# List of accolades and awards received by Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre and radio. He is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time, and is well known for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
Bergman directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television, most of which he also wrote. He also directed over 170 plays. From 1953, he forged a powerful creative partnership with his full-time cinematographer Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet and Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and numerous films from Through a Glass Darkly (1961) onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. His work often deals with death, illness, faith, betrayal, bleakness and insanity.
Philip French referred to Bergman as among the greatest artists of the 20th century. Mick LaSalle compared Bergman's significance in film to that of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in literature.

## List of accolades

Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times wrote that throughout the 1960s, when Bergman "was considered pretty much the last word in cinematic profundity, his every tic was scrupulously pored over, analyzed, elaborated in ingenious arguments about identity, the nature of film, the fate of the artist in the modern world and so on." Many filmmakers have praised Bergman and some have also cited his work as an influence on their own:
* Andrei Tarkovsky held Bergman in very high regard, noting him and Robert Bresson as his two favourite filmmakers, stating: "I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman." Such was Bergman's influence, Tarkovsky's last film was made in Sweden with Sven Nykvist, Bergman's longtime cinematographer, and several of Bergman's favoured actors including Erland Josephson. Bergman likewise had great respect for Tarkovsky, stating: "Tarkovsky for me is the greatest director."
* Alejandro González Iñárritu while entering the Berg-man compound (Bergman's house) on the remote island of Fårö for a documentary called Trespassing Bergman stated "If cinema was a religion, this would be Mecca, the Vatican. This is the center of it all."
* Bertrand Tavernier stated: "Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics — religion, death, existentialism — to the screen ... but the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity."
* Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* Steven Soderbergh
* David Lynch
* Wes Craven
* Pedro Almodóvar
* Jean-Luc Godard
* Robert Altman
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan
* Olivier Assayas
* Francis Ford Coppola stated: "My all-time favorite because he embodies passion, emotion and has warmth."
* Guillermo del Toro said: "Bergman as a fabulist — my favorite — is absolutely mesmerizing."
* Asghar Farhadi
* Todd Field stated: "He was our tunnel man building the aqueducts of our cinematic collective unconscious."
* Federico Fellini said: "I have a profound admiration for him (Bergman) and for his work, even though I haven't seen all of his films. First of all, he is a master of his métier. Secondly, he is able to make things mysterious, compelling, colorful and, at times, repulsive."
* Woody Allen has referred to Bergman as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera". He said, "For me it was Wild Strawberries. Then The Seventh Seal and The Magician. That whole group of films that came out then told us that Bergman was a magical filmmaker. There had never been anything like it, this combination of intellectual artist and film technician. His technique was sensational." Allen has credited Bergman with inventing "a film vocabulary that suited what he wanted to say, that had never really been done before. He'd put the camera on one person's face close and leave it there, and just leave it there and leave it there. It was the opposite of what you learned to do in film school, but it was enormously effective and entertaining."
* Krzysztof Kieślowski stated: "This man is one of the few film directors — perhaps the only one in the world — to have said as much about human nature as Dostoyevsky or Camus."
* Stanley Kubrick stated: "I believe Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original material written for them." Kubrick praised Bergman as "The Greatest film-maker, unsurpassed by anyone in the creation of mood and atmosphere, the subtlety of performance, the avoidance of the obvious, the truthfulness and completeness of characterization."
* Ang Lee stated: "For me the filmmaker Bergman is the greatest performer of all...", "He (Bergman) is like God to me. I will take inspiration. I won't dare to imitate"
* François Ozon
* Park Chan-wook
* Éric Rohmer stated: "The Seventh Seal is the most beautiful film ever."
* Marjane Satrapi
* Mamoru Oshii
* Paul Schrader stated: "I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman. What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director. I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value."
* Martin Scorsese said: "I guess I'd put it like this: if you were alive in the '50s and the '60s and of a certain age, a teenager on your way to becoming an adult, and you wanted to make films, I don't see how you couldn't be influenced by Bergman. You would have had to make a conscious effort, and even then, the influence would have snuck through."
* Steven Spielberg stated: "His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience."
* Satyajit Ray stated: "I have great admiration for Bergman...It's Bergman whom I continue to be fascinated by. I think he's remarkable. I envy his stock company, because given actors like that one could do extraordinary things."
* André Téchiné
* Liv Ullmann
* Lars von Trier, in reference to having once sent Bergman a letter, jokingly said, "I have seen all his movies, he is a great source of inspiration to me. He was like a father to me. But he treated me in the same way he treated all his children. No interest whatsoever!"

