on Nordic films that won or were nominated for the live action, short film award.

Year	Film	Director and Producer	Status	Milestone/Notes
Best Live Action, Short Film
1997	Ernst & Lyset	Anders Thomas Jensen Kim Magnusson	Nominated
1998	Wolfgang	Anders Thomas Jensen Kim Magnusson	Nominated
2000	Election Night	Anders Thomas Jensen Kim Magnusson	Won	First openly homosexual couple to win the award together.
2003	Der Er En Yndig Mand	Martin Strange-Hansen	Won
2006	The Last Farm	Rúnar Rúnarsson	Nominated
2007	Helmer & Son	Søren Pilmark Kim Magnusson	Nominated
2008	At Night	Christian E. Christiansen Louise Vesth	Nominated
2009	The Pig	Tivi Magnusson Dorte Høgh	Nominated
2010	The New Tenants	Joachim Back Tivi Magnusson	Won
2010	Instead of Abracadabra	Patrik Eklund Mathias Fjellström	Nominated
2011	Tuba Atlantic	Hallvar Witzø	Nominated
2013	Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?	Selma Vilhunen Kirsikka Saari	Nominated
2013	Helium	Anders Walter Kim Magnusson	Won

Best Documentary

This list focuses on Nordic films that won or were nominated for the Best Documentary award.

Year	Film	Director/Recipient	Status	Milestone/Notes
Best Documentary
1951	Kon Tiki	Olle Nordemar	Won	Producer/Editor
1971	Ra	Thor Heyerdahl and Lennart Ehrenborg	Nominated
2009	Burma VJ	Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller	Nominated
2012	Searching for Sugar Man	Malik Bendjelloul	Won	Nominated with producer Simon Chinn
2013	The Act of Killing	Signe Byrge Sørensen	Nominated	Nominated with director Joshua Oppenheimer

Music

Original Song

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Original Song
2000	Björk Guðmundsdóttir Lars von Trier Sigurjón "Sjón" Sigurðsson		Dancer in the Dark for the song: "I've Seen it All"	Nominated

Original Score

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Original Song
2014	Jóhann Jóhannsson		The Theory of Everything	Nominated

Writing

Adapted Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Adapted Screenplay
1972	Bengt Forslund Jan Troell	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Nominated
1987	Per Berglund Brasse Brännström Lasse Hallström Reidar Jönsson	My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)	Nominated
2007	Hawk Otsby	Children of Men	Nominated	Otsby was born in India, but grew up in Norway. Nomination shared with Alfonso Cuarón, David Arata, Timothy J. Sexton, and Mark Fergus.

Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Film	Status
Original Screenplay
1959	Ingmar Bergman	Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)	Nominated
1962		Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel)	Nominated
1973		Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Nominated
1978		Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)	Nominated
1983		Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Nominated

Sound

Sound Editing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Sound Editing
1995	Per Hallberg	Braveheart	Won	Nominated with Lon Bender
1997	Per Hallberg	Face/Off	Nominated	Nominated with Mark Stoeckinger
2004	Paul N. J. Ottosson	Spider-Man 2	Nominated
2007	Per Hallberg	The Bourne Ultimatum	Won	Nominated with Karen Baker Landers
2009	Paul N. J. Ottosson	The Hurt Locker	Won
2012	Paul N. J. Ottosson	Zero Dark Thirty	Won
2012	Per Hallberg	Skyfall	Won	Nominated with Karen Baker Landers

Sound Mixing

Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
Sound Mixing
2009	Paul N. J. Ottosson	The Hurt Locker	Won	Nominated with Ray Beckett
2011	Bo Persson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Nominated	Nominated with David Parker, Michael Semanick and Ren Klyce

Special Categories

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

This list focuses on recipients of Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Year	Name	Country	Awarded	Status	Milestone/Notes
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1971	Ingmar Bergman		43rd Academy awards	Won

Academy Honorary Award

This list focuses on recipients of the Academy Honorary Award.

Year	Name	Country	Award	Status	Milestone/Notes
Academy Honorary Award
1954	Greta Garbo		Statuette	Won	"for her unforgettable screen performances.”

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