Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson.
 Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it is about an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband, who asks her to have sex with other men when he becomes immobilized from a work accident.
 The film is an international co-production led by Lars von Trier's Danish company Zentropa.
 It is the first film in Trier's Golden Heart Trilogy which also includes "The Idiots" (1998) and "Dancer in the Dark" (2000).
Michael C. Flessas (born June 2, 1959 in Miami, Florida), is the birth name of American actor Michael Flessas, who is of Greek ancestry.
 Flessas' most notable film role was "Angry Man" in the Cannes Film Festival 2000 Palme d'Or winning film "Dancer in the Dark" directed by Danish film director Lars von Trier.
 Originally, the director himself considered playing the role but, instead, the role was given to Flessas.
 "Dancer in the Dark" starred Icelandic singer/actress Björk who won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role.
 French film icon, César Award winner, and Academy Award nominee Catherine Deneuve, and other noteworthy artists such as Academy Award and Tony Award winner Joel Grey, Peter Stormare, David Morse, and Stellan Skarsgård also performed in the multiple prize winning film.
 One of Björk's songs for the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.
The 50th Bodil Awards ceremony was held in 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best national and foreign films of 1996.
 Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves" won the award for Best Danish Film and Emily Watson and Katrin Cartlidge  won the awards for best leading and supporting actresses.
 Max von Sydow for his role in "Hamsun" and Zlatko Buric won the award for best supporting actor for his role in "Pusher".
 Bodil Kjær, one of the two film people named Bodil for whom the statuette is named, the other being Bodil Ipsen, reveived an Bodil Honorary Award, bringing her total number of Bodil wins up to four.
Emily Margaret Watson, OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress.
 She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as Bess McNeil in Lars von Trier's "Breaking the Waves" (1996) and for her role as Jacqueline du Pré in "Hilary and Jackie" (1998), winning the BIFA Award for Best Actress for the latter.
 She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for playing Janet Leach in the 2011 ITV television biopic "Appropriate Adult".
Breaking the Waves is an opera in three acts by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.
 It is based on the 1996 film of the same name by Danish auteur Lars von Trier.
 The opera was first performed on September 22, 2016, by Opera Philadelphia.
The 65th Bodil Awards were held on 3 March 2012 in the Bremen Theater in Copenhagen, Denmark, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2010.
 Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" won the awards for Best Danish Film and Best Cinematography (Alberto Claro).
 The only other multiple winner was "A Funny Man", which took the awards for Best Actor (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), Best Supporting Actor (Lars Ranthe) and Best Set Design (Charlotte Bay Garnov and Peter Grant).
 It also won the new Audience Award which was introduced this year in collaboration with Blockbuster.
 The awards for Best Leading and Supporting Actresses went to Lena Maria Christensen won the award for Best Actress for her performance in "A Family" and Paprika Steen won Best Supporting Actress for "SuperClásico". "
Testamentet" directed by Christian Sønderby Jepsen earned the award for Best Documentary. "
Winter's Bone" was named Best American Film while the Iranian "A Separation" was selected as Best Non-American Film.
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is a British-French actress and singer.
 She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
 After making her musical debut with her father on the song "Lemon Incest" at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15.
 More than 20 years passed before she released three albums as an adult ("", "IRM" and "Stage Whisper") to commercial and critical success.
 Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award.
Peter Raeburn is a British composer, music producer and songwriter.
 He is well known for his work with director Jonathan Glazer’s films "Sexy Beast," "Birth" and the BAFTA nominated "Under The Skin".
 Peter also helped shape the soundtrack of Lars Von Trier’s "Breaking The Waves" and composed the music for Raoul Martinez and Joshua Van Praag's Creating Freedom: Lottery of Birth, which was nominated for Best Documentary at Raindance Film Festival.
The Five Obstructions is a 2003 Danish documentary film directed by Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth.
 The film is conceived as a documentary, but incorporates lengthy sections of experimental films produced by the filmmakers.
 The premise is that von Trier has created a challenge for his friend and mentor, Jørgen Leth, another renowned filmmaker.
 von Trier's favorite film is Leth's "The Perfect Human" (1967), and von Trier gives Leth the task of remaking "The Perfect Human" five times, each time with a different "obstruction" (or obstacle) imposed by von Trier.
The Idiots (Danish: Idioterne ) is a 1998 Danish comedy-drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier.
 It is his first film made in compliance with the Dogme 95 Manifesto, and is also known as Dogme #2.
 It is the second film in von Trier's "Golden Heart Trilogy", preceded by "Breaking the Waves" (1996) and succeeded by "Dancer in the Dark" (2000).
 It is among the first films to be shot entirely with digital cameras.

Question: Emily Margaret Watson, OBE (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her debut film role as who, in Lars von Trier's 1996 film, Breaking the Waves,  and starring Emily Watson?
Answer: Bess McNeil