List of accolades and awards received by Ingmar Bergman

This article is a List of awards and nominations received by Ingmar Bergman.

List of accolades received by Ingmar Bergman

Bergman in 1966
Accolades Award Wins Nominations Academy Awards 0 9 BAFTA Film Awards 0 4 BAFTA TV Awards 1 1 Berlin Film Festival 3 4 Cannes Film Festival 8 14 César Awards 1 4 Golden Globes 6 10 Venice Film Festival 5 6
Totals[a]
Wins	64
Nominations	113
Note Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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.

Major associations

Academy Awards

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.
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
1973	Best Picture	Cries and Whispers	Nominated	[11]
	Best Director		Nominated
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
1976	Best Director	Face to Face	Nominated	[12]
1978	Best Original Screenplay	Autumn Sonata	Nominated	[13]
1983	Best Director	Fanny and Alexander	Nominated	[14]
	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Best Foreign Language Film[c]		Won

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
British Academy Film Awards
1957	Best Film from any Source	Smiles of a Summer Night	Nominated
1959		Wild Strawberries	Nominated
1960		The Magician	Nominated	[15]
1963		Through a Glass Darkly	Nominated
British Academy Television Awards
1976	Best Foreign Television Programme	The Magic Flute	Won	[16]

Berlin Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1957	Golden Bear	Wild Strawberries	Won	[17]
	FIPRESCI Prize		Won	[18]
1961	Golden Bear	Through a Glass Darkly	Nominated
OCIC Prize	Won

Cannes Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1947	Palme d'Or	A Ship Bound for India	Nominated	[19]
1956	Best Poetic Humour	Smiles of a Summer Night	Won	[20]
Palme d'Or	Nominated
1957	Special Jury Prize	The Seventh Seal	Won	[20]
Palme d'Or	Nominated
1958	Best Director	Brink of Life	Won	[20]
Palme d'Or	Nominated
1960	Special Mention	The Virgin Spring	Won	[21] [18]
FIPRESCI Prize	Won
Palme d'Or	Nominated
1973	Vulcan Technical Grand Prize	Cries and Whispers	Won	[22]
1997	Palme of the Palmes	For his whole body of work	Won	[20]
1998	Prize of the Ecumenical Jury		Won	[23]
Un Certain Regard Award	In the Presence of a Clown	Nominated

Cesar Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1976	Best Foreign Film	The Magic Flute	Nominated	[24]
1979		Autumn Sonata	Nominated	[25]
1984		Fanny and Alexander	Won	[26]
2005	Best European Film	Saraband	Nominated	[27]

Golden Globe Awards

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1959	Best Foreign Language Film	Wild Strawberries	Won	[28]
1960		The Virgin Spring	Won	[28]
1968		Shame	Nominated	[28]
1972		Cries and Whispers	Nominated	[28]
1974		Scenes from a Marriage	Won	[28]
1975		The Magic Flute	Nominated	[28]
1976		Face to Face	Won	[28]
1978		Autumn Sonata	Won	[28]
1983	Best Director	Fanny and Alexander	Nominated	[29]
	Best Foreign Language Film		Won

Venice Film Festival

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
1958	Pasinetti Award	Wild Strawberries	Won
1959	Grand Jury Prize	The Magician	Won	[30]
New Cinema Award	Won
Pasinetti Award	Won
Golden Lion	Nominated		[31]
1983	FIPRESCI Prize	Fanny and Alexander	Won	[32]

