List of Nordic Academy Award winners and nominees

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

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

Animated Short
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone/Notes
1999	Torill Kove	/	My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts	Nominated	Kove is a Norwegian-born Canadian film director and animator
2006			The Danish Poet	Won

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

Live Action Short
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

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

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
2017	Last Men in Aleppo		Søren Steen Jespersen	Nominated	Producer, nominated with director Feras Fayyad and producer Kareem Abeed
2019	The Cave		Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær	Nominated	Producers, nominated with director Feras Fayyad