Sentimental Value and Mr. Nobody Against Putin bagged an award each at yesterday’s BAFTAs. Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson received an award for Original Score.

Nordic productions supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond (NFTVF) marked a milestone at the 79th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), as Sentimental Value (Affeksjonsverdi) won Best Film Not in the English Language – the first ever BAFTA awarded to a Norwegian production. The film received eight nominations.

Mr. Nobody Against Putin in turn won in the Documentary category, which marks Denmark’s first win with a documentary since The Act of Killing won in 2014. Danish productions within fiction has also previously won BAFTAs for Film Not in the English Language with Another Round (Druk) in 2021 and Babette’s Feast (Babettes Gæstebud) in 1987.

Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson received the 2026 Original Score-BAFTA for the soundtrack of the American horror-thriller Sinners. Earlier this year Göransson was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Score Motion Picture – also for Sinners. Another Swede that received a Golden Globe this year was Stellan Skarsgård, who secured the first Golden Globe to a Norwegian production for his supporting role as film director Gustav Borg in Sentimental Value (CLICK HERE). The film also won six European Film Awards in several heavy categories.

The BAFTA Film Awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and are widely regarded as the British equivalent of the Academy Awards.

Both Sentimental Value and Mr. Nobody Against Putin are nominated for Academy Awards (CLICK HERE), and the winners will be announced during the ceremony on the night of 15 March (U.S. Eastern Time), which will take place in the early hours of 16 March in Central European Time.