Nordisk Film and TV Fond is associated with four Nordic films that won at the European Film Awards ceremony held in Wroclaw on Saturday.

Hannes Holm’s A Man Called Ove was voted Best European Comedy, making it the second year in a row that Sweden picks up the award after Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.
A Man Called Ove is the third biggest local hit ever in Sweden with 1.7 million admissions.

The Finnish film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki by Juho Kuosmanen took home the European Discovery-Prix FIPRESCI. 

The Danish drama Land of Mine by Martin Zandvliet won three awards for Best European Cinematographer (Camilla Hjelm Knudsen), Costume Designer (Stefanie Bieker) and Hair & Make-up Artist (Barbara Kreuzer). 

Finally Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune won Best European Editor (Anne Østerud and Janus Billeskov Jansen).

A Man Called Ove, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki and Land of Mine have been submitted respectively by Sweden Finland and Denmark for the Oscar 2017 in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

At the Golden Globes nominations announced on Monday at Los Angeles’s Beverly Hilton, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhanssson got an accolade for the score of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival. In 2015 he picked up the golden statuette for the score of The Theory of Everything.

The Emmy-winning British TV drama The Night Manager directed by Danish director Susanne Bier was nominated for Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for TV, and the key actors Tom Hiddleston got an accolade for Best Actor, Hugh Laurie for Best Supporting Actor and Olivia Colman Best Supporting Actress in a Limited series or Motion Picture made for TV. 

The Golden Globe awards will be handed out on January 8, 2017.