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List of Nordic Academy Award winners and nominees

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This is a list of Academy Award winners and nominees from Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. This list is current as of the 97th Academy Awards.

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Country	Film
1987	Max von Sydow	SWE/FRA	Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)
2007	Viggo Mortensen	USA/DNK	Eastern Promises
2016	Captain Fantastic
2018	Green Book

Actress in a Leading Role

Year	Name	Country	Film	Milestone / Notes
1929–1930	Greta Garbo	SWE	Anna Christie
Romance
1936	Camille
1939	Ninotchka
1942	Ingrid Bergman	For Whom the Bell Tolls
1944	Gaslight
1945	The Bells of St. Mary's
1948	Joan of Arc
1956	Anastasia
1972	Liv Ullmann	NOR	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Ullman is a Norwegian actress who was born in Japan.
1975	Ann-Margret	SWE	Tommy
1976	Liv Ullmann	NOR	Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)
1978	Ingrid Bergman	SWE	Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
2025	Renate Reinsve	NOR	Sentimental Value

Actor in a Supporting Role

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2011	Max von Sydow	SWE/FRA	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2025	Stellan Skarsgård	SWE	Sentimental Value

Actress in a Supporting Role

Year	Name	Country	Film
1971	Ann-Margret	SWE	Carnal Knowledge
1974	Ingrid Bergman	Murder on the Orient Express
1989	Lena Olin	Enemies: A Love Story
2015	Alicia Vikander	The Danish Girl
2025	Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas	NOR	Sentimental Value

Production Design

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1931	Max Rée	DEN	Cimarron
1955	Tambi Larsen	The Rose Tattoo		Shared with Hal Pereira, Sam Comer and Arthur Krams.
1963	Hud		Shared with Hal Pereira, Sam Comer and Robert R. Benton.
1965	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold		Shared with Hal Pereira, Ted Marshall and Josie MacAvin.
1970	The Molly MaGuires		Shared with Darrell Silvera.
1981	Heaven's Gate		Shared with James L. Berkey.
1961	Eric Orbom	SWE	Spartacus		Shared with Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron.
1982	Anna Asp	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)

Cinematography

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1972	Sven Nykvist	SWE	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)
1982	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
1988	The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1989	Mikael Salomon	DEN	The Abyss	The Abyss
2016	Linus Sandgren	SWE	La La Land
2017	Hoyte van Hoytema	NLD/SWE	Dunkirk		Hoytema is a Dutch-Swedish cinematographer.
Dan Laustsen	DEN	The Shape of Water
2021	Nightmare Alley
2023	Hoyte van Hoytema	NLD/SWE	Oppenheimer
2025	Dan Laustsen	DEN	Frankenstein

Costume Design

Year	Name	Country	Film	Milestone / Notes
1960	Marik Vos-Lundh	RUS/SWE	The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)	Vos-Lundh is a Russian-born Swedish costume designer.
1972	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)
1975	Ulla-Britt Söderlund	SWE	Barry Lyndon	Shared with Milena Canonero.
Karin Erskine
Henny Noremark	The Magic Flute (Trollflöjten)	rowspan=1
1982	Marik Vos-Lundh	RUS/SWE	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)

Makeup and Hairstyling

Year	Name	Country	Film
2014	Love Larson
Eva Von Bahr	SWE	The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
2015	A Man Called Ove
2018	Göran Lundström
Pamela Goldammer	Border
2021	Love Larson
Eva Von Bahr	Dune		Shared with Donald Mowat.
Göran Lundström
Anna Carin Lock	House of Gucci		Shared with Frederic Aspiras.
2025	Thomas Foldberg
Anne Cathrine Sauerberg	DEN	The Ugly Stepsister

Editing

Year	Name	Country	Film	Milestone / Notes
1983	Tom Rolf	SWE	The Right Stuff	Shared with Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter and Douglas Stewart.
2020	Mikkel E. G. Nielsen	DEN	Sound of Metal
2022	The Banshees of Inisherin
2025	Olivier Bugge Coutté	Sentimental Value

