Norway After World War II, Norway experienced rapid economic growth, with the first two decades due to the Norwegian shipping and merchant marine and domestic industrialization, and from the early 1970s, a result of exploiting large oil and natural gas deposits that had been discovered in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Today, Norway ranks as the has had a notable cinema A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a story conveyed with moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects. The process of filmmaking has developed into an art form and industry industry for some time. After the turn of the century a few Norwegian film directors A film director is a person who directs the actors and crew in the making of a film. He or she controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors have had the opportunity to go to Hollywood Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California - situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los to direct various independent films An independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced mostly outside of a major film studio. The term also refers to art films which differ markedly from most mass marketed films. In addition to being produced by independent production companies, independent films are often produced and/or distributed by subsidiaries of major studios. In.
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Notable Films
See also List of Norwegian films
1920s
- Pan (1922)
1930s
- Den store barnedåpen (1931)
1940s
- Tante Pose (1940)
- Bastard (1940)
- Tørres Snørtevold (1940)
1950s
- Kon-Tiki (1950)
- Aldri annet enn bråk (1954)
- Ni Liv (1957)
1960s
- The Man Who Could Not Laugh (1968)
1970s
- Olsenbanden tar gull (1972)
- Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975)
1980s
- Orion's Belt (1985)
- The Pathfinder (1987)
1990s
- Døden på Oslo S (1990)
- Kjærlighetens kjøtere (1991)
- Søndagsengler (1996)
- Insomnia (1997)
- Junk Mail (1997)
2000s
- Elling (2001)
- Heftig og begeistret (2001)
- Villmark (2002)
- Kitchen Stories (2003)
- Svidd neger (2003)
- Den brysomme mannen (2006)
- Fritt Vilt (2006)
- Reprise (film) (2006)
- Switch (2007)
- Rovdyr (2008)
- The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
- Max Manus (2008)
- Død Snø (2009)
Notable Short Films
- A Year Along the Abandoned Road (1991)
- De beste går først (2002)
- Sniffer (2006)
- The Danish Poet (2006)
Actors
- Maria Bonnevie
- Wenche Foss
- Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
- Kristoffer Joner
- Helge Jordal
- Alfred Maurstad
- Toralv Maurstad
- Arve Opsahl
- Sverre Anker Ousdal
- Bjørn Sundquist
- Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the muses of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award
- Rolv Wesenlund
- Pia Tjelta
- Aksel Hennie
- Ryan Wiik
- Ane Dahl Torp
Directors
- Tommy Wirkola
- Martin Asphaug
- Edith Carlmar
- Ivo Caprino
- Olav Dalgard
- Nils Gaup
- Erik Gustavson
- Bent Hamer
- Gill Holland
- Tancred Ibsen
- Jens Lien
- Hans Petter Moland
- Petter Næss
- Erik Poppe
- Øyvind Sandberg
- Erik Skjoldbjærg
- Arne Skouen
- Ola Solum
- Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the muses of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for the Palme d'Or, two times for the Academy Award, and a BAFTA Award
- Roar Uthaug
- Petter Vennerød
- Svend Wam
- Harald Zwart
Other notable persons in the Norwegian film industry
- John M. Jacobsen (producer)
- Philip Øgaard (cinematographer)
- Svein Krøvel (cinematographer)
Awards
The Norwegian After World War II, Norway experienced rapid economic growth, with the first two decades due to the Norwegian shipping and merchant marine and domestic industrialization, and from the early 1970s, a result of exploiting large oil and natural gas deposits that had been discovered in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Today, Norway ranks as the equivalent of the Academy Awards The Academy Awards are accolades by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world. It is also the oldest award 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 Actress, 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 Documentary film is a broad category of moving pictures intended to document some aspect of reality. A "documentary film" was originally a movie shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video or made for a television programme. "Documentary" has Kon-Tiki (film) by Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (8,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. All his legendary expeditions are shown in the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature Following the Academy's practice, films are listed below by the award year . In practice, due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete at the 24th Academy Awards in 1951. It is the only feature film in Norwegian history to win an Academy Award The Academy Awards are accolades by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world. It is also the oldest award. In 2006 the Norwegian After World War II, Norway experienced rapid economic growth, with the first two decades due to the Norwegian shipping and merchant marine and domestic industrialization, and from the early 1970s, a result of exploiting large oil and natural gas deposits that had been discovered in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. Today, Norway ranks as the/Canadian Canadians are citizens of Canada. Canada is a multiethnic society, home to people of many different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Canadians don't take their nationality as an ethnicity. Aside from the indigenous Aboriginal peoples, who according to the 2006 Canadian Census enumerated 1,172,790, 3.8% of the country's total animated Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion short film Short film is a technical description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short subject. Either term is often abbreviated to short . A trailer for a feature length film is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a "short" for the complete The Danish Poet, directed by Norwegian Torill Kove and narrated by Norwegian screen legend Liv Ullman, won an Academy Award for Animated Short Film The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present, and became the second Norwegian production to receive an Academy Award The Academy Awards are accolades by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world. It is also the oldest award.
Film festivals
- Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen Bergen ( pronunciation ) is the second largest city in Norway with a population of 259,400 as of July 26, 2010. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of 381,000 as of July 26, 2010
- Kosmorama – Trondheim International Film Festival [1], Trondheim Trondheim (historically Nidaros and Trondhjem) is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipalities of Byneset, Leinstrand, Strinda, and Tiller were merged with Trondheim on 1 January 1964
- Tromsø International Film Festival [2], Tromsø
- ØyaKino, Oslo Oslo (Norwegian pronunciation: [ùʃlu] or [ùslu]) is the capital and largest city in Norway. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by a fire in 1624. The Danish–Norwegian king Christian IV rebuilt the city as Christiania (briefly also spelt Kristiania). In 1925 the city reclaimed its original
Film commissions
- Western Norway Film Commission, Bergen Bergen ( pronunciation ) is the second largest city in Norway with a population of 259,400 as of July 26, 2010. Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of 381,000 as of July 26, 2010
Film schools
Film schools include:
- The Norwegian Filmschool The Norwegian Filmschool is the first film school in Norway. It was established at Lillehammer in 1997 in the facilities that hosted the media center during the 1994 Winter Olympics. The school is part of Lillehammer College, which also has several TV courses. The school had new facilities built in 2004. Inside the school there is a cinema and 2 in Lillehammer Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of 2009, the population of the town of Lillehammer was 20,097. The city centre is a late 19th.
Other alternatives for more theoretical higher education in film include:
- Bachelor degree A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world. It may also be the name of a "postgraduate" degree, such as a Bachelor of Civil Law, the Bachelor of Music, or the Bachelor of in Film- and TV-production at University of Bergen The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, Norway. Although founded as late as 1946, academic activity had taken place at Bergen Museum as far back as 1825. The university today serves more than 14,500 students. It is one of seven universities in Norway, the other six being the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and.
- Bachelor degree A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world. It may also be the name of a "postgraduate" degree, such as a Bachelor of Civil Law, the Bachelor of Music, or the Bachelor of in Film Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the seven universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology. In addition to engineering and the natural and physical sciences, the university offers.
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