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===1990sβ2000s=== Sydow and Bergman did not work together for an extended period. A part in Bergman's ''[[Fanny and Alexander]]'' (1982) was specifically written for Sydow, but his agent demanded too large a salary. Sydow came to regret missing out on the role.<ref name=FTObit/> The two did eventually reunite in 1991 with ''[[The Best Intentions]]'', directed by Bille August with a script from Bergman.<ref name=GuardianObit/> In 1996, Sydow made his final appearance in a Bergman film, ''[[Private Confessions]]'', directed by [[Liv Ullmann]] and written by Bergman.<ref name=LATimesObit/> In 1997, Sydow played Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist and Nazi sympathizer [[Knut Hamsun]] in the biopic ''[[Hamsun (film)|Hamsun]]''.<ref name=NYTObit/> Throughout the rest of the 1990s, Sydow also appeared in films such as ''[[Father (1990 film)|Father]]'' (1990), ''[[Awakenings]]'' (1990), ''[[Until the End of the World]]'' (1991), ''[[Needful Things (film)|Needful Things]]'' (1993), ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]'' (1995) and ''[[Snow Falling on Cedars (film)|Snow Falling on Cedars]]'' (1999).<ref name=TelegraphObit/><ref name=THRObit/><ref name=BFI10/> For his performance in ''Father'', Sydow won the [[AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Australian Film Institute Best Actor Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/past-awards/range/1990-1999/year/1990/ |title=AFI Past Awards 1990 |publisher=[[Australian Film Institute]] |access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref> In 2002, Sydow acted in one of his biggest commercial successes, playing the [[PreCrime]] director opposite [[Tom Cruise]] in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s science fiction [[Thriller film|thriller]] ''[[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]]''.<ref name=TelegraphObit/><ref name=THRObit/> In 2004, Sydow appeared in a television adaptation of the ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Ring of the Nibelung]]'' saga. The show set ratings records and was later released in the United States as ''[[Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King]]''.<ref name=TelegraphObit/> In 2007, he starred in the box-office hit ''[[Rush Hour 3]]'' as one of the antagonists opposite [[Jackie Chan]] and [[Chris Tucker]], and played the father of the protagonist in ''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]'', [[Julian Schnabel]]'s adaptation of the memoir by [[Jean-Dominique Bauby]]. In 2009, Sydow appeared in the drama series ''[[The Tudors]]''.<ref name=TelegraphObit/>
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