When informed that he’d landed in Academy history books with his Best Supporting Actor nomination for “Sentimental Value,” Stellan Skarsgård had a characteristic deadpan reaction.
“I didn’t deliberately do it,” he said with a wry smile.
The Swedish actor, a lodestar in world cinema for more than 50 years, became the first actor in an international production ever nominated in the supporting actor category. “Oh, wow, I didn’t know that, but it’s lovely,” he continued. “As far as I can remember, there was only one Scandinavian actor nominated before, and that was (two-time nominee) Max von Sydow. So it’s such a small chance that this kind of thing happens.
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