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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).
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. 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]
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."[7] Many filmmakers have praised Bergman[8] and some have also cited his work as an influence on their own:
See also: The Dove (1968 film) |
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.[42] 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.[43]
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.[44]
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 |
In 1971, Bergman received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards ceremony. 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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4 April 1960 | Best Original Screenplay | Wild Strawberries | Nominated | [45] |
17 April 1961 | Best Foreign Language Film | The Virgin Spring | Won | [46] |
9 April 1962 | Through a Glass Darkly | Won | [47] | |
8 April 1963 | Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | [48] | |
2 April 1974 | Best Picture | Cries and Whispers | Nominated | [49] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated | |||
28 March 1977 | Best Director | Face to Face | Nominated | [50] |
9 April 1979 | Best Original Screenplay | Autumn Sonata | Nominated | [51] |
9 April 1984 | Best Foreign Language Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [52] |
Best Director | Nominated | |||
Best Original Screenplay | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1957 | Best Film from any Source | Smiles of a Summer Night | Nominated |
1959 | Wild Strawberries | Nominated | |
1960 | The Magician | Nominated[53] | |
1963 | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominated | |
1984 | Film Not in the English Language | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated[54] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1947 | Palme d'Or | A Ship Bound for India | Nominated | [57] |
1956 | Best Poetic Humour | Smiles of a Summer Night | Won | [58] |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1957 | Special Jury Prize | The Seventh Seal | Won | |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | [58] | ||
1958 | Best Director | Brink of Life | Won | [58] |
Palme d'Or | Nominated | |||
1960 | Special Mention | The Virgin Spring | Won | [59] |
FIPRESCI Prize | Won | |||
Palme d'Or | Nominated | [56] | ||
1973 | Vulcan Technical Grand Prize | Cries and Whispers | Won | [60] |
1997 | Palme of the Palmes | For his whole body of work | Won | [58] |
1998 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Won | [61] | |
Un Certain Regard Award | In the Presence of a Clown | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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1958 | Pasinetti Award | Wild Strawberries | Won |
1959 | Grand Jury Prize | The Magician | Won[62] |
New Cinema Award | Won | ||
Pasinetti Award | Won | ||
Golden Lion | Nominated[63] | ||
1983 | FIPRESCI Prize | Fanny and Alexander | Won[64] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1976 | Best Foreign Film | The Magic Flute | Nominated | [65] |
1979 | Autumn Sonata | Nominated | [66] | |
1984 | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [67] | |
2005 | Best European Film | Saraband | Nominated | [68] |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref |
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1957 | Best European Film | Smiles of a Summer Night | Won | [69] |
1959 | Wild Strawberries | Won | ||
1974 | Cries and Whispers | Won | ||
1979 | Autumn Sonata | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1960 | Best Foreign Language Film | Wild Strawberries | Won | [70] |
16 March 1961 | The Virgin Spring | Won | [71] | |
24 February 1969 | Shame | Nominated | [72] | |
28 January 1973 | Cries and Whispers | Nominated | [73] | |
25 January 1975 | Scenes from a Marriage | Won | [74] | |
24 January 1976 | The Magic Flute | Nominated | ||
29 January 1977 | Face to Face | Won | [75] | |
27 January 1979 | Autumn Sonata | Won | [76] | |
28 January 1984 | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [77] | |
Best Director – Motion Picture | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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1960 | Best Non-Italian Film | Wild Strawberries | Won | [3] |
1961 | The Seventh Seal | Won | ||
1974 | Cries and Whispers | Won | ||
1979 | Autumn Sonata | Won | ||
1984 | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
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25 September 1964 | Best Film | The Silence | Won | [78] |
Best Director | Won | |||
9 October 1967 | Best Film | Persona | Won | [79] |
29 October 1973 | Cries and Whispers | Won | [80] | |
31 October 1983 | Fanny and Alexander | Won | [81] | |
Best Director | Won | |||
1 March 1993 | Best Screenplay | The Best Intentions | Won | [82] |
Main article: Ingmar Bergman filmography |