48th Guldbagge Awards

Swedish awards ceremony

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The 48th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2012 and took place January 21, 2013, at Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury presented Guldbagge Awards (commonly referred to as Bagge) in 19 categories. The ceremony was televised in the Sweden by SVT, with actress and comedian Babben Larsson hosting the show.^[1]

Eat Sleep Die won four awards including Best Film and Best Director for Gabriela Pichler. Call Girl also won four awards, all in the technical categories. Other winners included Palme and Avalon with two awards each, and The Last Sentence, Searching for Sugar Man, Dance Music Now, Amour, Easy Money II: Hard to Kill and Isdraken with one.

The jury

Through discussions the jury appoints the winners of the Guldbagge Award among the three nominees in all price categories, except for the Honorary Award which is appointed directly by the Swedish Film Institute's board. The jury consisted this year of Jannike Åhlund (chairman), Anna Carlson, (actress and chairman of Teaterförbundet), Bengt Forslund (producer and writer), Anna Croneman (producer), Klaus Härö (director), Farnaz Arbabi (director and playwright), Matti Bye (musician and composer), Sylvia Ingemarsdotter (film editor) and Marcus Lindeen (director and playwright).^[2]

Winner and nominees

The nominees for the 48th Guldbagge Awards were announced on January 3, 2013, in Stockholm, by the Swedish Film Institute.^[1]

Films with the most nominations were Call Girl with eleven, followed by The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man with six. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 21, 2013.^[1]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film Eat Sleep Die – China Åhlander Call Girl – Mimmi Spång Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendjelloul, and Simon Chinn	Best Director Gabriela Pichler – Eat Sleep Die Mikael Marcimain – Call Girl Jan Troell – The Last Sentence
Best Actress in a leading role Nermina Lukac – Eat Sleep Die Pernilla August – Call Girl Linda Molin – Bitch Hug	Best Actor in a leading role Johannes Brost – Avalon Bengt C.W. Carlsson – Lycka till och ta hand om varandra Matias Varela – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
Best Supporting Actress Ulla Skoog – The Last Sentence Leonore Ekstrand – Avalon Yohanna Idha – Katinkas kalas	Best Supporting Actor Peter Carlberg – Avalon Milan Dragisic – Eat Sleep Die Fares Fares – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
Best Screenplay Gabriela Pichler – Eat Sleep Die Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten – Call Girl	Best Cinematography Hoyte van Hoytema – Call Girl Jan Troell and Mischa Gavrjusjov – The Last Sentence Måns Månsson – Avalon
Best Documentary Feature Searching for Sugar Man Palme Pojktanten	Best Shortfilm Dance Music Now Fotografen Gläntan
Best Foreign Film Amour (France) Laurence Anyways (Canada) Moonrise Kingdom (United States)	Best Film Editing Andreas Jonsson, Niels Pagh Andersen and Hanna Lejonqvist – Palme Kristofer Nordin – Call Girl Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man
Best Art Direction Lina Nordqvist – Call Girl Sandra Lindgren – Bitchkram Peter Bävman and Pernilla Olsson – The Last Sentence	Best Original Score Benny Andersson – Palme Malik Bendjelloul and Sixto Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man Andreas Unge and Johan Söderqvist – El Medico - The Cubaton story
Makeup and Hair Jenny Fred – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill Eros Codinas – Call Girl Maria Strid Zackrisson – The Last Sentence	Best Sound Editing Petter Fladeby and Per Nyström – Call Girl Jonas Jansson – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill Malik Bendjelloul and Per Nyström – Searching for Sugar Man
Best Costume Design Cilla Rörby – Call Girl Katja Watkins – The Last Sentence Jaana Fomin – Mammas pojkar	Best Visual Effects Andreas Hylander – Isdraken Tim Morris – Call Girl Torbjörn Olsson – Hamilton - I nationens intresse
Gullspiran Ella Lemhagen, director	Cinema Audience Award The Anderssons in Greece Hamilton - I nationens intresse Once Upon a Time in Phuket
Honorary Award Hans Alfredson, filmmaker and actor

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received one or multiple nominations:^[1]^[3]

Eleven: Call Girl
Six: The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man
Five: Eat Sleep Die
Four: Avalon and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
Three: Palme
Two: Bitchkram and Hamilton – I nationens intresse
One: Katinkas kalas, Lycka till och ta hand om varandra, Mammas pojkar, Pojktanten, El Médico – the Cubaton Story, Isdraken, Once Upon a Time in Phuket and Sune i Grekland - All inclusive

The following four films received multiple awards:

Four: Call Girl and Eat Sleep Die
Two: Palme and Avalon

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Nomineringarna till Guldbaggen" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan.se. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
^ "Vinnarjuryn" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
^ "Supersuccéerna slåss om Biopublikens pris" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan.se. Retrieved January 19, 2013.