## Legacy accolades in popular culture

A Bergman-themed parody spoofs the allegory of cheating death (Bergman's The Seventh Seal) in the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live season 1 (ep. 23, 24 July 1976). The sketch, titled "Swedish Movie", is somberly narrated in the third-person by a Swedish-speaking Death (Tom Schiller) with English subtitles scrolling. The baleful voice-over dialogue, revealed to be emanating from the apparition of Death personified, imposes upon dreamily preoccupied lovers Sven (Chevy Chase) and Inger (Louise Lasser) who send a not-so-silently jeering Death out for pizza.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life includes a sketch based on The Seventh Seal in which middle-class weekenders at an isolated farmhouse are visited by The Grim Reaper.
A television spoof of Persona appeared in an episode of the Canadian comedy series SCTV in the late 1970s. SCTV later aired another Bergman parody, this time of Scenes From A Marriage that featured actor Martin Short portraying comedian Jerry Lewis as the star of a fictional Bergman film called Scenes From An Idiot's Marriage.
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey includes a further spoof on the theme of playing games with Death from Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Bill and Ted are set to play a game with Death. Rather than chess, they play checkers. When Bill and Ted win, Death challenges them to a best of three match, wherein they play Battleship and other games from popular culture.
The Muppets franchise had a spoof of Bergman's style in a segment entitled "Silent Strawberries" from the TV special, The Muppets Go to the Movies.
In Season 2 Episode 2 of Welcome to Sweden, Jason Priestley asks to meet Ingmar Bergman.

## Directed Academy Award performances

Bergman directed two Oscar nominated performances.
| Year | Performer | Film | Result |
| Academy Award for Best Actress ||||
| 1976 | Liv Ullmann | Face to Face | Nominated |
| 1979 | Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata | Nominated |

## Awards and nominations
### Academy Awards

In 1971, Bergman received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the Academy Awards ceremony. Three of his films won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The list of his nominations and awards follows:
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 4 April 1960 | Best Original Screenplay | Wild Strawberries | Nominated |
| 8 April 1963 | Best Original Screenplay | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominated |
| 2 April 1974 | Best Picture | Cries and Whispers | Nominated |
| 2 April 1974 | Best Director | Cries and Whispers | Nominated |
| 2 April 1974 | Best Original Screenplay | Cries and Whispers | Nominated |
| 28 March 1977 | Best Director | Face to Face | Nominated |
| 9 April 1979 | Best Original Screenplay | Autumn Sonata | Nominated |
| 9 April 1984 | Best Director | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated |
| 9 April 1984 | Best Original Screenplay | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated |

### BAFTA Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Best Film from any Source | Smiles of a Summer Night | Nominated |
| 1959 | Best Film from any Source | Wild Strawberries | Nominated |
| 1960 | Best Film from any Source | The Magician | Nominated |
| 1963 | Best Film from any Source | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominated |

### Berlin Film Festival

* Won: Golden Bear for Best Film, Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), 1957
* Won: FIPRESCI Prize, Wild Strawberries, 1957
* Nominated: Golden Bear for Best Film, Through a Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel), 1961
* Won: OCIC Prize, Through a Glass Darkly, 1961

### Cannes Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1947 | Palme d'Or | A Ship Bound for India | Nominated |
| 1956 | Best Poetic Humour | Smiles of a Summer Night | Won |
| 1956 | Palme d'Or | Smiles of a Summer Night | Nominated |
| 1957 | Special Jury Prize | The Seventh Seal | Won |
| 1957 | Palme d'Or | The Seventh Seal | Nominated |
| 1958 | Best Director | Brink of Life | Won |
| 1958 | Palme d'Or | Brink of Life | Nominated |
| 1960 | Special Mention | The Virgin Spring | Won |
| 1960 | FIPRESCI Prize | The Virgin Spring | Won |
| 1960 | Palme d'Or | The Virgin Spring | Nominated |
| 1973 | Vulcan Technical Grand Prize | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 1997 | Palme of the Palmes | For his whole body of work | Won |
| 1998 | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | For his whole body of work | Won |
| 1998 | Un Certain Regard Award | In the Presence of a Clown | Nominated |

