The populist Liberals took third place, tripling their vote to 13%, partly thanks to a controversial suggestion that immigrants should pass a Swedish-language test.
Despite his lasting association with the director, Mr. von Sydow's one previous Oscar nomination was not for a role in a Bergman picture but rather for another Swedish-language part, that of Lassefar in Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987), which won an Academy Award for best foreign film as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.