Stellan Skarsgård Makes His Oscars Red Carpet Debut as a First-Time Nominee

Rachel KingSun, March 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM UTC

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Stellan Skarsgård Attends His First OscarsEmma McIntyre - Getty Images

If you had to guess how many Oscar nominations Stellan Skarsgård had before this year, you might have assumed at least a few. The living legend has appeared in countless memorable roles in his more than five decades as an actor, with credits in Melancholia, Mamma Mia!, and Dune. (That’s not even counting his TV work, with smashing performances in Chernobyl and Andor.) And yet, the Swedish actor (and patriarch of an acting family) only received his first ever Academy Award nomination this year for Best Supporting Actor in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. Skarsgård made his Oscars red carpet debut on Sunday, wearing a timepiece from Swiss luxury watch maker Omega.

Stellan Skarsgård with his wife, Megan Everett-Skarsgård, at the 2026 Oscars.Mike Coppola - Getty Images

“You are allowed to say it’s one of the best roles of my career—if not the best,” Skarsgård told Variety in February. “It’s not only the role as written on the page. It became what it became through Joachim’s way of letting me do my job as fully as possible. He’s watching everything, keeping it, editing it, making it better. It’s fantastic. I’m very lucky to have done this role.”

Sentimental Value follows two sisters, Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) as they meet with their estranged father Gustav (Skarsgård), a once-renowned director. Gustav offers Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. She turns it down, but soon discovers he's given the part to an eager young Hollywood star, played by Elle Fanning. The two siblings must now navigate a complicated relationship with their father while also dealing with an American actress, who Nora believes Gustav is treating with more empathy than his own daughters.

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“He's from a different generation, he's a different kind of father than I am…I didn't think I had anything to do with the role at all. So I did the entire film as if it was a stranger I was doing,” Skarsgård told NPR. “But then my second son, Gustav, said to me, after having seen the film… ‘Do you recognize yourself?’ And I went, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Look again.’ Even if I was at home, basically eight months of 12—I only worked four months a year since 1989—if I were at home eight months a year, I wasn't home enough for him. So I started to think about it. What became clear to me is, I have eight children…Some children need me a lot, and some don't need me at all. So you can't get it right as a parent.”

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