Óskar Þór Axelsson (born )
is an Icelandic
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
.
He is best known for the 2012 crime film ''
Black's Game
''Black's Game'' ( is, Svartur á leik) is an Icelandic crime film from 2012, directed and written by Óskar Þór Axelsson. It is based on the novel of the same name by about the drug trade in ReykjavÃk in the mid-1990s.
In the 2013 Edda Aw ...
'' and the 2017 mystery-horror ''
I Remember You I Remember You may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' I Remember You...'', a 1980 album by Karin Krog, Warne Marsh and Red Mitchell
* ''I Remember You'' (Brian McKnight album), 1995
* ''I Remember You'' (Jo Stafford album), 2002
* ''I Remember You ...
''.
Early life and education
Óskar was born and raised in
ReykjavÃk, Iceland.
Hecompleted his
Bachelor of Arts degree in general literature at the
University of Iceland in 1997 and then spent one year in the
ERASMUS exchange program at the
University College London. He graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking from
New York University in 2006.
Career
Óskar's first full-length film was ''
Black's Game
''Black's Game'' ( is, Svartur á leik) is an Icelandic crime film from 2012, directed and written by Óskar Þór Axelsson. It is based on the novel of the same name by about the drug trade in ReykjavÃk in the mid-1990s.
In the 2013 Edda Aw ...
'' (2012), based on the novel of the same name by . In the 2013
Edda Awards, Óskar won Screenplay of the Year (''Handrit ársins'') for the film, and it became the second highest grossing Icelandic film of all time.
A prequel to ''Black's Game'' is due to be released in 2024, and a sequel in 2025.
Óskar's second film was ''
I Remember You I Remember You may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' I Remember You...'', a 1980 album by Karin Krog, Warne Marsh and Red Mitchell
* ''I Remember You'' (Brian McKnight album), 1995
* ''I Remember You'' (Jo Stafford album), 2002
* ''I Remember You ...
'' (2017), based on a novel of the same name by
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Vilborg Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (born in 1963) is an Icelandic people, Icelandic writer of both Crime fiction, crime novels and Children's literature, children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998. Her début crime novel was translated into ...
. It was the most watched and the highest grossing film in Iceland in 2017.
Óskar has also directed the TV series ''
Stella Blómkvist'', and five episodes of the TV series ''
Trapped''.
Filmography
* ''Nylon'' (2004) (Short)
* ''Traveler'' (2005) (Short)
* ''Misty Mountain'' (2006) (Short)
* ''
Black's Game
''Black's Game'' ( is, Svartur á leik) is an Icelandic crime film from 2012, directed and written by Óskar Þór Axelsson. It is based on the novel of the same name by about the drug trade in ReykjavÃk in the mid-1990s.
In the 2013 Edda Aw ...
'' (''Svartur á leik'') (2012)
* ''
I Remember You I Remember You may refer to:
Music Albums
* '' I Remember You...'', a 1980 album by Karin Krog, Warne Marsh and Red Mitchell
* ''I Remember You'' (Brian McKnight album), 1995
* ''I Remember You'' (Jo Stafford album), 2002
* ''I Remember You ...
'' (''Ég man þig'') (2017)
* ''
Operation Napoleon''
References
External links
*
Óskar Þór Axelssonat the Icelandic Film Centre
*
Óskar Þór Axelssonat the Kvikmyndir.is
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1973 births
Óskar Þór Axelsson
Óskar Þór Axelsson
Living people