OFFICIAL FESTIVAL AWARDS
BRONZE CAMERA 300
SILVER CAMERA 300
GOLDEN CAMERA 300GOLDEN CAMERA 300 FOR LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
UNOFFICIAL AWARDS
AUDIENCE JURY AWARD FOR THE BEST FESTIVAL FILM
STUDENT JURY AWARD (FACULTY OF DRAMATIC ARTS - SKOPJE)
Sven Nykvist is awarded with Golden Camera 300 for life achivement on the
Bitola Festival as one of the greatest living Cameramen-Directors of Photography of the
international film whose 100 works shall always project with their high artistic
achievements in the anthological treasure-chest of the Seventh Art.
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Sven Nykvist is born on December 3, 1922 at the town of Moheda, Sweden, as a son of a Protestant missionary in Africa. Educated strictly, he was forbidden in youth to go to the cinema. He intended to devote himself to photography, but since 1940 he works as Assistant-Cameramen in the Italian studios in Cinecitta in Rome, and from the next year in the same post for the Swedish Producer Sandrew's. In 1945 he starts independent filming, and achieves international glory with the films of Ingmar Bergman, becoming permanent member of his team since 1960 when THE VIRGIN SPRINGS is made. Best achievements in black-and-white photography are given with the anthological films: THE SILENCE (1963), and PERSONA (1966), with a refined feeling for the limits of realistic and stylization; while in color photography he achieves the greatest artistic levels with the films: |
CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) and FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982), two works with a special
color expression and dramatic function, for which Nykvist has been awarded with the
highest world award for film-making, the Academy Award - Oscar
. In Bergman's films Nykvist pays particular attention to building the light
as well as to the strict functionality of the picture composition. Beside this, he has
also, experimented with the film tape.
Since 1970 Nykvist works for international productions also, showing
his ability to adapt to any film, i.e. to any Director, succeeding in the same time to
safeguard his own creative integrity. As his most significant collaboration with world
Directors the following films may be indicated: the French - BLACK MOON (Director: Louis
Malle, 1975) for which he has been awarded with a Cesar (the first to be awarded), than
the Americans: WE WERE ALL HIPPIES (Director: Paul Mazursky, 1980); THE POSTMAN ALWAYS
RINGS TWICE (Director: Bob Raffleson, 1981); STAR 80 (Director: Bob Fosse, 1983); AGNES OF
GOD (Director: Norman Jewison, 1985); ANOTHER WOMAN (Director Woody Allen, 198); CHAPLIN
(Director: Richard Atthenborough, 1992) as well as the last film of Andrey Tarkowsky, THE
SACRIFICE (1986) for which he receive the Cannes Festival Award. Sven Nykvist has made a
number of TV-films and in his rich filmography he appears 4 times as director of feature
films and a number of documentaries, he has written two times the texts for the films that
he directed. He has acted as producer for his film ONE AND ONE (1978, under his directing
with the actress Ingrid Tulin and actor Erland Joseffson), and he acted in the film A LOOK
AT LIV (1977). For the portrait - documentary VISIONS OF LIGHT: THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
(1992) he was interviewed on his work.
Out of many films Sven Nykvist made as Director of Photography with
Swedish Directors we select:
BARABBAS (Director A.Sjoberg, 1953); KARIN MANSDOTTER (Director: A. Sjoberg, 1954); THE
GIRL IN A TAILCOAT (Director: A. Mattisson, 1954); THE WANDERING OF A DREAMER (Director:
L.M. Lindgren, 1957); THE LADY IN BLACK (Director: A. Mattisson, 1958); THROUGH A GLASS
DARKLY (Director: I. Bergman, 1961); WINTER LIGHT, 1962); NOW ABOUT ALL THESE WOMAN
(Director: I. Bergman, 1964); LOVING COUPLES (Director: M. Zetterling, 1964; TO LOVE
(Director: J. Donner, 1964); THE DRESS (Director: V. Sjoman, 1964); SHAME (Director: I.
Bergman, 1968); HOUR OF THE WOLF (Director: I. Bergman, 1968);
A PASSION (Director: I. Bergman, 1969); THE MAGIC FLUTE (Director: I. Bergman, 1975); THE
TENANT (Director: R. Polanski, 1976); FACE TO FACE (Director: I. Bergman, 1976); THE
SERPENT'S EGG (Director: I. Bergman, 1977); AUTUMN SONATA (Director: I. Bergman, 1978);
PRETTY BABY (Director: L. Malle, 1978); STARTING OVER (Director: A.J. Pakula, 1979);
HURRICANE (Director: J. Troell, 1979); FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARRIONETTES (Director: I.
Bergman, 1980); LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN (Director: P. Brook, 1983); SWANN IN LOVE (Director:
V. Schlondorff, 1984); LOVER FROM THE DREAMS (Director: A.J. Pakula, 1986); THE UNBEARABLE
LIGHTNESS OF BEING (Director: Ph. Kaufman, 1988), etc....
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