| Cinema of Norway | |
|---|---|
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| No. ofscreens | 422 (2011)[1] |
| • Per capita | 9.6 per 100,000 (2011)[1] |
| Main distributors | SF Norge 23.0% The Walt Disney CompanyNordisk Film 21.0% United International Pictures 17.0%[2] |
| Produced feature films (2011)[3] | |
| Fictional | 31 (88.6%) |
| Animated | – |
| Documentary | 4 (11.4%) |
| Number of admissions (2013)[4] | |
| Total | 11,802,662 |
| • Per capita | 2.3 (2013)[4] |
| National films | 2,690,110 (22.8%) |
| Gross box office (2013)[4] | |
| Total | NOK 1.1 billion (~€113.8 million) |
| National films | NOK 222 million (~€23.1 million) (20.3%) |
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Cinema inNorway has a long history, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, and has an important stance inEuropean cinema, contributing at least 30 feature-length films a year.[5]
There have been over 1,050 films made in Norway ever since cinema's first introduction to the country in 1907.[6]
Some of these films have been selected for the most prestigious film festivals around the world such asCannes Film Festival,Toronto Film Festival, andVenice Film Festival. Fourteen Norwegian films have garneredAcademy Award nominations. Two of them won the award:Thor Heyerdahl'sKon-Tiki forBest Documentary Feature Filmin 1951[7] andTorill Kove'sThe Danish Poet forBest Animated Short Film in 2006.[8][9]
The first domestically produced Norwegian film was a short about fishermen,Fiskerlivets farer ("The Dangers in a Fisherman's Life"), dating from 1907. Thefirst feature was released in 1911, produced by Halfman Nobel Roede.[10] In 1931Tancred Ibsen, grandson of playwrightHenrik Ibsen, presented Norway's first feature-length sound film,Den store barnedåpen ("The Great Christening"). Throughout the 1930s, Ibsen dominated the nation's film industry.[11] Fellow film directorLeif Sinding was also very successful during this period. Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films.
Notable filmmakers of modern Norway include:Joachim Trier, three time Palme d'Or contender[12] and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, and the creator of the internationally acclaimedOslo trilogy,[13] which consists of the filmsOslo August 31st,Reprise andThe Worst Person in the World;Morten Tyldum, anAcademy Award for Best Director nominee,[14] best known for the thrillerHeadhunters (2011), the 2014 historical dramaThe Imitation Game, and the science fiction dramaPassengers (2016); and other notable directors includingEskil Vogt,Bent Hamer,Nils Gaup andEspen Sandberg.
The Norwegian equivalent of theAcademy Awards is theAmanda award, which is presented during the annual Norwegian Film Festival inHaugesund. The prize was created in 1985. TheAmanda award is presented in following categories: Best Norwegian Film, Best Directing, Best Male Actor, Best Female Actress, Best Film for Children and Youth, Best Screenplay, Best Short Film, Best Documentary (however, a documentary can also win the Best Film award), Best Foreign Film and an honorary award.
The documentaryKon-Tiki byThor Heyerdahl received theAcademy Award for Documentary Feature at the24th Academy Awards in 1951. It is the only feature film inNorwegian history to win anAcademy Award. In 2006 the Norwegian/Canadian animated short filmThe Danish Poet, directed by NorwegianTorill Kove and narrated by Norwegian screen legendLiv Ullmann, won anAcademy Award for Animated Short Film, and became the second Norwegian production to receive anAcademy Award.
As of 2013, five films from Norway have been nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:Nine Lives (1957),The Pathfinder (1987),The Other Side of Sunday (1996),Elling (2001) andKon-Tiki (2012).
Film schools include:
Other alternatives for more theoretical higher education in film include:
There are also several more practical private film collages:
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