Benedikt Erlingsson

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Benedikt Erlingsson
Born (1969-05-31) 31 May 1969 (age 55)
Reykjavík, Iceland
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • actor
Awards Edda Award for Best Director

Benedikt Erlingsson (born 31 May 1969) is an Icelandic actor and theater and film director. [1] He graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 1994 and has been with the National Theater of Iceland for most of his career. He has directed two feature-length films, both of which have won the Nordic Council Film Prize.

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Film and television career

Benedikt was a part of the locally renowned [2] sketch comedy television show Fóstbræður. [2] [3]

He played the interpreter in Lars von Triers 2006 film The Boss of It All , about an owner of an IT company that wishes to sell it after having pretended for years that the real boss lives abroad and communicates with the staff only by e-mail.

Benedikt's first feature-length film as director was Of Horses and Men in 2013. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, [4] [5] but it was not nominated. The film won the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. It also won the audience award at the 2014 Tromsø International Film Festival in Norway. [6]

His second film, Woman at War , an eco-terrorism drama, [7] premiered in 2018. [8] It too was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards for its release year, but it was likewise not nominated. [9] [10] [11]

In 2021, Benedikt appeared as Steingrímur Hermannsson in the Icelandic television drama miniseries Blackport. [12]

Theater career

Benedikt has directed four plays for the National Theater, including Iceland's Bell by Halldór Laxness.

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References

  1. ↑ "IMDb". Benedikt Erlingsson on IMDb. IMDb. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 Lilja Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (13 October 2014). "Sautján ár síðan fyrsti Fóstbræðra þátturinn fór í loftið – Vísir". visir.is. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  3. ↑ Ólafur Guðsteinn Kristjánsson (2004). Ég prumpa því ég er – Um gróteskt uppbrot gamanþáttanna Fóstbræður [I fart, therefore I am – On the grotesque cuff in Fóstbræður] (Thesis). University of Iceland.
  4. ↑ "Oscars: Iceland Nominates 'Of Horses and Men' for Foreign Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  5. ↑ "Of Horses and Men selected for the 2014 Oscars". News of Iceland. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  6. ↑ "Tromsø Audience Award". Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2019-04-19.
  7. ↑ Wendy, Mitchell. "Benedikt Erlingsson on Icelandic eco-terrorist drama 'Woman At War'". Screen Daily. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Benedikt Erlingsson". National Theatre of Iceland. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
  9. ↑ "Фильм, которым можно гордиться: украинскую киноленту выдвинули на Оскар". Politeka. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Kozlov, Vladimir (20 September 2018). "Oscars: Iceland Selects 'Woman at War' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Abbatescianni, Davide (21 September 2018). "The Guilty enters the Oscars race for Denmark, Woman at War for Iceland". Cineuropa. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  12. ↑ Davíð Kjartan Gestsson; Baldvin Þór Bergsson (11 January 2022). "Á sundskýlunni í heimspressunni". RÚV (in Icelandic). Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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