A high-octane performance for Børning as it snags four Amandas
- Hallvard Bræin’s feature debut was the big winner at the awards ceremony in Haugesund, ahead of the Norwegian International Film Festival
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Norwegian director Hallvard Bræin’s first feature, Børning [+see also:
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Børning – which was screened at last year’s festival – was the most popular local film in 2014, taking 381,648 admissions, to become number two in the charts. It received both the jury’s award for Best Norwegian Feature and the People’s Amanda – voted for by audiences – adding Best Supporting Actor (for Henrik Mestad) and Best Sound Design (Fredric Vogel, Petter Fladeby).
Linn-Jeanethe Kyed and Christopher Grøndahl’s Norwegian twist of Cannonball Run (1981) – the longest, wildest and funniest car race, from Oslo to North Cape, with only one rule: get there first – was produced by John M Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo and Marcus Brodersen, for Filmkameratene.
The production team also took home the prize for Best Norwegian Children’s Film: Grethe Bøe-Waal’s Operation Arctic [+see also:
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interview: Gunnar Vikene
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Full list of Amanda winners 2015:
Best Norwegian Feature: Hallvard Bræin’s Børning [+see also:
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Best Actress: Ine Marie Wilmann, for Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick
Best Actor: Bjørn Sundquist, for Gunnar Vikene’s Here Is Harold
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Krigsvoll, for Yngvild Sve Flikke’s Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actor: Henrik Mestad, for Børning
Best Director: Aslaug Holm, for Brothers
Best Norwegian Children’s Film: Grethe Bøe-Waal’s Operation Arctic
Best Documentary: Drone [+see also:
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Best Short: Bunker. Dir/Prod: Vibeke Heide
Best Original Screenplay: Bent Hamer, for his 1001 Grams [+see also:
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Best Visual Effects: Storm Studio (Morten Moen, Tine Teigene Dalen), for Lisa Marie Gamlem and John Andreas Andersen’s Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
Best Editing: Christoffer Heie and Ida Kolstø, for Leiv Igor Devold’s The Accidental Rock Star
Best Musical Score: Nicholas Sillitoe, for Bobbie Peers’ The Disappearing Illusionist [+see also:
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Best Sound Design: Fredric Vogel, Petter Fladeby, for Børning
Best Cinematography: Simon Pramsten, for Here Is Harold
Best Production Design: Peter De Neergaard, for Peter Flinth’s Beatles [+see also:
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Best Foreign Feature: Leviathan [+see also:
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The Amanda Honorary Award: director Vibeke Løkkeberg
The Amanda Golden Clapper: producer and dubbing director Harald Mæle
The People’s Amanda: Børning
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