# List of awards and nominations received by Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow was a Swedish-French actor who starred in numerous of Ingmar Bergman's films as well as many American films in his 70 year career. He appeared in eleven of Bergman's film including The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), Shame (1968), The Passion of Anna (1969) and The Touch (1971).
Sydow was able to transfer to American films starring as Jesus Christ in George Stevens' biblical epic film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). He later would go on to star in films such as William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973), David Lynch's Dune (1984), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Penny Marshall's Awakenings (1990), Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2002), Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010), and J. J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). He also had a supporting role in HBO's Game of Thrones as the Three-eyed Raven, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for his performances in Bille August's Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011). At the age of 82, von Sydow was one of the oldest nominees for an Academy Award. Sydow also received two Golden Globe Awards nominations as well as two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations. In 1982 he received the Best Actor prize at the Venice International Film Festival for his performance in Flight of the Eagle. He is also the winner of 3 Guldbagge Awards and received a festival trophy from the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. He received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, and was named a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on 17 October 2012.

## Major Awards
### Academy Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1989 | Best Actor | Pelle the Conqueror | Nominated | |
| 2012 | Best Supporting Actor | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Nominated | |
At the age of 82, von Sydow was one of the oldest nominees for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category (for the 2011 film Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close).

### Golden Globe Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1967 | Best Actor – Drama | Hawaii | Nominated | |
| 1974 | Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | The Exorcist | Nominated | |

### Guldbagge Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1987 | Best Actor | Pelle the Conqueror | Won |
| 1988 | Best Director | Katinka | Won |
| 1996 | Best Actor | Hamsun | Won |

### Primetime Emmy Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 1990 | Best Supporting Actor – Limited Series or Movie | Red King, White Knight | Nominated | |
| 2016 | Best Guest Actor – Drama Series | Game of Thrones | Nominated | |

## Film festivals

| Year | Festival | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1976 | Cartagena Film Festival | Best Actor | Three Days of the Condor | Won |
| 1982 | Venice Film Festival | Best Actor | Flight of the Eagle | Won |
| 1992 | Tokyo International Film Festival | Best Actor | The Silent Touch | Won |
| 1994 | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Best Actor | Time is Money | Won |
| 1996 | Valladolid International Film Festival | Best Actor | Hamsun | Won |
| 2004 | Cannes Film Festival | Festival Trophy | — | Won |
| 2005 | Capri Hollywood International Film Festival | Legend Award | — | Won |
| 2006 | San Sebastián International Film Festival | Donostia Award | — | Won |
| 2008 | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival | Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won |
| 2016 | Sitges Film Festival | Honorary Grand Prize | — | Won |
| 2019 | Stockholm International Film Festival | Lifetime Achievement Award | — | Won |

## Critics awards

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2011 | Boston Society of Film Critics | Best Supporting Actor | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Nominated |
| 2011 | Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actor | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Nominated |
| 2012 | Georgia Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actor | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Nominated |
| 1975 | Kansas City Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actor | Three Days of the Condor | Won |
| 2017 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | Career Achievement | — | Won |
| 1967 | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Hawaii | Nominated |
| 1989 | National Society of Film Critics | Best Actor | Pelle the Conqueror | Nominated |
| 2011 | San Diego Film Critics Society | Best Supporting Actor | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Nominated |

## Other awards

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1990 | AACTA Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Father | Won |
| 1988 | Bodil Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Pelle the Conqueror | Won |
| 1997 | Bodil Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Hamsun | Won |
| 1991 | CableACE Award | Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Red King, White Knight | Nominated |
| 1995 | CableACE Award | Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries | Citizen X | Nominated |
| 1988 | European Film Award | Best Actor | Pelle the Conqueror | Won |
| 1993 | Fangoria Chainsaw Award | Best Actor | Needful Things | Nominated |
| 1962 | Fotogramas de Plata | Best Foreign Performer | The Seventh Seal | Won |
| 2009 | Genie Award | Best Supporting Actor | Emotional Arithmetic | Nominated |
| 1988 | Robert Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Pelle the Conqueror | Won |
| 1981 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actor | Flash Gordon | Nominated |
| 1994 | Saturn Award | Best Actor | Needful Things | Nominated |
| 2003 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actor | Minority Report | Nominated |
| 2007 | Village Voice Film Poll | Best Supporting Actor | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 8th place |