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Sentimental Value

Feature film (2025)

Film & TV Norway Hall No. 45

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Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value is a family drama about a stage director and the two daughters he estranged himself from, built around a question no trophy can answer: who gets to tell a story that is not your own. Renate Reinsve plays Nora, the actress who comes home; Stellan Skarsgård plays Gustav, the father whose career has collapsed. On 15 March 2026 it became the first Norwegian film ever to win Best International Feature, after six previous Norwegian nominations since 1957, and Norway's first Oscar for a fiction feature. The picture arrived with nine nominations, went home with one, and Trier used his speech to speak for the international community of filmmakers.

Director: Joachim Trier
Release: 2025
Country: Norway
Oscars: 1 win from 9 nominations
Other honours: Cannes Grand Prix 2025, BAFTA Best Film Not in English
Signature: Long takes; unsentimental family rupture

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Honor record

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

2026 · Mar 15, 2026

Dolby Theatre, Hollywood

The first Norwegian film to win the category, after six previous Norwegian nominations, and the country's first Oscar for a fiction feature. It was chosen over The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident and The Voice of Hind Rajab. Trier, accepting from Javier Bardem, closed with a paraphrase of James Baldwin: all adults are responsible for all children.

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