Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay


The Guldbagge for Best Screenplay is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute as part of the Guldbagge Awards to screenwriters working in the Swedish motion picture industry.

Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best screenplay, which are listed from 1991 and forward.
YearScreenwriterFilm
1988
(24th)
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Det är långt till New York
1989
(25th)
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The Miracle in Valby
1990
(26th)
'Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
1991
(27th)
'Underground Secrets
1991
(27th)
Freud's Leaving Home
1991
(27th)
Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem
1992
(28th)
'The Best Intentions
1992
(28th)

Night of the Orangutan
1992
(28th)
House of Angels
1993
(29th)
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The Man on the Balcony
1993
(29th)
Speak Up! It's So Dark
1993
(29th)
The Slingshot
1994
(30th)
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Yrrol
1994
(30th)
The Hands
1994
(30th)
Sixten
1995
(31st)
'Like It Never Was Before
1995
(31st)

Between Summers
1995
(31st)

One in a Million
1996
(32nd)
'Hamsun
1996
(32nd)

Winter Bay
1996
(32nd)

The Hunters
1997
(33rd)
'Sanning eller konsekvens
1997
(33rd)
Tic Tac
1997
(33rd)

Adam & Eva
1998
(34th)
'Show Me Love
1998
(34th)
Glasblåsarns barn
1998
(34th)

Waiting for the Tenor
1999
(35th)
'Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen
1999
(35th)
Adult Behavior
1999
(35th)
Vägen ut
2000
(36th)
'Songs from the Second Floor
2000
(36th)

The New Country
2000
(36th)
Together
2001
(37th)
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Days Like This
2001
(37th)

As White as in Snow
2001
(37th)
A Song for Martin
2002
(38th)
'Lilya 4-ever
2002
(38th)
We Can Be Heroes!
2002
(38th)
Grabben i graven bredvid
2003
(39th)
'Daybreak
2003
(39th)

Evil
2003
(39th)
Details
2004
(40th)
'Dalecarlians
2004
(40th)

Four Shades of Brown
2004
(40th)

As It Is in Heaven
2005
(41st)
'Nina's Journey
2005
(41st)
Zozo
2005
(41st)
Mouth to Mouth
2006
(42nd)
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Kidz in da Hood
2006
(42nd)

Falkenberg Farewell
2006
(42nd)

When Darkness Falls
2007
(43rd)
'You, the Living
2007
(43rd)
Darling
2007
(43rd)
The New Man
2008
(44th)
'Let the Right One In
2008
(44th)

Involuntary
2008
(44th)

Everlasting Moments
2009
(45th)
'Bröllopsfotografen
2009
(45th)
Starring Maja
2009
(45th)
The Girl
2010
(46th)
'Pure
2010
(46th)

Simple Simon
2010
(46th)

Beyond
2011
(47th)
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She Monkeys
2011
(47th)
Stockholm East
2011
(47th)
Play
2012
(48th)
'Eat Sleep Die
2012
(48th)
Searching for Sugar Man
2012
(48th)
Call Girl
2013
(49th)
'The Reunion
2013
(49th)
Hotell
2013
(49th)
Shed No Tears
2014
(50th)
'Force Majeure
2014
(50th)

Something Must Break
2014
(50th)
Gentlemen
2015
(51st)
'Drifters
2015
(51st)
My Skinny Sister
2015
(51st)
Underdog
2016
(52nd)
'The Giant
2016
(52nd)

Bajsfilmen – Dolores och Gunellens värld
2016
(52nd)

My Aunt in Sarajevo
2016
(52nd)
The Yard
2017
(53rd)
'Sami Blood
2017
(53rd)

Citizen Schein
2017
(53rd)

A Hustler's Diary
2017
(53rd)
The Square
2018
(54th)
'Goliath
2018
(54th)
Gabriela Pichler
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Amateurs
2018
(54th)
Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide LindqvistBorder
2018
(54th)
Gunnar A.K. JärvstadGarden Lane
2019
(55th)
Levan Akin And Then We Danced
2019
(55th)
Roy AnderssonAbout Endlessness
2019
(55th)
Lisa AschanCall Mom!
2019
(55th)
Erlend LoeThe Perfect Patient
2020
(56th)
Uje Brandelius Spring Uje spring
2020
(56th)
Josephine Bornebusch and Gunnar A.K. JärvstadOrca
2020
(56th)
Maria BäckPsychosis in Stockholm
2020
(56th)
Amanda KernellCharter
2021
(56th)
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Maria Camila AriasClara Sola
2021
(56th)
Manuel ConchaSuedi
2021
(56th)
Hogir HiroriSabaya
2021
(56th)
Jan VierthApstjärnan