Visual Effects

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1991	Mikael Salomon	DEN	Backdraft

Director

Year	Name	Country	Film
1972	Jan Troell	SWE	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
1973	Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)
1976	Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)
1983	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
1987	Lasse Hallström	My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)
1999	The Cider House Rules
2014	Morten Tyldum	NOR	The Imitation Game
2020	Thomas Vinterberg	DEN	Another Round (Druk)
2022	Ruben Östlund	SWE	Triangle of Sadness
2025	Joachim Trier	DEN/NOR	Sentimental Value

International Feature Film

This list focuses on films from Nordic countries that won or were nominated for the International Feature Film award.

Year	Film	Country	Director
1956	Qivitoq	DEN	Erik Balling
1957	Nine Lives	NOR	Arne Skouen
1959	Paw	DEN	Astrid Henning-Jensen
1960	The Virgin Spring	SWE	Ingmar Bergman
1961	Harry and the Butler	DEN	Bent Christensen
Through a Glass Darkly	SWE	Ingmar Bergman
1964	Raven's End	Bo Widerberg
1965	Dear John	Lars-Magnus Lindgren
1969	Ådalen '31	Bo Widerberg
1971	The Emigrants	Jan Troell
1972	The New Land
1982	The Flight of the Eagle
1983	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman
1987	Babette's Feast	DEN	Gabriel Axel
Pathfinder	NOR	Nils Gaup
1988	Pelle the Conqueror	DEN	Bille August
1989	Waltzing Regitze	Kaspar Rostrup
1991	Children of Nature	ISL	Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
The Ox	SWE	Sven Nykvist
1995	All Things Fair	Bo Widerberg
1996	The Other Side of Sunday	NOR	Berit Nesheim
1999	Under the Sun	SWE	Colin Nutley
2001	Elling	NOR	Petter Næss
2002	The Man Without a Past	FIN	Aki Kaurismäki
2003	Evil	SWE	Mikael Håfström
2004	As It Is in Heaven	Kay Pollak
2006	After the Wedding	DEN	Susanne Bier
2010	In a Better World
2012	Kon-Tiki	NOR	Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
A Royal Affair	DEN	Nikolaj Arcel
2013	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg
2015	A War	Tobias Lindholm
2016	Land of Mine	Martin Zandvliet
A Man Called Ove	SWE	Hannes Holm
2017	The Square	Ruben Östlund
2020	Another Round	DEN	Thomas Vinterberg
2021	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
The Worst Person in the World	NOR	Joachim Trier
2024	The Girl with the Needle	DEN	Magnus von Horn
2025	Sentimental Value	NOR	Joachim Trier

Animated Feature

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

Year	Name	Country	Status
2021	Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Monica Hellström
Signe Byrge Sørensen	DEN	Flee	Shared with Charlotte de la Gournerie.

Animated Short

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

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1999	Torill Kove	NOR/CAN	My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts		Kove is a Norwegian-born Canadian film director and animator.
2006	The Danish Poet
2007	Gary Rydstrom (US-born)	SWE	Lifted
2020	Gísli Darri Halldórsson
Arnar Gunnarsson	ISL	Yes-People
2022	Sara Gunnarsdóttir	My Year of Dicks		Shared with Pamela Ribon

