Accepting the Oscar for Best International Feature for “Another Round”, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg delivered an emotional speech dedicated to his late daughter, Ida. “This is a film about letting control of life as I lost control of my own,” Vinterberg says.
Four days into the production on the Danish-language “Another Round”, Vinterberg’s daughter, Ida, and his ex-wife Maria were in a car accident.
The other driver was distracted by a cell phone. Maria suffered injuries, but Ida died instantly. She was 19. Encouraged by his cast including longtime friends and collaborators, Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Bo Larsen, Vinterberg ploughed on through his grief to direct the film after taking a hiatus from production.
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