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This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Ingmar Bergman.
Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, [1] [2] [3] [4] and is well known for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Fanny and Alexander (1982). He has received various accolades including a BAFTA Award, a César Award and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for nine Academy Awards. His films have won prizes at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival.
Bergman directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over 170 plays. From 1953, he forged a powerful creative partnership with his full-time cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and numerous films from Through a Glass Darkly (1961) onward were filmed on the island of Fårö.
Over his career he has received various honors including the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1970, the a Career Golden Lion in 1971 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1988. His work often deals with death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity. Philip French referred to Bergman as among the greatest artists of the 20th century. [5] Mick LaSalle compared Bergman's significance in film to that of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in literature. [6] His admirers include filmmakers such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.
Three of his films won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The list of his nominations and awards follows:
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1959 | Best Original Screenplay | Wild Strawberries | Nominated | [7] |
1960 | Best Foreign Language Film [a] | The Virgin Spring | Won | [8] |
1961 | Best Foreign Language Film [b] | Through a Glass Darkly | Won | [9] |
1962 | Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | [10] | |
1970 | Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award | Honored | [11] | |
1973 | Best Picture | Cries and Whispers | Nominated | [12] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
1976 | Best Director | Face to Face | Nominated | [13] |
1978 | Best Original Screenplay | Autumn Sonata | Nominated | [14] |
1983 | Best Director | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated | [15] |
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Best Foreign Language Film [c] | Won | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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British Academy Film Awards | ||||
1957 | Best Film from any Source | Smiles of a Summer Night | Nominated | |
1959 | Wild Strawberries | Nominated | ||
1960 | The Magician | Nominated | [16] | |
1963 | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominated | ||
British Academy Television Awards | ||||
1976 | Best Foreign Television Programme | The Magic Flute | Won | [17] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1957 | Golden Bear | Wild Strawberries | Won | [18] |
FIPRESCI Prize | Won | [19] | ||
1961 | Golden Bear | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominated | |
OCIC Prize | Won | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1947 | Palme d'Or | A Ship Bound for India | Nominated | [20] |
1956 | Best Poetic Humour | Smiles of a Summer Night | Won | [21] |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1957 | Special Jury Prize | The Seventh Seal | Won | [21] |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1958 | Best Director | Brink of Life | Won | [21] |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1960 | Special Mention | The Virgin Spring | Won | [22] [19] |
FIPRESCI Prize | Won | |||
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1973 | Vulcan Technical Grand Prize | Cries and Whispers | Won | [23] |
1997 | Palme of the Palmes | For his whole body of work | Won | [21] |
1998 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Won | [24] | |
Un Certain Regard Award | In the Presence of a Clown | Nominated | ||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1976 | Best Foreign Film | The Magic Flute | Nominated | [25] |
1979 | Autumn Sonata | Nominated | [26] | |
1984 | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [27] | |
2005 | Best European Film | Saraband | Nominated | [28] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1959 | Best Foreign Language Film | Wild Strawberries | Won | [29] |
1960 | The Virgin Spring | Won | [29] | |
1968 | Shame | Nominated | [29] | |
1972 | Cries and Whispers | Nominated | [29] | |
1974 | Scenes from a Marriage | Won | [29] | |
1975 | The Magic Flute | Nominated | [29] | |
1976 | Face to Face | Won | [29] | |
1978 | Autumn Sonata | Won | [29] | |
1983 | Best Director | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated | [30] |
Best Foreign Language Film | Won | |||
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1958 | Pasinetti Award | Wild Strawberries | Won | |
1959 | Grand Jury Prize | The Magician | Won | [31] |
New Cinema Award | Won | |||
Pasinetti Award | Won | |||
Golden Lion | Nominated | [32] | ||
1983 | FIPRESCI Prize | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [33] |
Organizations | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 1961 | Foreign Honorary Member | Honored | [61] |
Praemium Erasmianum Foundation | 1965 | Erasmus Prize | Honored | |
Venice International Film Festival | 1971 | Career Golden Lion | Honored | |
City of Frankfurt | 1976 | Goethe Prize | Honored | |
President of France | 1985 | Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur | Honored | |
British Academy Film Awards | 1988 | BAFTA Fellowship | Honored | |
JPMorgan Chase Bank | 1995 | The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize | Honored | [62] |
Bank of Sweden | 2015 | Bergman's portrait is featured on the new 200 kronor banknote | Honored | [63] |
Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times wrote that throughout the 1960s, when Bergman "was considered pretty much the last word in cinematic profundity, his every tic was scrupulously pored over, analyzed, elaborated in ingenious arguments about identity, the nature of film, the fate of the artist in the modern world and so on." [64] Many filmmakers have praised Bergman [65] and some have also cited his work as an influence on their own including:
A Bergman-themed parody spoofs the allegory of cheating death (Bergman's The Seventh Seal) in the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live season 1 (ep. 23, 24 July 1976). The sketch, titled "Swedish Movie", is somberly narrated in the third-person by a Swedish-speaking Death (Tom Schiller) with English subtitles scrolling. The baleful voice-over dialogue, revealed to be emanating from the apparition of Death personified, imposes upon dreamily preoccupied lovers Sven (Chevy Chase) and Inger (Louise Lasser) who send a not-so-silently jeering Death out for pizza.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life includes a sketch based on The Seventh Seal in which middle-class weekenders at an isolated farmhouse are visited by The Grim Reaper.
A television spoof of Persona appeared in an episode of the Canadian comedy series SCTV in the late 1970s. [99] SCTV later aired another Bergman parody, this time of Scenes From A Marriage that featured actor Martin Short portraying comedian Jerry Lewis as the star of a fictional Bergman film called Scenes From An Idiot's Marriage. [100]
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey includes a further spoof on the theme of playing games with Death from Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Bill and Ted are set to play a game with Death. Rather than chess, they play checkers. When Bill and Ted win, Death challenges them to a best of three match, wherein they play Battleship and other games from popular culture.
The Muppets franchise had a spoof of Bergman's style in a segment entitled "Silent Strawberries" from the TV special, The Muppets Go to the Movies . [101]
In Season 2 Episode 2 of Welcome to Sweden , Jason Priestley asks to meet Ingmar Bergman.
Bergman directed two Oscar nominated performances.
Year | Performer | Film | Result |
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Academy Award for Best Actress | |||
1976 | Liv Ullmann | Face to Face | Nominated |
1979 | Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata | Nominated |
Ingmar Bergman, the 'poet with the camera' who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died today on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.