Marius Holst (born 15 January 1965) is a Norwegian
filmmaker
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screenwriter
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Amanda Award
The Amanda Award () is an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. The award originated in 1985, and has since 2005 been exclusively a film award (not telev ...
for Best Short Film, and for the
Student Academy Awards
The Student Academy Awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an annual competition for college and university filmmakers.
Description
The awards were originally named the Student Film Awards and were first pres ...
and won the BBC Drama Award Grand Prix Potier.
Career
In 1994 his first feature film '' Cross My Heart and Hope to Die'' was a box-office success in Norway, and became an international festival hit, winning the Prix de Montreal at the
Montreal World Film Festival
The Montreal World Film Festival (), commonly abbreviated MWFF in English or FFM in French, was an annual film festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1977 to 2019.45th Berlin International Film Festival.
Marius Holst is a co-founder and owner of the production company 4 ½, along with fellow director Pål Sletaune and producers Turid Øversveen and Håkon Øverås. Established in 1998, the company produces both feature films and commercials.
Sexual assault allegation
In March 2007 during a radio broadcast on
NRK P3
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, Holst and artist Morten Abel was accused by artist and painter Marianne Aulie of attempting to drug and rape her during a party in the mid 1990s. Aulie and the interviewer Mina Hadjian were later criticized for the broadcast, while Holst and Abel denied the allegation through their lawyers.
Dragonfly
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BBC
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