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List Of Swedish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best International Feature Film
Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film are handed out annually by representatives from the Guldbagge Awards jury. Sweden has submitted films for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category since the inaugural award in 1956. The Swedes have sent more films than any other country, except for France, Italy, Japan and Spain, and have only failed to submit a film one time in the past thirty years. 16 films from Sweden have been nominated for the Academy Award: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960), '' Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), ''Raven's End'' (1964), '' Dear John'' (1965), '' Ådalen '31'' (1969), '' The Emigrants'' (1971), ''The New Land'' (1972), ''Flight of the Eagle'' (1982), ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983), '' The Ox'' (1991), ''All Things Fair'' (1995), '' Under the Sun'' (1999), ''Evil'' (2003) and ''As It Is in Heaven'' (2004), '' A Man Called Ove'' (2016), ''The Square (2017 film)'' (2017). Three Swedish films have won the Os ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingmar Bergman & Sven Nykvist
Ingmar is a Scandinavian given name and is a composite of ''Ing'', possibly a Norse god, and ''Mar'', meaning "famous". The name element ''Ing'' is also found in Ingvar, Ingolf, Ingeborg, and other names. Its name day is June 3. See also Ingemar. Ingmar may refer to: * Ingmar Berga, Dutch speed skater * Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director * Ingmar De Poortere, Belgian cyclist * Ingmar De Vos, Belgian sports manager * Ingmar Elfsborg, American Spoon Collector *Ingmar Koch, German musician * Ingmar Lazar, French pianist * Ingmar Ljones, Norwegian politician * Ingmar Ott, Estonian botanist * Ingmar Vos Ingmar Vos (born 28 May 1986 in Rotterdam) is a former Dutch athlete who specialised in the Decathlon and Heptathlon. Biography Competing at a national level since his mid teens, Vos came second in the Dutch National Youth Championships in 2003 ..., Dutch athlete * Ingmar Zahorsky, German journalist {{Given name Swedish masculine given names Scandinavian masculine given nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As It Is In Heaven
''As It Is in Heaven'' ( sv, Så som i himmelen) is a 2004 Swedish musical film directed by Kay Pollak and starring Michael Nyqvist and Frida Hallgren. It was a box office hit in Sweden and several other countries. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Hollywood 77th Academy Awards. Plot Daniel Daréus (Michael Nyqvist) is a successful and renowned international conductor whose life aspiration is to create music that will open people's hearts. His own heart, however, is in bad shape. After suffering a heart attack on stage at the end of a performance, he retires indefinitely to Norrland in the far north of Sweden, to the village where he endured a terrible childhood of bullying. Daniel buys the old elementary school in the village, and soon after is asked to come along one Thursday night and listen to the local choir. He is only asked to listen, and maybe offer some helpful advice, but their intentions of persuading him to help are obvious. He eventually agrees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 75th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 75th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the Academy to a Feature length, feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English language, English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. For the 75th Academy Awards fifty-four films were submitted. Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Chad submitted films for the first time. The previous year's winner Bosnia & Herzegovina did not submit a film. The Brazilian submission, ''City of God'' was considered one of the favorites, but it did not receive a nomination in the Best Foreign Film category. When the film was released the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Danish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Since the inaugural award in 1956, Denmark has submitted fifty-nine films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, fourteen of which succeeded in getting nominated for the Academy Award: '' Qivitoq'' (1958), ''Paw'' (1959), ''Harry and the Butler'' (1960), ''Babette's Feast'' (1987), ''Pelle the Conqueror'' (1988), ''Memories of a Marriage'' (1989), '' After the Wedding'' (2006), ''In a Better World'' (2010), ''A Royal Affair'' (2012), '' The Hunt'' (2013), ''A War'' (2015), ''Land Of Mine'' (2016), '' Another Round'' (2020) and Flee (2021). Four Danish films have won the Oscar: ''Babette's Feast'' (1987), ''Pelle the Conqueror'' (1988), ''In a Better World'' (2010) and '' Another Round'' (2020). The official Danish submission is selected annually in late summer by the Danish Film Institute In 1957, Denmark became the first country to send a film with a female director to the Foreign Oscar competition ( Annelise Hovmand's ''Be Dear to Me''). Tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelle The Conqueror
''Pelle the Conqueror'' ( da, Pelle Erobreren, sv, Pelle Erövraren) is a 1987 epic film co-written and directed by Bille August, based upon the 1910 novel of the same name by Danish writer Martin Andersen Nexø. The film tells the story of two Swedish immigrants to Denmark, a father and son, who try to build a new life for themselves. It stars Pelle Hvenegaard as the young Pelle, with Max von Sydow as his father, and also features Axel Strøbye and Astrid Villaume. A co-production of Denmark and Sweden, August chose to adapt ''Boyhood'', the first part of Nexø's novel, seeking to make an epic and citing the novel's status as essential reading in Denmark. Pelle Hvenegaard was 11 when he was cast, after some 3,000 children auditioned. Like many other boys in Denmark, he was named by his family for the novel's eponymous character. The film screened at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and New York Film Festival. It was critically acclaimed, winning the Palme d'Or and the 1988 Academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
