Nils Gaup

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Nils Gaup
Festival de Cine de Sitges
Special Mention
1988 Pathfinder

British Film Institute
Sutherland Trophy
1989 Pathfinder

Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize
1990 Pathfinder

Nils Gaup (born 12 April 1955) is a

Sámi film director from Norway
.

Career

Mikkel Gaup and Nils Gaup at the 1988 Oscar ceremony

Gaup was born in

Sami language
theatre ensemble.

After acting in several movies, he rose to international prominence in 1987 with his film Ofelaš (international English title

Tashunga (also known as North Star), a project by Christopher Lambert
. This film was panned by both the box office and the critics.

Gaup was previously scheduled as director for the Kevin Costner movie Waterworld. But due to exploding costs, he left the project.

He directed the 2008 film

Kautokeino-opprøret about the Kautokeino rebellion
of 1852 of the town of the same name in Norway. It is the true story of the riots of the Sami people against the church and state domination on alcohol sale.

Awards

Gaup has won numerous awards for the movie

1988 Festival de Cine de Sitges, a Sutherland Trophy from the British Film Institute the following year, and the Grand Prize award at the 1990 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2009, he was awarded the Skábmagovat Prize, an indigenous film award to honor the significant, long-term contributions he has made to the Sámi culture and communities.[1] In 2022, he won the Anders Jahres Humanitarian Foundation's Culture Prize together with Margreth Olin, Joachim Trier, and Deeyah Khan.[2]

Filmography

Director

Actor

Awards and nominations

  • Amanda Award Winner – Pathfinder
  • Academy Award Nomination Best Foreign language film – Pathfinder
  • Amanda Award Winner – Head above Water

Personal life

Nils Gaup is the uncle of actor Mikkel Gaup.[3][4] He is currently married to Linn-Kristin Henriksen, the sister of actor Stig Frode Henriksen known from the Kill Buljo movie.

References

  1. ^ "Skábmagovat-palkinto Liisa Holmbergille" (PDF). Skábmagovat (in Finnish). 30 January 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Anders Jahres Kulturpris til Nils Gaup, Margreth Olin, Joachim Trier og Deeyah Khan". Anders Jahre's Humanitarian Foundation (in Norwegian Bokmål). 30 January 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Joiker i Melodi Grand Prix på samenes nasjonaldag". www.aftenbladet.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 4 February 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  4. ^ Aslaksen, Eilif Andreas (14 August 2008). "Nils Gaup: – Frarøvet framtiden". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 10 August 2021.

External links

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