The Norwegian Oscar winner "Sentimental value" takes home the Nordic Council's film prize

It was a big slam for Norway when the Nordic Council announced the winners in the five different price categories on Tuesday. In addition to the film prize, the fjord nation also took home the music prize, the literature prize, the children's and youth literature prize and the environmental prize.

Most expected was that Joachim Trier's Oscar winner would take home the film prize in competition with the five other Nordic entries, including Swedish Maria Eriksson-Hecht's acclaimed feature film debut "Kevlarsjäl".

It is the second time that director Joachim Trier and his co-writer Eskil Vogt have been awarded the Nordic Council's film prize. Ten years ago, the radar couple won a Nordlys statuette for the English-language family drama "Louder than bombs" with Isabelle Huppert and Gabriel Byrne.

Ever since its world premiere in Cannes 2025, "Sentimental value" has gone ahead like a combine at the awards and has become the highest-grossing Norwegian film of all time on the global cinema market. In addition to the jury's grand prize in Cannes, the film has, among other things, won an Oscar for best international film and has also been nominated in eight other categories, including all acting classes; Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.

This year's film prize jury describes "Sentimental value" as "an instant classic in Nordic cinema". In the justification, the film is also called "a rich, mature and complex film about big themes, such as family, history, the importance of home and the possibilities of art". The jury further writes that Trier and Vogt have created their "most mature work and developed a cinematic language that makes it possible to tell a story that is experienced as both personal and universal."

The prize sum of 300,000 Danish kroner is divided equally between the film's director Joachim Trier, the screenwriters Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt and the producers Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar to emphasize that film as an art form is created through collaboration.