Lasse Hallström

Lars Sven Lasse Hallström is a Swedish film director He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog Mitt liv som hund 1985 and later for The Cider House Rules 1999 Hallström learned his craft making music videos in particular for the group ABBA Since the international success of My Life as a Dog 1985 for which he was nominated for Academy Awards for writing and directing Hallström has worked in American movies His first notable American success was Whats Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 He reached his greatest level of prominence when he was nominated for an Academy Award for best director for the critically acclaimed movie The Cider House Rules 1999 and then later directed the wellreceived film Chocolat 2000 both of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture His 2012 film The Hypnotist was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist Description above from the Wikipedia article Lasse Hallström   licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia