Cinema of Norway

Cinema of Norway

Ringen kino, a movie theatre in Oslo
Number of screens 422 (2011)[1]
 • Per capita 9.6 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributors SF Norge 23.0%
The Walt Disney Company Nordic 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
National films NOK 222 million (20.3%)

Norway has had a notable cinema industry for some time.

The first film produced domestically in Norway was a short about fishermen, Fiskerlivets farer, dating from 1907. The first feature was released in 1911, produced by Halfman Nobel Roede.[5] In 1931 Tancred Ibsen, grandson of the playwright, presented Norway's first feature-length sound film, Den store barnedåpen ("The Great Christening"). Through the 1930s Ibsen "dominated" the nation's film industry,[6] with Leif Sinding in second place. Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films.

In the early 21st century a few Norwegian film directors have had the opportunity to go to Hollywood to direct various independent films. As of 2011, nearly 900 films had been produced in Norway, with a third of these being made in the last 15 years.[7]

Notable films

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1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Notable short films

Actors

Directors

Other notable persons in the Norwegian film industry

Awards

The Norwegian equivalent of the Academy Awards is the Amanda award, which is presented during the annual Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund. The prize was created in 1985. The Amanda 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 documentary Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy Awards in 1951. It is the only feature film in Norwegian history to win an Academy Award. In 2006 the Norwegian/Canadian animated short film The Danish Poet, directed by Norwegian Torill Kove and narrated by Norwegian screen legend Liv Ullman, won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film, and became the second Norwegian production to receive an Academy Award.

As of 2013, five films from Norway have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Nine Lives (1957), The Pathfinder (1987), The Other Side of Sunday (1996), Elling (2001) and Kon-Tiki (2012).

Film festivals

Film commissions

Film schools

Film schools include:

Other alternatives for more theoretical higher education in film include:

There are also several more practical private film collages:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Table 8: Cinema Infrastructure - Capacity". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "Table 1: Feature Film Production - Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 "Facts & Figures". Norsk filminstitutt. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  5. ↑ Donald Dewey, "Edging Out of Darkness" Norway’s Long Struggle to Establish a Thriving Film Industry", Scandinavian Review (The American-Scandinavian Foundation), Autumn 2010, pp. 18, 30.
  6. ↑ Nordic National Cinemas, edited by Gunnar Iverson, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, Tytti Soila, page 105
  7. ↑ Smith, Ian Hayden (2012). International Film Guide 2012. p. 177. ISBN 978-1908215017.
  8. ↑ http://www.kosmorama.no/2009/no/
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