Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman, one of the key figures in modern cinema, has died at the age of 89.His 60-year career spanned intense classics like Cries & Whispers, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries.He was personally nominated for nine Oscars between 1960 and 1984, while three of his productions won Oscars for best foreign film.Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden. No details about the cause of death have been released.Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said: "It's an unbelievable loss for Sweden, but even more so internationally."Nick James, editor of cinema magazine Sight & Sound, paid tribute to Bergman as "one of the great masters and one of the great humanists of cinema". Bergman won his first Oscar for best foreign film in 1961"There are very few people of that kind of stature today," he said. "He proved that cinema could be an artform."