Live Action Short

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

Year	Film	Country	Director and Producer	Milestone / Notes
1996	Ernst & Lyset	DEN	Anders Thomas Jensen
Kim Magnusson
1997	Wolfgang
1998	Election Night
Victor	SWE	Simon Sandquist
Joel Bergvall
1999	Major and Minor Miracles	Marcus A. Olsson
2002	Der Er En Yndig Mand	DEN	Martin Strange-Hansen
Mie Andreasen
2005	The Last Farm	ISL	Rúnar Rúnarsson
2006	Helmer & Son	DEN	Søren Pilmark
Kim Magnusson
2007	At Night	Christian E. Christiansen
Louise Vesth
2008	The Pig	Tivi Magnusson
Dorte Høgh
2009	The New Tenants	Joachim Back
Tivi Magnusson
Instead of Abracadabra	SWE	Patrik Eklund
Mathias Fjellström
2011	Tuba Atlantic	NOR	Hallvar Witzø	Nomination was rescinded after it was revealed the short had aired on television prior to its theatrical release.
2013	Helium	DEN	Anders Walter
Kim Magnusson
Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?	Finland	Selma Vilhunen
Kirsikka Saari
2016	Silent Nights	Denmark	Aske Bang
Kim Magnusson
2021	On My Mind	Martin Strange-Hansen
Kim Magnusson
2022	Ivalu	Anders Walter
Rebecca Pruzan
Night Ride	Norway	Eirik Tveiten
Gaute Lid Larssen
2023	Knight of Fortune	DEN	Lasse Lyskjær Noer
Christian Norlyk

Documentary

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

Year	Film	Country	Director / Recipient	Status	Milestone / Notes
1951	Kon-Tiki	SWE	Olle Nordemar		Producer / Editor.
Norwegian film, Swedish recipient.
1971	Ra	NOR	Thor Heyerdahl and Lennart Ehrenborg
2009	Burma VJ	DEN	Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
2012	Searching for Sugar Man	SWE	Malik Bendjelloul		Shared with Simon Chinn.
2013	The Act of Killing	DEN	Signe Byrge Sørensen		Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer.
2015	The Look of Silence
2017	Last Men in Aleppo	Søren Steen Jespersen		Shared with Feras Fayyad and Kareem Abeed.
2019	The Cave	Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær		Shared with Feras Fayyad.
2021	Flee	Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, and Signe Byrge Sørensen		Shared with Charlotte De La Gournerie.
2022	A House Made of Splinters	Monica Hellström, Simon Lereng Vilmont
2024	Black Box Diaries	SWE	Hanna Aqvilin		Shared with Shiori Itō and Eric Nyari

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Year	Film	Country	Director / Recipient	Status	Milestone / Notes
1960	A City Called Copenhagen	DEN	Statens Filmcentral and The Danish Government Film Office

Music

Original Song

Year	Name	Country	Film	Song	Status	Milestone / Notes
2000	Björk
Sjón	ISL	Dancer in the Dark	"I've Seen It All"
Lars von Trier	DEN
2007	Markéta Irglová	CZE/ISL	Once	"Falling Slowly"		Irglová holds dual Czech and Icelandic citizenship.
Shared with Glen Hansard.
2016	Max Martin
Shellback	SWE	Trolls	"Can't Stop the Feeling!"		Shared with Justin Timberlake.
2020	Fat Max Gsus
Rickard Göransson	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	"Husavik"		Shared with Savan Kotecha.
2022	Ludwig Göransson	Black Panther: Wakanda Forever	"Lift Me Up"		Shared with Tems, Rihanna, and Ryan Coogler.
2025	Sinners	"I Lied to You"		Shared with Raphael Saadiq.

Original Score

Year	Name	Country	Film
1937	Leigh Harline (US-born)	SWE	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1940	Pinocchio
1942	The Pride of the Yankees
You Were Never Lovelier
1943	Johnny Come Lately
The Sky's the Limit
1962	The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
2014	Jóhann Jóhannsson	ISL	The Theory of Everything
2015	Sicario
2018	Ludwig Göransson	SWE	Black Panther
2019	Hildur Guðnadóttir	ISL	Joker
2023	Ludwig Göransson	SWE	Oppenheimer
2025	Sinners

Best Picture

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status
1972	Bengt Forslund	SWE	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
1973	Ingmar Bergman	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)
2025	Maria Ekerhovd	NOR	Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi)
Lars Knudsen	DEN	Bugonia		Shared with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Emma Stone

Writing

Adapted Screenplay

Year	Name	Country	Film	Milestone / Notes
1972	Bengt Forslund
Jan Troell	SWE	The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)
1987	Per Berglund
Brasse Brännström
Lasse Hallström
Reidar Jönsson	My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)
2007	Hawk Ostby	NOR	Children of Men	Otsby was born in India, but grew up in Norway.
Shared with Alfonso Cuarón, David Arata, Timothy J. Sexton, and Mark Fergus.

