
With nine Academy Award nominations, the Swedish son of a priest Ingmar Bergman is both among most successful European filmmakers and among the most renowned directors never to take home one of the prestigious golden trophies. Three of his movies won Oscars as Best Foreign Films, The Virgin Spring, Through A Glass Darkly, and the epic Fanny & Alexander, but Bergman himself always went home empty-handed. He received his first nod for the original screenplay for Wild Strawberries, and the 1957 drama still stands out as one of his finest ever among the many works in the director’s long career.
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