Biography
Valdís Óskarsdóttir is an Icelandic film editor and director. Born on 6 May 1949 in Akureyri, she graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1991, specialising in editing.
She edited The Celebration (1998), for which she won a Robert Award for Best Editing, and later worked on films including Finding Forrester (2000), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — for which she received a BAFTA Award for Best Editing — Mongol (2007) and Flag Day (2021). She has also won a second Robert Award and an Edda Award.
Her directorial debut, Sveitabrúðkaup (Country Wedding, 2008), premiered in Iceland.