Original Screenplay

Year	Name	Country	Film	Milestone / Notes
1959	Ingmar Bergman	SWE	Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)
1962	Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel)
1973	Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)
1978	Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
1983	Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)
2021	Joachim Trier
Eskil Vogt	NOR	*The Worst Person in the World
(Verdens verste menneske)*
2022	Ruben Östlund	SWE	Triangle of Sadness
2024	Mona Fastvold	NOR	The Brutalist	Shared with Brady Corbet
2025	Joachim Trier
Eskil Vogt	NOR	Sentimental Value
(Affeksjonsverdi)

Sound

Year	Name	Country	Film
1992	Gary Rydstrom US-born, 1/2-swedish?	SWE	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Backdraft
1994	Jurassic Park
1998	Titanic
1999	Saving Private Ryan
2021	West Side Story

Sound Editing

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status
1992	Gary Rydstrom	SWE	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Backdraft
1994	Jurassic Park
1995	Per Hallberg	Braveheart		Shared with Lon Bender.
1997	Face/Off		Shared with Mark Stoeckinger.
1999	Gary Rydstrom	Saving Private Ryan
2002	Monsters, Inc.
2003	Minority Report
2004	Finding Nemo
2004	Paul N. J. Ottosson	Spider-Man 2
2007	Per Hallberg	The Bourne Ultimatum		Shared with Karen Baker Landers.
2009	Paul N. J. Ottosson	The Hurt Locker
2012	Zero Dark Thirty
Per Hallberg	Skyfall		Shared with Karen Baker Landers.
Gary Rydstrom	War Horse

Sound Mixing

Year	Name	Country	Film	Status
2000	Gary Rydstrom US-born 1/2-swedish?	SWE	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
2009	Paul N. J. Ottosson	The Hurt Locker		Shared with Ray Beckett.
2011	Bo Persson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo		Shared with David Parker, Michael Semanick and Ren Klyce.
2012	Gary Rydstrom	Lincoln
2013	War Horse
2016	Bridge of Spies
2020	Ad Astra

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
1971	Ingmar Bergman	SWE	43rd Academy Awards

Academy Honorary Award

This list focuses on recipients of the Academy Honorary Award.

Year	Name	Country	Status	Milestone / Notes
1954	Greta Garbo	SWE		"for her unforgettable screen performances"
2021	Liv Ullmann	NOR		"her bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals"

Technical & Scientific

Technical & Scientific Awards	Year	Name	Film	Status
2009	Steve Hylén	...		Scientific or Technical Award
2010	Sven Heden		...
1991	Bengt O. Orhall, Kenneth Lund, Bjorn Selin and Kjell Hogberg of AB Film-Teknik			for the development and manufacture of the Mark IV film subtitling processor, which has increased the speed, simplified the operation and improved the quality of subtitling
2002	Rune Ericsson			For Super-16
2015	Magnus Wrenninge			(Technical Achievement Award; For leading the design and development of Field3D - storing and accessing voxel data efficiently, allowing interchange between previously incompatible modeling, simulation and rendering software.
2020	Fredrik Limsäter, Björn Rydahl and Mattias Lagergren		...

Number of nominations/wins by country

Rank	Country	No. of nominations	No. of
wins
1	SWE Sweden	82	35
2	DEN Denmark	40	16
3	NOR Norway	14	2
4	ISL Iceland	8	1
5	FIN Finland	2	0

References

(2012-02-29). "Norway's Oscar film candidate 'should never have been nominated'".
"Academy Award Nominations & Winners by Category: Scientific and Technical Award".
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"Lars Laszlo Schüszler".
"Academy Award Nominations & Winners by Category: Scientific and Technical Award".
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"Lars Laszlo Schüszler".
"Academy Award Nominations & Winners by Category: Scientific and Technical Award".
Added by László Schüszler

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