2025 Nordic Series Script Award nominees unveiled

The series nominated for the Nordic Series Script Award 2025 are:

• Denmark: Families Like Ours (Familier som vores)
  Nominated writers Thomas Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen
• Finland: Money Shot (Toinen tuleminen)
  Nominated writer Jemina Jokisalo
• Iceland: The School of Housewives (Húsmæðraskólinn)
  Nominated writers Arnór Pálmi Arnarson and Jóhanna Fridrika Sæmundsdóttir
• Norway: Quisling
  Nominated writers Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen
• Sweden: Pressure Point (Smärtpunkten)
  Nominated writer Pelle Rådström

The Nordic Series Awards includes the Nordic Series Script Award, succeeding the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, and celebrates outstanding writing in Nordic drama. With a prize sum of NOK 200,000, financed by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, it recognizes the main writer(s) of a Nordic drama series that premiered in the previous year.

Additionally, the honorable mention, Creative Courage Award, celebrates the producer and commissioner of a series that boldly pushes creative boundaries and embraces innovation. The Creative Courage recipient is selected from a number of admissions by the Nordic streamers and broadcasters.

All winners of the Nordic Series Awards will be announced at an award ceremony on the evening of January 28, 2025.

Liselott Forsman, CEO at Nordisk Film & TV Fond says:

“Nordisk Film & TV Fond supports Nordic quality and distribution through top-financing and industry initiatives. We have been honoured to carry an award that bears our fund’s name, but the writer award’s new name has more weight in international CVs, as it clearly defines that the prize goes to the best Nordic series script. Another welcome reform is that all series that opened in 2024 are eligible. In these economically tough times, there might be a tendency to play it safe when commissioning. With the Creative Courage Award, we want to shed light on a commissioner-producer collaboration that has resulted in an exceptionally brave and innovative series. I’m now happy to see that we have great candidates in many genres in both categories.”

Cia Edström, Head of TV Drama Vision at Göteborg Film Festival says:

“We are delighted to once again have the opportunity to be part of celebrating outstanding writers of Nordic drama and the ongoing innovation in the region. The selection demonstrates the diversity of stories emerging from the region and signals both the strength of the present and a promising future for Nordic drama series.”

The jury for the Nordic Series Script Award 2025 is comprised of Henriette Steenstrup, Actor and Screenwriter, Norway; Joanna Szymańska, Producer and CEO at SHIPsBOY, Poland; Linus Fremin, TV Critic and Creative Director at Make Your Mark, Sweden.

The 2024 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize winners were Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein and Kristin Grue for the Norwegian drama Power Play (Makta).

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Official trailers:

Families Like Ours

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Money Shot

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Quisling

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Pressure Point

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The School of Housewives

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