48th Guldbagge Awards


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 in 19 categories. The ceremony was televised in the Sweden by SVT, with actress and comedian Babben Larsson hosting the show.
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, Anna Carlson,, Bengt Forslund, Anna Croneman, Klaus Härö, Farnaz Arbabi, Matti Bye, Sylvia Ingemarsdotter and Marcus Lindeen.

Winner and nominees

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

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

  • Gabriela PichlerEat Sleep Die
  • *Mikael MarcimainCall Girl
  • *Jan TroellThe Last Sentence
  • Nermina LukacEat Sleep Die
  • *Pernilla AugustCall Girl
  • *Linda MolinBitch Hug
  • Johannes BrostAvalon
  • *Bengt C.W. Carlsson – Lycka till och ta hand om varandra
  • *Matias VarelaEasy Money II: Hard to Kill
  • Ulla SkoogThe Last Sentence
  • *Leonore Ekstrand – Avalon
  • *Yohanna IdhaKatinkas kalas
  • Peter CarlbergAvalon
  • *Milan Dragisic – Eat Sleep Die
  • *Fares FaresEasy Money II: Hard to Kill
  • Gabriela PichlerEat Sleep Die
  • *Malik BendjelloulSearching for Sugar Man
  • *Marietta von Hausswolff von BaumgartenCall Girl
  • Hoyte van HoytemaCall Girl
  • *Jan Troell and Mischa Gavrjusjov – The Last Sentence
  • *Måns Månsson – Avalon
  • Searching for Sugar Man
  • *Palme
  • *Pojktanten
  • Dance Music Now
  • *Fotografen
  • *Gläntan
  • Amour
  • *Laurence Anyways
  • *Moonrise Kingdom
  • Andreas Jonsson, Niels Pagh Andersen and Hanna Lejonqvist – Palme
  • *Kristofer Nordin – Call Girl
  • *Malik BendjelloulSearching for Sugar Man
  • Lina Nordqvist – Call Girl
  • *Sandra Lindgren – Bitchkram
  • *Peter Bävman and Pernilla Olsson – The Last Sentence
  • Benny AnderssonPalme
  • *Malik Bendjelloul and Sixto RodriguezSearching for Sugar Man
  • *Andreas Unge and Johan SöderqvistEl Medico - The Cubaton story
  • Jenny Fred – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
  • *Eros Codinas – Call Girl
  • *Maria Strid Zackrisson – The Last Sentence
  • Petter Fladeby and Per NyströmCall Girl
  • *Jonas Jansson – Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
  • *Malik Bendjelloul and Per NyströmSearching for Sugar Man
  • Cilla Rörby – Call Girl
  • *Katja Watkins – The Last Sentence
  • *Jaana Fomin – Mammas pojkar
  • Andreas Hylander – Isdraken
  • *Tim Morris – Call Girl
  • *Torbjörn Olsson – Hamilton - I nationens intresse
  • Ella Lemhagen, director
  • The Anderssons in Greece
  • *Hamilton - I nationens intresse
  • *Once Upon a Time in Phuket
  • Hans Alfredson, filmmaker and actor
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    Multiple nominations and awards

    The following films received one or multiple nominations:
    The following four films received multiple awards: