Norwegian actress, director and screenwriter Liv Ullmann is to obtain the European Movie Academy’s lifetime achievement award at this yr’s European Movie Awards, which happen on January 17, 2026 in Berlin.
Born in Tokyo, Ullmann grew up in Canada earlier than shifting to Norway together with her mom and sister. She joined the Norwegian Nationwide Theatre in Oslo, assembly Swedish director Ingmar Bergman within the mid-Sixties.
She starred in Bergman’s Persona (1966), Disgrace (1968) and Cries & Whispers (1972). In Bergman’s Scenes From A Marriage (1974), she performs the spouse, Marianne, for which she was nominated for a Bafta and received a David di Donatello award for finest international actress.
She was nominated for an Oscar and a Bafta for her position as psychiatrist Jenny Isaksson in Face To Face (1976), whereas 1978’s Autumn Sonata noticed her win one other Italian David di Donatello.
Ullmann additionally labored with Jan Troell in The New Land (1972) and The Emigrants (1971), for which she was nominated for an Oscar, and with Mauro Bolognini in Farewell Moscow (1987), which received her one other David di Donatello.
Her first movie as a director was Sofie (1992) in regards to the lifetime of a Jewish lady in Copenhagen from 1886 to 1907, adopted by Kristin Lavransdatter (1995), set in 14th-century Norway, and Personal Confessions (1996). The latter was written by Ingmar Bergman, depicted a flawed marriage and starred Pernilla August and Max von Sydow.
Her movie Faithless (2000), starring Lena Endre and Erland Josephson, premiered in Competitors at Cannes and was later nominated for a Spanish Goya award. Miss Julie (2014) starred Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain.
In a press release, the European Movie Academy mentioned that “Ullmann has helped to form our understanding of European movie.”
Ullman received an honorary Oscar in 2022, and likewise has honorary Norwegian Amanda and Swedish Guldbagge awards, in addition to honorary awards from festivals together with Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Karlovy Fluctuate and San Sebastian. She received the European Movie Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema Award in 2004.
Ullmann is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, co-founder and honorary chair of the Ladies’s Refugee Fee.
