The Guldbagge Awards were held at Cirkus in Stockholm overnight, with The Giant and The Yard receiving three awards each, and Martha & Niki, My Aunt in Sarajevo and A Serious Game receiving two each. Petra Mede was this year’s host.
Awarded annually since 1964, the Guldbagge (“Golden Beetle”) is the name of the Swedish Film Institute’s award for achievements during the previous year. The award itself, in the form of a flower chafer beetle, was designed by the artist Karl Axel Pehrson.
Here are the winners:
Best Film
The Giant/Jätten
Producers: Maria Dahlin and Morten Kjems Hytten Juhl
Best Director
Goran Kapetanović
for My Aunt in Sarajevo/Min faster in Sarajevo
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Maria Sundbom
for the role as Siri in The Girl, the Mother and the Demons/Flickan, mamman och demonerna
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Anders Mossling
for the role as 11811 in The Yard/Yarden
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Sadžida Šetić
for the role as Radmila in My Aunt in Sarajevo/Min faster i Sarajevo
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Michael Nyqvist for the role as editor in chief Markel in A Serious Game/Den allvarsamma leken
Best Screenplay
Johannes Nyholm
for the screenplay for The Giant/Jätten
Best Cinematography
Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
for cinematography in The Yard/Yarden
Best Editing
Tora Mkandawire Mårtens and Therese Elfström
for the editing of Martha & Niki
Best Costume
Kicki Ilander
for the costumes in A Serious Game/Den allvarsamma leken
Best Sound/Sound design
Patrik Strömdahl
for the sound on The Yard/Yarden
Best Makeup
Eva von Bahr, Love Larson and Pia Aleborg
for mask/make-up in The Giant/Jätten
Best Original Score
Jan Sandström
for The Garbage Helicopter/Sophelikoptern
Best Set Design
Liv Ask and Bengt Fröderberg
for My Future Love/Flykten till framtiden
Best Visual Effects
Fredrik Nord
for 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared/Hundraettåringen som smet från notan och försvann
Best Documentary Film
Martha & Niki
by Tora Mkandawire Mårtens
Best Short Film
6A
by Peter Modestij
Best Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul/Saul fia
by László Nemes
The jury consisted of nine members; Stina Ekblad, Jan Holmberg, Marek Septimus Wieser, Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin, Marcus Lindeen, Lisa Ohlin, Håkon Skogrand, Lena Endre and Chairman Jannike Åhlund.
More awards at the Guldbagge:
Best Newcomer
Ahang Bashi for her achievements in Fragility/Skörheten
Lifetime Achievement Award
The board of the Swedish Film Institute extends the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award to: Producer Katinka Faragó
Gullspira
A jury consisting of Jannike Åhlund, Malena Janson, Pia Huss, Ulf Synnerholm, Julia Jarl and Johan Bogaeus have decided to give Gullspira 2017 to: Director Petter Lennstrand
The Audience Award
101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared/Hundraettåringen som smet från notan och försvann
Producer: Malte Forssell
