Ólafur Egilsson

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Film, TV & Theatre

Film, TV & Theatre

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2021

X-Filme/Handwritten Pictures

Based on the infamous case of the Isdal Woman

Film

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WOMAN AT WAR

2018

Slot Machine / Picturehouse

Written with Benedikt Erlingsson. WOMAN AT WAR received its world premiere during the 57th Cannes Critics' Week in 2018. Ólafur and Benedikt were awarded the Cannes Critics’ Week SACD Prize for Best Screenplay and and accepting the NDR Film Prize, the Baltic Film Prize for a Nordic fiction film, the Interfilm Church Prize, the audience award at Lübeck Nordic Film Days 2018, and the LUX Film Prize awarded by the European Parliament. The film received the prestigious Nordic Council Film Prize in 2018 and is Iceland's nomination in the Foreign Language Category at Oscars 2019. WOMAN AT WAR was picked as one of Variety's mid-year 15 Best Films of 2019

THE OATH

2016

Working Title/Film4/RVK Studios

Written with Baltasar Kormákur. TIFF 2016: Official Selection; San Sebastián International Film Festival 2016: Nominated for the Golden Seashell Award

THE GRANDAD

2014

Thorsson Productions

With Bjarni Haukur Thorsson

SURF

2010

Zik Zak Kvikmyndir

Co-written with Ottó Geir Borg & Árni Ásgeirsson. EDDA Awards 2011: winner of 6 awards, including Best Film. Nominated for the Nordic Council's Film Prize 2011

SUMMERLAND

2009

Blueeyes Productions

Co-written by Grímur Hákonarson. Austin Fantastic Fest 2011: winner of the Best Screenplay Award

WHITE NIGHT WEDDING

2007

Blueeyes Productions

Co-written by Baltasar Kormákur. EDDA Awards 2008: winner of 7 awards, including Best Film. Nominated for the Nordic Council's Film Prize 2008

Television

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TRAPPED

2014

RVK Studios

10 x 60' TV series set in a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. EDDA Awards 2016: winner of 3 awards, including Best Television Drama/Comedy of the Year

Short Films

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THE VALLEY

2016

Heygum productions

A guilt-ridden taxi driver takes a desperate passenger to her destination. On the journey their fates collide and they both realise that they have to make a final sacrifice in order to be redeemed

Theatre

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INDEPENDENT PEOPLE

2014

National Theatre of Iceland

Co-written with Simon Birgisson and Atli Rafn Sigurðarson. Theatre adaptation of Halldór Laxness's novel

KARITAS

2014

National Theatre of Iceland

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir

ANSWER TO HELGA'S LETTER

2012

City Theatre of Reykjavik

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Bergsveinn Birgisson

IRIS

2012

National Youth Theatre

Starred Brynhildur Guðjónsdóttir

PEOPLE IN THE BASEMENT

2011

City Theatre of Reykjavik

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Auður Jónsdóttir. Winner of the Icelandic Playwright of The Year Award 2011

GERPLA

2011

National Theatre of Iceland

Theatre adaptation of a novel by Halldór Laxness