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, 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 Pichler – Eat Sleep Die
  • *Mikael Marcimain – Call Girl
  • *Jan Troell – The Last Sentence
  • Nermina Lukac – Eat Sleep Die
  • *Pernilla August – Call Girl
  • *Linda Molin – Bitch Hug
  • Johannes Brost – Avalon
  • *Bengt C.W. Carlsson – Lycka till och ta hand om varandra
  • *Matias Varela – '
  • Ulla Skoog – The Last Sentence
  • *Leonore Ekstrand – Avalon
  • *Yohanna Idha – Katinkas kalas
  • Peter Carlberg – Avalon
  • *Milan Dragisic – Eat Sleep Die
  • *Fares Fares – '
  • Gabriela Pichler – Eat Sleep Die
  • *Malik Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man
  • *Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten – Call Girl
  • Hoyte van Hoytema – Call 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 Bendjelloul – Searching for Sugar Man
  • Lina Nordqvist – Call Girl
  • *Sandra Lindgren – Bitchkram
  • *Peter Bävman and Pernilla Olsson – The Last Sentence
  • Benny Andersson – Palme
  • *Malik Bendjelloul and Sixto Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man
  • *Andreas Unge and Johan Söderqvist – El Medico - The Cubaton story
  • Jenny Fred –
  • *Eros Codinas – Call Girl
  • *Maria Strid Zackrisson – The Last Sentence
  • Petter Fladeby and Per Nyström – Call Girl
  • *Jonas Jansson – '
  • *Malik Bendjelloul and Per Nyström – Searching 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:
    • Eleven: Call Girl
    • Six: The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man
    • Five: Eat Sleep Die
    • Four: Avalon and
    • 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