Hallvar Witzø (born 1984http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/whqr/files/oscarshorts2012.pdf ) is a Norwegian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. Witzø grew up in the small town of

Leksvik Leksvik is a former municipality in the old Nord-Trøndelag county (now in Trøndelag county), Norway. The administrative center of the municipality was the village of Leksvik. Other villages in Leksvik included Vanvikan, Seter, and Dalbygda. ...

in central Norway. He studied film directing at Lillehammer's

Norwegian Film School The Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (also known as INN University, no, Høgskolen i Innlandet) is a state university college in Innlandet, Norway, established in 2017 from the merger of the Hedmark University College and Lillehammer ...

, graduating in 2010. In 2012, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the film ''

Tuba Atlantic ''Tuba Atlantic'' is a Norwegian short film directed by Hallvar Witzø. The film follows a 70-year-old man who has six days to live, and wants to reconcile with his brother after a lifetime of disagreement. When Inger, his local "Angel of Death" ...

''. However, the nomination was later revoked after the Academy learned that the film was broadcast on television in 2010.

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* Living people Norwegian film directors 1984 births {{Norway-film-director-stub