Joachim Trier’s award-winning cinema success The Worst Person in the World has received Oscar nominations in the categories Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay (Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt). Produced by Thomas Robsahm and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar for Oslo Pictures in co-production with Film i Väst. The world premiere was in Cannes 2021, where it was nominated for a Palme d’Or and Renate Reinsve won a Golden Palm.
The screenplay is written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier. Joachim Trier’s third film in the Oslo trilogy after Reprise and Oslo August 31 is a melancholic comedy about love in our time. In the main roles we find Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie and Herbert Nordrum.
February 4, The Worst Person in the World opened in US cinemas, with screenings in New York City and Los Angeles. The film had the highest PSA for any film of 2022, and the third-highest for any film of 2021 after Licorice Pizza and Spider-Man: No Way Home. The film made $135,042 at four NY/LA theatres with a per-screen average of $33,768, making it the best opening for a Norwegian film ever in the US.
Nearly 220,000 French people have already seen the The Worst Person in the World in cinemas, and it has been nominated for the French national film award César in the category for best foreign film. The Awards ceremony is set to take place on February 25. It has also been nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Non-English Film. In addition, Renate Reinsve is nominated in the category for best actress. The British Film Awards will be presented on March 13 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The Norwegian premiere was on 15 October 2021, and it has so far been seen by more than 230,000 people in Norway. The Norwegian distributor is SF Studios. The international sales agent is the French company MK2 and the American distributor is Neon.