Miscellaneous awards

Award	Year	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
Bodil Award	1957	Best European Film	Smiles of a Summer Night	Won	[33]
	1959		Wild Strawberries	Won
	1974		Cries and Whispers	Won
	1979		Autumn Sonata	Won
David di Donatello Award	1973	Best Foreign Director	Cries and Whispers	Won	[34]
	1984	Best Foreign Director	Fanny and Alexander	Won	[35]
	Best Foreign Film	Won
	Best Foreign Screenplay	Won
Directors Guild of America Award	1983	Outstanding Directing - Feature Film	Fanny and Alexander	Nominated	[36]
European Film Awards	1988	European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
Guldbagge Awards	1964	Best Film	The Silence	Won	[37]
	Best Director	Won
	1967	Best Film	Persona	Won	[38]
	1973		Cries and Whispers	Won	[39]
	1983		Fanny and Alexander	Won	[40]
		Best Director		Won
	1993	Best Screenplay	The Best Intentions	Won	[41]
Nastro d'Argento	1960	Best Non-Italian Film	Wild Strawberries	Won	[42]
	1961		The Seventh Seal	Won
	1974		Cries and Whispers	Won
	1979		Autumn Sonata	Won
	1984		Fanny and Alexander	Won
	1996	Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award		Won
National Board of Review	1959	Best Foreign Language Film	Wild Strawberries	Won	[43]
	1969	Best Foreign Language Film	Shame	Won	[43]
	1973	Best Director	Cries and Whispers	Won	[44]
	Best Foreign Language Film	Won
	1976	Best Foreign Language Film	Scenes from a Marriage	Nominated	[45]
	1978	Best Foreign Language Film	Autumn Sonata	Won	[46]
	Best Director	Won
	1984	Best Foreign Language Film	Fanny and Alexander	Won	[43]
National Society of Film Critics	1968	Best Film	Persona	Won	[47]
		Best Director		Won
		Best Screenplay		2nd Place
	1968	Best Film	Shame	Won	[48]
		Best Director[d]		Won
		Best Screenplay		2nd Place
	1971	Best Director	The Passion of Anna	Won
	1972	Best Screenplay	Cries and Whispers	Won	[49]
	1975	Best Film	Scenes from a Marriage	Won	[50][51]
	Best Director	Runner-up
	Best Screenplay	Won
	1975	Special Award	The Magic Flute	Won	[52]
New York Film Critics Circle	1973	Best Film	Cries and Whispers	Won	[53]
	Best Director	Won
	Best Screenplay	Won
	1974	Best Film	Scenes from a Marriage	Runner-up	[54][55]
		Best Director		Runner-up
		Best Screenplay		Won
	1978	Best Director	Autumn Sonata	3rd place	[56]
	Best Foreign Language Film	2nd place
	1983	Best Film	Fanny and Alexander	Won	[57]
	Best Foreign Language Film	Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association	1976	Best Foreign Language Film	Face to Face	Won	[58]
	1984	Best Foreign Language Film	Fanny and Alexander	Won	[59]

Honorary awards

Organizations	Year	Award	Result	Ref.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences	1961	Foreign Honorary Member	Honored	[60]
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	[61]
Bank of Sweden	2015	Bergman's portrait is featured on the new 200 kronor banknote	Honored	[62]

Reception and recognition

Bust of Ingmar Bergman in Celebrity Alley in Kielce, Poland

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."^[63] Many filmmakers have praised Bergman^[64] and some have also cited his work as an influence on their own including:

• Andrei Tarkovsky^[e][65][66]
• Alejandro González Iñárritu^[f][67]
• Bertrand Tavernier^[g][2]
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan^[68]
• Steven Soderbergh^[69]
• David Lynch^[69]
• Wes Craven^[70][71]
• Pedro Almodóvar^[72]
• Jean-Luc Godard^[73]
• Robert Altman^[74]
• Adoor Gopalakrishnan^[75][76]
• Olivier Assayas^[77]
• Francis Ford Coppola^[h][78]
• Guillermo del Toro^[i][79]
• Asghar Farhadi^[80]
• Todd Field^[j][81]
• Federico Fellini^[k][82]
• Woody Allen^[l][83]
• Krzysztof Kieślowski^[m][85]
• Stanley Kubrick^[n][64][86]
• Ang Lee^{[o][87][88][89][90]}
• François Ozon^[77]
• Park Chan-wook^[77]
• Éric Rohmer^[p][77]
• Marjane Satrapi^[77]
• Mamoru Oshii^[91]
• Paul Schrader^[q][92]
• Martin Scorsese^[r][93]
• Steven Spielberg^[s][94]
• Satyajit Ray^[t][95]
• André Téchiné^[77]
• Liv Ullmann^[96]
• Lars von Trier^[u][97]

Legacy in popular culture

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.^[98] 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.^[99]

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.^[100]

In Season 2 Episode 2 of Welcome to Sweden, Jason Priestley asks to meet Ingmar Bergman.

Directed Academy Award performances

Bergman directed two Oscar nominated performances.

Year	Performer	Film	Result
Academy Award for Best Actress
1976	Liv Ullmann	Face to Face	Nominated
1979	Ingrid Bergman	Autumn Sonata	Nominated

Exhibitions

• Ingmar Bergman.The Image Maker,^[101] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2012
• Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions,^[102] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2012

See also

Main article: Ingmar Bergman filmography

• Cinema of Sweden
• List of film collaborations