Susanne Bier adds Emmy to Oscar win. Zandvliet's Land of Mine is this year’s Danish Oscar hopeful. 

On Sunday Susanne Bier made history by winning an Emmy award - Best Director in a Mini-series for The Night Manager. Bier is the first Danish director ever to win both an Emmy award and an Oscar.

The UK/US mini-series The Night Manager based on John Le Carré’s novel was nominated for 12 statuettes at the 68th Primetime Emmy awards ceremony held in Los Angeles. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Bier said: “This is such a traditional men's world, and I hope the fact a woman director has won this prestigious prize is going to mean that more non-conventional series and movies are going to be directed by women."

After Bier’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011 for In a Better World, Martin Zandvliet is the 2017 Danish candidate with Land of Mine (Under sandet). The WW2 drama is in very good hands with US distributor Sony Pictures Classics (SPC), winner of more than 13 Best Foreign Language Film awards (including for In a Better World and this year’s winner Son of Saul). 

Land of Mine is also nominated for the 2016 Nordic Council Film Prize to be handed out on November 1, 2016.The film was produced by Nordisk Film Production with Germany’s Amusement Park Films and support from the Danish Film Institute and Nordisk Film & TV Fond. K5 Media Group handles world sales. 

Read our interview with  interview Martin Zandvliett CLICK HERE.