### Venice Film Festival

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1958 | Pasinetti Award | Wild Strawberries | Won |
| 1959 | Grand Jury Prize | The Magician | Won |
| 1959 | New Cinema Award | The Magician | Won |
| 1959 | Pasinetti Award | The Magician | Won |
| 1959 | Golden Lion | The Magician | Nominated |
| 1983 | FIPRESCI Prize | Fanny and Alexander | Won |

### Cesar Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1976 | Best Foreign Film | The Magic Flute | Nominated |
| 1979 | Best Foreign Film | Autumn Sonata | Nominated |
| 1984 | Best Foreign Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 2005 | Best European Film | Saraband | Nominated |

### Bodil Award

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1957 | Best European Film | Smiles of a Summer Night | Won |
| 1959 | Best European Film | Wild Strawberries | Won |
| 1974 | Best European Film | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 1979 | Best European Film | Autumn Sonata | Won |

### Golden Globe Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. |
| 28 January 1984 | Fanny and Alexander | Best Director | Nominated | |

### Nastro d'Argento

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1960 | Best Non-Italian Film | Wild Strawberries | Won |
| 1961 | Best Non-Italian Film | The Seventh Seal | Won |
| 1974 | Best Non-Italian Film | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 1979 | Best Non-Italian Film | Autumn Sonata | Won |
| 1984 | Best Non-Italian Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |

### Guldbagge Awards

| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 25 September 1964 | Best Film | The Silence | Won |
| 25 September 1964 | Best Director | The Silence | Won |
| 9 October 1967 | Best Film | Persona | Won |
| 29 October 1973 | Best Film | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 31 October 1983 | Best Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 31 October 1983 | Best Director | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1 March 1993 | Best Screenplay | The Best Intentions | Won |

### Other awards and honours

* Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1961
* Erasmus Prize, 1965
* The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, 1995
* Career Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, 1971
* Goethe Prize, 1976
* Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur, 1985
* BAFTA Fellowship, 1988
* Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale, 1991
* On 6 April 2011, the Bank of Sweden announced that Bergman's portrait is featured on the new 200 kronor banknote, which was issued in 2015.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1959 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Wild Strawberries | Won |
| January 1968 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director | Persona | Won |
| January 1968 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film | Persona | Won |
| January 1968 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay | Persona | 2nd Place |
| January 1969 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director | Shame | Won (for two films other one Hour of the Wolf) |
| January 1969 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay | Shame | 2nd Place |
| January 1969 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film | Shame | Won |
| 1969 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Shame | Won |
| 1971 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director | The Passion of Anna | Won |
| 1973 | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 24 December 1973 | National Board of Review Award for Best Director | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 24 December 1973 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 29 December 1972 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 3 January 1973 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 3 January 1973 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 3 January 1973 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay | Cries and Whispers | Won |
| 5 January 1975 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay | Scenes from a Marriage | Won |
| 5 January 1975 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film | Scenes from a Marriage | Won |
| 5 January 1975 | National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director | Scenes from a Marriage | Runner-up |
| 28 January 1975 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | Scenes from a Marriage | Runner-up |
| 28 January 1975 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay | Scenes from a Marriage | Won |
| 28 January 1975 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film | Scenes from a Marriage | Runner-up |
| December 21, 1976 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Face to Face | Won |
| 22 December 1976 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Face to Face | Nominated |
| 1976 | British Academy Television Award for Best Foreign Television Programme | The Magic Flute | Won |
| 29 December 1975 | National Society of Film Critics Special Award | The Magic Flute | Won |
| 19 December 1978 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Autumn Sonata | Won |
| 19 December 1978 | National Board of Review Award for Best Director | Autumn Sonata | Won |
| 28 January 1979 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | Autumn Sonata | 3rd place |
| 28 January 1979 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Autumn Sonata | 2nd place |
| 1983 | Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Fanny and Alexander | Nominated |
| 29 January 1984 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 29 January 1984 | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1984 | National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1984 | Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Foreign Language Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1984 | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1984 | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1984 | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Screenplay | Fanny and Alexander | Won |
| 1988 | European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award | European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |
| 1996 | Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award | Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement Award | Won |

## Exhibitions

* Ingmar Bergman.The Image Maker, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2012
* Ingmar Bergman: The Man Who Asked Hard Questions, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2012