Norwegian actress and filmmaker Liv Ullmann will be presented with the European Lifetime Achievement award at the 38th European Film Awards for “her outstanding body of work as an actress, director and screenwriter.”
She has worked with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, and alongside Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson and Max von Sydow, bringing international fame and recognition.
Her acting roles include playing the mute actress Elisabet Vogler in Persona (1966), former violinist Eva Rosenberg in Shame (1968) which won her a Swedish Guldbagge Award, and Maria who is visiting her dying sister in Cries and Whispers (1972 which won a special Italian David di Donatello Award.
In Scenes From a Marriage (1974) she plays the wife, Marianne, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and won a David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress. For her role as psychiatrist Jenny Isaksson in Face to Face (1976) she was nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA.
In Autumn Sonata (1978) she is a devoted wife, mother, and caretaker who, after seven years of separation, invites her mother, a world-famous pianist, for a visit. Her performance won her another Italian David di Donatello as Best Foreign Actress.
Liv Ullmann also worked with Jan Troell in The New Land (1972) and The Emigrants (1971), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and was nominated for an Oscar, and with Mauro Bolognini in Farewell Moscow (1987) which won her yet another David di Donatello.
Liv Ullmann’s first film as a director was Sofie (1992) about the life of a Jewish woman in Copenhagen from 1886 to 1907 with Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson and Ghita Nørby, followed by an adaptation of Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset’s great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter (1995), set in fourteenth-century Norway, and Private Confessions (1996). The latter was written by Ingmar Bergman, depicted a flawed marriage and starred Pernilla August and Max von Sydow.
Her film Faithless (2000), starring Lena Endre and Erland Josephson, premiered in competition in Cannes and was later nominated for a Spanish Goya Award. Miss Julie (2014), with Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain, follows an unsettled daughter through a midsummer night in 1890, as she encourages her father’s valet to seduce her.
Liv Ullmann has won “virtually every award there is” among these the honorary Norwegian Amanda and Swedish Guldbagge Awards, honorary awards at the festivals in Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Karlovy Vary and San Sebastian, the European Film Academy’s European Achievement in World Cinema Award and an Honorary Oscar.
Liv Ullmann is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, co-founder and honorary chair of the Women’s Refugee Commission.
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