The full Nordic Council awards ceremony at the new Royal Skuespilhuset in Copenhagen will be hosted by actor Jakob Oftebro.

Dencik and Oftebro who have shared screen time notably in the Viaplay series Rig 45, Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman, and the upcoming Netflix series Black Crab, are some of the Nordic region’s most prolific and cross-border talents, active in film, TV and theatre. .

The Swedish/Danish Dencik is currently on the big and small screens around the world as the Russia scientist in James Bond’s No Time to Die and forensic expert Simon Genz in Netflix’s crime thriller The Chestnut Man.

Meanwhile Oslo-born Oftebro has played the Swedish James Bond Agent Hamilton in the series of the same name, and is toplining the mega-Scandi period drama Margrete-Queen of the North.

Already in 2018 Oftebro was associated to the Nordic Council awards as he handed out the Nordic Council Film Prize to winner Benedikt Erlingsson for his film Woman at War. This year he will lead the entire programme of the Awards ceremony transmitted live November 2 at 20.00 CET on DR and available across the Nordic region via www.dr.dk.

The Nordic Council Film Prize will be handed out by Dencik to one of the five following Nordic candidates:

• Denmark’s documentary Flee by Jonas Pher Rasmussen, produced by Monica Hellström, Charlotte de La Gournerie and Signe Byrge Sørensen.
• Finland’s Any Day Now by Hamy Ramezan, produced by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka.
• Iceland’s Alma by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir, produced by Guðrún Edda Þórhannesdóttir , Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Egil Ødegård.
• Norway’s documentary Gunda by Victor Kossakovsky, produced by Ankta Rehoff Larsen.
• Sweden’s Tigers by Ronnie Sandahl, produced by Piodor Gustafsson.

The NCFP nominees screened at the Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy (September 22-24) and Bio Paradis, Reykjavik between September 23-26.

The films will next play at Malmö’s Best of Norden mini-festival (October 30-31), Copenhagen’s Grant Teatret (October 29-31) and Oslo’s Cinemateket (October 29-31).
The NCFP is organised by Nordisk Film & TV Fond on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers.

The other four awards - each worth DKK 300,000 to be given out by different personalities are the following:

• Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize, handed out by Denmark’s Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary,
• Nordic Council Environment Prize by food and waste activist and previous winner Selina Juul,
• Nordic Council Music Prize by conductor and composer Philip Faber,
• Nordic Council Literature Prize by the heads of government for Greenland and the Faroe Islands, Múte B. Egede and Bárður á Steig Nielsen.

The Nordic Council prizes will be awarded in conjunction with the 73^rd Session of the Nordic Council in Copenhagen.

For further information about the Nordic Council Film Prize nominees, CLICK HERE.