Baltasar Kormákur Biography

Baltasar Kormákur is an actor producer and director whose work spans theater movies and television. Born in Reykjavik Iceland he graduated as an actor from Iceland’s National Academy of Fine Arts in 1990. He was immediately signed on by the National Theatre of Iceland where he worked as one of the leading young performing artists until 1997. During the last two years of his assignment he also directed several ambitious works after having produced and directed highly popular independent stage productions alongside his projects with the National Theatre.
In 2000 he wrote directed acted in and produced the feature film “101 Reykjavik” which became an international hit and earned the Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Subsequently Variety selected him as one of the “10 Directors to Watch” along with Alejandro González Iñárritu Lukas Moodysson Christopher Nolan and other newcomers at the time. Soon after Kormákur started his own production company Sögn ehf and since then has maintained his focus on feature film writing producing and directing. His films “101 Reykjavik” “The Sea” “A Little Trip To Heaven” “Jar City” and “White Night Wedding” have all been very successful in Iceland and won numerous international awards. Kormákur’s “The Deep” which eerily captures the tragic real-life story of the lone survivor of a capsized fishing boat off the frigid Icelandic coast premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to become Iceland’s Oscar nominee and was shortlisted (one of 9 films) for the foreign language Academy Award. It opened in Iceland on September 21 2012 and took in over 50% of the country’s box office receipts that weekend and earned a record number of Edda Awards 11 in all including Best Film of the Year Best Director and Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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