List of Nordic Academy Award winners and nominees

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 94th Academy Awards.

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

Actor
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1987	Max von Sydow	/	Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)	Nominated
2007	Viggo Mortensen	/	Eastern Promises	Nominated
2016			Captain Fantastic	Nominated
2018			Green Book	Nominated

Actress in a Leading Role

Actress
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1929-1930	Greta Garbo		Anna Christie	Nominated
			Romance	Nominated
1936			Camille	Nominated
1939			Ninotchka	Nominated
1942	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
1971	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

Production Design

Production Design
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.
1961	Eric Orbom		Spartacus	Won	Shared with Alexander Golitzen, Russell A. Gausman and Julia Heron.
1982	Anna Asp		Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander)	Won

Cinematography

Cinematography
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1972	Sven Nykvist		Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	Won
1982			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	Hoyte van Hoytema	/	Dunkirk	Nominated	Hoytema is a Dutch-Swedish cinematographer.
	Dan Laustsen		The Shape of Water	Nominated
2021			Nightmare Alley	Nominated
2023	Hoyte van Hoytema	/	Oppenheimer	Won

Costume Design

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

Makeup and Hairstyling

Makeup and Hairstyling
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2014	Love Larson Eva Von Bahr		The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Nominated
2015			A Man Called Ove	Nominated
2018	Göran Lundström Pamela Goldammer		Border	Nominated
2021	Love Larson Eva Von Bahr		Dune	Nominated	Shared with Donald Mowat.
	Göran Lundström Anna Carin Lock		House of Gucci	Nominated	Shared with Frederic Aspiras.

Editing

Editing
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2020	Mikkel E. G. Nielsen		Sound of Metal	Won
2022			The Banshees of Inisherin	Nominated

Visual Effects

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

Director

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
2020	Thomas Vinterberg		Another Round (Druk)	Nominated
2022	Ruben Östlund		Triangle of Sadness	Nominated

International Feature Film

See also: List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Finnish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Icelandic submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

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

International Feature 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
2010	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
2020	Another Round		Thomas Vinterberg	Won
2021	Flee		Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Nominated
	The Worst Person in the World		Joachim Trier	Nominated

Animated Feature

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

Animated Feature
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2021	Jonas Poher Rasmussen Monica Hellström Signe Byrge Sørensen		Flee	Nominated	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.

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
2007	Gary Rydstrom (US-born)		Lifted	Nominated
2020	Gísli Darri Halldórsson Arnar Gunnarsson		Yes-People	Nominated
2022	Sara Gunnarsdóttir		My Year of Dicks	Nominated	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.

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 Mie Andreasen	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	Helium		Anders Walter Kim Magnusson	Won
	Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa?		Selma Vilhunen Kirsikka Saari	Nominated
2016	Silent Nights		Aske Bang Kim Magnusson	Nominated
2021	On My Mind		Martin Strange-Hansen Kim Magnusson	Nominated
2022	Ivalu		Anders Walter Rebecca Pruzan	Nominated
	Night Ride		Eirik Tveiten Gaute Lid Larssen	Nominated
2023	Knight of Fortune		Lasse Lyskjær Noer Christian Norlyk	Nominated

Documentary

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	Shared with Simon Chinn.
2013	The Act of Killing		Signe Byrge Sørensen	Nominated	Shared with Joshua Oppenheimer.
2015	The Look of Silence			Nominated
2017	Last Men in Aleppo		Søren Steen Jespersen	Nominated	Shared with Feras Fayyad and Kareem Abeed.
2019	The Cave		Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær	Nominated	Shared with Feras Fayyad.
2021	Flee		Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, and Signe Byrge Sørensen	Nominated	Shared with Charlotte De La Gournerie.
2022	A House Made of Splinters		Monica Hellström, Simon Lereng Vilmont	Nominated

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Documentary (Short Subject)
Year	Film	Country	Director / Recipient	Status	Milestone / Notes
1960	A City Called Copenhagen		Statens Filmcentral and The Danish Government Film Office	Nominated

Music

Original Song

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

Original Score

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

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Name	Country	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
1972	Bengt Forslund		The Emigrants (Utvandrarna)	Nominated
1973	Ingmar Bergman		Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop)	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 Ostby		Children of Men	Nominated	Otsby was born in India, but grew up in Norway. 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
2021	Joachim Trier Eskil Vogt		The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske)	Nominated
2022	Ruben Östlund		Triangle of Sadness	Nominated

Sound

Sound

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

Sound Editing

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

Sound Mixing

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

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	Status	Milestone / Notes
1954	Greta Garbo		Won	"for her unforgettable screen performances"
2021	Liv Ullmann		Won	"her bravery and emotional transparency has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals"

Technical & Scientific

Technical & Scientific Awards
Year	Name	Film	Status	Milestone / Notes
2009	Steve Hylén	...	Won	Scientific or Technical Award
2010	Sven Heden	...	Won
1991	Bengt O. Orhall, Kenneth Lund, Bjorn Selin and Kjell Hogberg of AB Film-Teknik		Won	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		Won	For Super-16
2015	Magnus Wrenninge		Won	(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	...	Won

Number of nominations/wins by country

Rank	Country	No. of nominations	No. of wins
1	Sweden	82	35
2	Denmark	40	16
3	Norway	14	2
4	Iceland	8	1
5	Finland	2	0