Denmark has submitted Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land as its candidate for Best International Feature Film on the 96th Academy Awards.
The epic historic drama, which world premiered at Venice after which headed to Toronto, stars Mads Mikkelsen because the real-life Ludvig von Kahlen, a former soldier who tries to make his fortune by taming the then wild and lawless heath of the Danish Jutland peninsula, so it may very well be turned over to cultivation following a declaration by King Frederik V.
The movie was chosen from a brief checklist which additionally included Anders Walter’s Before It Ends and Lea Glob’s documentary Apolonia, Apolonia.
Denmark have received an Oscar within the International Feature Film class 4 instances for Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round in 2021, Susanne Bier’s In a Better World in 2011, Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror in 1989, and Gabriel Axel’s Babette’s Feast in 1988.
There had been latest nominations for Simon Lereng Wilmont’s documentary A House Made of Splinters within the Best Documentary Film class in 2023, and for Anders Walter and Pipaluk Okay. Jørgensen’s brief Ivalu in Live Action Short class
This 12 months’s Danish Oscar Selection committee consisted of cinema professionals from completely different movie associations and guilds.
They comprised editor Henrik Thiesen, exhibitor Sune Lind Thomsen, screenwriter Ina Bruhn, movie journalist Jacob Ludvigsen, director Lisa Jespersen, cinematographer Louise Mclaughlin, Danish Film Institute execs Jacob Neiiendam and Lena Juhl Seidelin in addition to Pernille Bech Christensen of the Danish Producers Association.
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