NFTS Alumni Joachim Trier Wins Oscar for Sentimental Value
The 98th annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday 16 March in Los Angeles, honouring the best films and talent of 2025. The National Film and Television School is thrilled to see graduate Joachim Trier awarded the Oscar for International Feature Film for Sentimental Value.
As at the BAFTAs, Joachim was joined on stage by many of the cast and crew including fellow graduate and Editor Olivier Bugge Coutté. The win marks Joachim’s second Academy Award, following Best Original Screenplay for The Worst Person in the World in 2022. This incredible achievement adds to the accolades Sentimental Value has already earned, including nine Oscar nominations, five BAFTA nominations, with a win for Best Film Not in the English Language and the BIFA award for Best International Independent Film. Joachim also took home the Grand Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Additional congratulations go to Jo Vale, first assistant sound on F1: The Movie, awarded the Oscar for Best Sound, Antonio Vieira, animator on Kpop Demon Hunters which won Animated Feature Film and Senior Art Director Celestria Kimmins, Junior Draughtsperson Hugo Dell and Senior Model Maker Beth Slater from the Frankenstein design team, awarded the Academy Award for Production Design.
Congratulations to Joachim and all our alumni who’s talent shone at this year’s Oscars ceremony, we couldn’t be prouder of their outstanding achievements.
See the full list of winners: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2026