Grímur Hákonarson

{{short description|Icelandic film director and screenwriter}}

{{icelandic name|Grímur}}

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Grímur Hákonarson (born 1977) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. His first feature film was Summerland from 2010, for which Grímur was nominated for the Edda Award for Best Screenplay.{{Cite web|url=http://eddan.is/?page_id=650|title=Edduverðlaunin 2011|language=Icelandic|work=Eddan.is|publisher=Icelandic Film and Television Academy|accessdate=15 May 2015|archive-date=18 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718192432/http://eddan.is/?page_id=650|url-status=dead}} His next feature film was Rams, about two estranged brothers on the Icelandic countryside who come together to save their sheep. The film was selected for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival{{Cite web|url=http://www.icelandicfilms.info/films/nr/1556|title=Rams|work=icelandicfilms.info|publisher=Icelandic Film Centre|accessdate=15 May 2015}} and won the Un Certain Regard Award.