61st Academy Awards
The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988, and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Allan Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis. Ten days earlier, in a ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Angie Dickinson. ''Rain Man'' won four awards, including the Best Picture. Other winners included ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' with four awards, ''Dangerous Liaisons'' with three, and ''The Accused'', ''The Accidental Tourist'', '' A Fish Called Wanda'', ''The Appointments of Dennis Jennings'', ''Beetlejuice'', ''Bird'', '' Hôt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Troell
Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg. Life and career Troell was born in Limhamn outside Malmö, Sweden. For several years, he worked as an elementary-school teacher but started to make short films in the sixties. In 1965 he co-produced the film ''4x4'' and it was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. He became director of photography for Widerberg but soon made a debut with his own first feature, '' Here's Your Life'' (''Här har du ditt liv'', 1966), about a working class boy in Sweden, set in the beginning of the 20th century. The film was based upon an autobiographical novel by Eyvind Johnson. For the film he won the Guldbagge Award for Best Director at the 4th Guldbagge Awards. His next film ''Who Saw Him Die?'' (''Ole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Widerberg
Bo Gunnar Widerberg (; 8 June 1930 – 1 May 1997) was a Sweden, Swedish film director, screenwriter, writer, film editing, editor and actor. Biography Early life Widerberg was born in Malmö, Malmöhus County, Sweden. Career Widerberg was the director of films such as ''Raven's End'' (1963), ''Elvira Madigan (1967 film), Elvira Madigan'' (1967), ''Ådalen 31'' (1969), ''Joe Hill (film), Joe Hill'' (1971), ''Fimpen'' (1974), ''The Man on the Roof'' (1976), ''Victoria (1979 film), Victoria'' (1979), ''The Man from Majorca'' (1984), ''The Serpent's Way'' (1986) and ''All Things Fair'' (1995). ''The Serpent's Way'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and in competition at the 15th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1966 at the 3rd Guldbagge Awards his film ''Heja Roland!'' won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Film, Best Film. Death and legacy Widerberg died in Ängelholm, Sweden on 1 May 1997 of stomach cancer and was buried in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autumn Sonata
''Autumn Sonata'' ( sv, Höstsonaten, link=no) is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. Its plot follows a celebrated classical pianist and her neglected daughter who meet for the first time in years, and chronicles their painful discussions of how they have hurt each other. It was the first and only collaboration by Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman. ''Autumn Sonata'' was the last of Ingmar Bergman's films to be made for theatrical exhibition; all of his films made after it, even those screened in theatres, were television productions. Plot Eva ( Liv Ullmann), wife of the village pastor, invites her mother Charlotte ( Ingrid Bergman) for a visit to her village. She has not seen her for over seven years. Her mother is a world-renowned pianist, somewhat eccentric, aging, and has survived several husbands. Eva is not as talented as the mother (despite the fact that she has writt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborne (; May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American film historian, television presenter, author, actor and the primary host for more than 20 years of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Prior to hosting at TCM, Osborne had been a host on The Movie Channel, and earlier, a columnist for ''The Hollywood Reporter''. Osborne wrote the official history of the Academy Awards, originally published in 1988. Early life Osborne was born on May 3, 1932, in Colfax, Washington, where he was reared. His parents were Robert Eugene Osborne, a public school teacher, and Hazel Ida (''née'' Jolin). Osborne graduated from the University of Washington School of Journalism in 1954. After graduation, Osborne served two years in the U.S. Air Force, and was stationed in Seattle where he acted in local theater in his spare time. At the suggestion of Oscar-winning actress Jane Darwell, with whom he appeared in a play, he headed to Hollywood after completing his military ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenes From A Marriage
''Scenes from a Marriage'' ( sv, Scener ur ett äktenskap) is a 1973 Swedish television miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Over the course of six hour-long episodes, it explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne (Liv Ullmann), a divorce lawyer, and Johan (Erland Josephson), a psychology professor. The series spans a period of 10 years. Bergman's teleplay draws on his own experiences, including his relationship with Ullmann. It was shot on a small budget in Stockholm and Fårö in 1972. After initially airing on Swedish TV in six parts, the miniseries was condensed into a theatrical version and received positive reviews in Sweden and internationally. ''Scenes from a Marriage'' was also the subject of controversy for its perceived influence on rising divorce rates in Europe. The film was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and several other honours. The mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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