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Fanny and Alexander
1982
· Movie
· 188 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #40
- IMDb #265
- Rotten Tomatoes #24
- Metacritic #33
- Letterboxd #53
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #26
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #177
- Metacritic Audience #341
- Criticker #11
- Kinopoisk #416
- AlloCiné #163
- Trakt #925
Every rating
77–100
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Trakt on 77, highest is Metacritic critics on 100. Critics average 100, everyone else 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The story of two young siblings from a wealthy theatrical family in turn-of-the-century Sweden. After their father dies, their mother marries a stern, cruel bishop. The children are uprooted from their bohemian, loving home and forced into the austere and oppressive household of their stepfather, where magic and imagination become their only escape.
Details
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Studio
- Cinematograph AB, Svenska Filminstitutet, SVT, Gaumont
- Released
- 17 December 1982
- Country
- Sweden, Germany, France
- Language
- Swedish, German, Yiddish, English, French
- Runtime
- 188 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.0M
- Box office
- $6.8M
- Awards
- 19 wins, 6 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 25 →7 major awards won · 19 wins from 25 nominations across 10 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1984 | Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1984 | Best Art Direction | Anna Asp | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1984 | Best Cinematography | Sven Nykvist | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1984 | Best Costume Design | Marik Vos-Lundh | Winner |
| BAFTA Awards 1984 | Best Cinematography | Sven Nykvist | Winner |
| César Awards 1984 | Best Foreign Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Golden Globes 1984 | Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1984 | Best Original Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Academy Awards
6 nominations, 4 won
| Best Art Direction | Anna Asp | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Sven Nykvist | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Marik Vos-Lundh | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Director | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
BAFTA Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Cinematography | Sven Nykvist | Winner |
| Best Costume Design | Marik Vos-Lundh | Nominee |
| Film Not in the English Language | Jörn Donner, Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
Golden Globes
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Director - Motion Picture | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
César Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
Directors Guild of America
1 nomination
| Best Director | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
David di Donatello Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Foreign Director | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Foreign Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Foreign Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
Guldbagge Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor | Jarl Kulle | Winner |
| Best Director | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Cinematography | Sven Nykvist | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
National Board of Review
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Top Five Foreign Films | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Ingmar Bergman | Winner |