List of Nordic Academy Award winners and nominees

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

Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1988	Max von Sydow	/	Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)	Nominated
2008	Viggo Mortensen	/	Eastern Promises	Nominated	Danish from his father side
2017			Captain Fantastic	Nominated

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1929-1930	Greta Garbo		Anna Christie	Nominated
			Romance	Nominated
1937			Camille	Nominated
1939			Ninotchka	Nominated
1943	Ingrid Bergman		For Whom the Bell Tolls	Nominated
1944			Gaslight	Won
1945			The Bells of St. Mary's	Nominated
1948			Joan of Arc	Nominated
1956			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

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

Actress in a Supporting Role

Supporting Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1971	Ann-Margret		Carnal Knowledge	Nominated
1974	Ingrid Bergman		Murder on the Orient Express	Won
1989	Lena Olin		Enemies: A Love Story	Nominated
2015	Alicia Vikander		The Danish Girl	Won

Art Direction (and Set Decoration)

Art Direction and Set Decoration
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1931	Max Rée		Cimarron	Won
1955	Tambi Larsen		The Rose Tattoo	Won	Shared with Hal Pereira, Sam Comer and Arthur Krams
1963			Hud	Nominated	Shared with Hal Pereira, Sam Comer and Robert R. Benton
1965			The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Nominated	Shared with Hal Pereira, Ted Marshall and Josie MacAvin
1970			The Molly MaGuires	Nominated	Shared with Darrell Silvera
1981			Heaven's Gate	Nominated	Shared with James L. Berkey
1983	Anna Asp Susanne Lingheim		Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won

Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1973	Sven Nykvist		Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Won
1983			Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won
1988			The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Nominated
1989	Mikael Salomon		The Abyss	Nominated
2016	Linus Sandgren		La La Land	Won
2017	Dan Laustsen		The Shape of Water	Nominated

Costume Design

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

Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2015	Love Larson Eva Von Bahr		The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Nominated
2016			A Man Called Ove	Nominated

Best Visual Effects

Best Visual Effects
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1991	Mikael Salomon		Backdraft	Nominated

Directing

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

Film

Film
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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.

Foreign Language Film
Year	Film	Country	Director	Status	Milestone/Notes
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
	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			Nominated
1982	The Flight of the Eagle			Nominated
1983	Fanny and Alexander		Ingmar Bergman	Won
1987	Babette's Feast		Gabriel Axel	Won
	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
	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
2011	In a Better World			Won
2012	Kon-Tiki		Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Nominated
	A Royal Affair		Nikolaj Arcel	Nominated
2013	The Hunt		Thomas Vinterberg	Nominated
2015	A War		Tobias Lindholm	Nominated
2016	Land of Mine		Martin Zandvliet	Nominated
	A Man Called Ove		Hannes Holm	Nominated
2017	The Square		Ruben Östlund	Nominated

Live Action Short Film

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

Best Live Action, Short Film
Year	Film	Country	Director and Producer	Status	Milestone/Notes
1997	Ernst & Lyset		Anders Thomas Jensen Kim Magnusson	Nominated
1998	Wolfgang			Nominated
2000	Election Night			Won
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
	Instead of Abracadabra		Patrik Eklund Mathias Fjellström	Nominated
2011	Tuba Atlantic		Hallvar Witzø	Nominated	Nomination was rescinded after it was revealed the short had aired on television prior to its theatrical release.
2013	Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?		Selma Vilhunen Kirsikka Saari	Nominated
	Helium		Anders Walter Kim Magnusson	Won
2016	Silent Nights			Nominated

Best Documentary

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

Best Documentary
Year	Film	Country	Director/Recipient	Status	Milestone/Notes
1951	Kon Tiki		Olle Nordemar	Won	Producer/Editor. (Norwegian film, Swedish Recipient.)
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	Producer; nominated with director Joshua Oppenheimer
2015	The Look of Silence			Nominated	Producer; nominated with director Joshua Oppenheimer
2017	Last Men in Aleppo		Søren Steen Jespersen	Nominated	Producer, nominated with director Feres Fayyad and producer and Kareem Abeed

Music

Original Song

Original Song
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2000	Björk Lars von Trier Sjón		Dancer in the Dark "I've Seen it All"	Nominated
2016	Max Martin Shellback		Trolls "Can't Stop the Feeling!"	Nominated	Shared with Justin Timberlake

Original Score

Original Score
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
2014	Jóhann Jóhannsson		The Theory of Everything	Nominated
2015			Sicario	Nominated

Writing

Adapted Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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

Original Screenplay
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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

Sound Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1995	Per Hallberg		Braveheart	Won	Nominated with Lon Bender
1997			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			Zero Dark Thirty	Won (Tied)
	Per Hallberg		Skyfall	Won (Tied)	Nominated with Karen Baker Landers

Sound Mixing

Sound Mixing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
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.

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

Academy Honorary Award

This list focuses on recipients of the Academy Honorary Award.

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