Cinema of Norway

Cinema in Norway has a long history, dating back to the beginning of the 20th century, and has an important stance in European cinema, contributing at least 30 feature-length films a year. [5]

Cinema of Norway
No. of screens	422 (2011)[1]
• Per capita	9.6 per 100,000 (2011)[1]
Main distributors	SF Norge 23.0% The Walt Disney Company Nordisk 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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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 as Cannes Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and Venice Film Festival. Fourteen Norwegian films have garnered Academy Award nominations. Two of them won the award: Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki for Best Documentary Feature Film in 1951[7] and Torill Kove's The Danish Poet for Best 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. The first feature was released in 1911, produced by Halfman Nobel Roede.[10] In 1931 Tancred Ibsen, grandson of playwright Henrik 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 director Leif Sinding was also very successful during this period. Ibsen produced conventional melodramas more or less on the model of Hollywood films.

In the modern era, notable filmmakers of Norway include, Joachim Trier, 3 time Cannes Film Festival contender,[12] and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, also the creator of the internationally acclaimed Norwegian film trilogy: the Oslo trilogy,[13] which consists of the films Oslo August 31st, Reprise and The Worst Person In the World. Followed by Morten Tyldum, an Academy Award for Best Director nominee,[14] best known for making the Norwegian thriller film Headhunters (2011), The 2014 historical drama The Imitation Game, and the science fiction drama Passengers (2016). Other notable directors include but are not limited to: Eskil Vogt, Bent Hamer, Nils Gaup and Espen Sandberg.