49th Guldbagge Awards

49th Guldbagge Awards
Date	January 20, 2014
Site	Cirkus, Stockholm
Hosted by	Sissela Kyle
Highlights
Best Picture	The Reunion
Most awards	Waltz for Monica (4)
Most nominations	Waltz for Monica (11)
Television coverage
Network	SVT
Duration	2 hours

The 49th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2013 and took place January 20, 2014, 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 Sissela Kyle hosting the show for the third time. The ceremony also celebrated the prize's 50th anniversary.^[1]

Waltz for Monica won four awards including Best Actress for Edda Magnason and Best Director for Per Fly. The Reunion won two awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay. Other winners included We Are the Best! with two awards, and Nobody Owns Me, Hotell, The Tenderness, Belleville Baby, On Suffocation, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Sanctuary, Faro and Shed No Tears 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 The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film), Bengt Forslund (producer and writer), Jan Holmberg (ceo, Ingmar Bergman Foundation), Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin (consultant of Film Stockholm/Filmbasen and producer), Kathrine Windfeld (director), Farnaz Arbabi (director and playwrighter), Sylvia Ingemarsdotter (film editor) and Marcus Lindeen (director and playwrighter).^[2]

Winner and nominees

The nominees for the 49th Guldbagge Awards were announced on January 3, 2014 in Stockholm, by the Swedish Film Institute.^[3]

Films with the most nominations were Waltz for Monica with eleven, followed by Shed No Tears with nine. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 20, 2014.

Awards

Mikael Persbrandt, Best Actor winner

Edda Magnason, Best Actress winner

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Film The Reunion Shed No Tears Waltz for Monica	Best Director Per Fly – Waltz for Monica Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein – Shed No Tears Anna Odell – The Reunion
Best Actress in a leading role Edda Magnason – Waltz for Monica Anna Odell – The Reunion Gunilla Röör – En gång om året	Best Actor in a leading role Mikael Persbrandt – Nobody Owns Me Robert Gustafsson – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Matias Varela – Easy Money III: Life Deluxe
Best Supporting Actress Anna Bjelkerud – Hotell Mira Eklund – Hotell Josefin Neldén – Shed No Tears	Best Supporting Actor Sverrir Gudnason – Waltz for Monica Kjell Bergqvist – Waltz for Monica David Dencik – Hotell
Best Screenplay Anna Odell – The Reunion Cilla Jackert – Shed No Tears Lisa Langseth – Hotell	Best Cinematography Petrus Sjövik – The Tenderness Eric Kress – Waltz for Monica Erik Sohlström – Shed No Tears
Best Documentary Feature Belleville Baby Forest of the Dancing Spirits No Burqas Behind Bars	Best Shortfilm On Suffocation Me Seal, Baby Äta lunch
Best Foreign Film Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) 12 Years a Slave (United States) The Turin Horse (Hungary)	Best Art Direction Paola Holmér and Linda Janson – We Are the Best! Wilda Wiholm – Shed No Tears Josefin Åsberg – Waltz for Monica
Best Original Score Matti Bye – Faro Matti Bye – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Peter Nordahl – Waltz for Monica	Best Sound Editing Mattias Eklund – Shed No Tears Petter Fladeby, Andreas Franck and Jens Johansson – Easy Money III: Life Deluxe Hans Møller – Waltz for Monica
Best Make-up/Hair Lisa Mustafa – We Are the Best! Eva von Bahr – Waltz for Monica Eva von Bahr and Love Larson – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Best Costume Design Kicki Ilander – Waltz for Monica Moa Li Lemhagen Schalin – We Are the Best! Ulrika Sjölin – Shed No Tears
Gullspiran Lukas Moodysson	Cinema Audience Award The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Waltz for Monica The Anderssons Hit the Road
Honorary Award Kalle Boman

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received one or multiple nominations:[3] Eleven: Waltz for Monica Nine: Shed No Tears Four: Hotell and The Reunion Three: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Easy Money III: Life Deluxe and We Are the Best! Two: Belleville Baby One: Nobody Owns Me, En gång om året, Forest of the Dancing Spirits, Faro, No Burqas Behind Bars, Me Seal, Baby, On Suffocation and Äta lunch

The following four films received multiple awards: Four: Waltz for Monica Two: The Reunion and We Are the Best!

References

1. "Sissela Kyle leder Guldbaggegalan" (in Swedish). Aftonbladet.se. December 23, 2013. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
2. "Vinnarjuryn" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen. Retrieved January 31, 2014.
3. Svenska Filminstitutet (January 3, 2014). "Nominerade: Guldbaggen" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen.se. Retrieved January 3, 2014.

External links

• Official website
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