Guldbagge Awards 2009
2009 Golden Beetle Awards
2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle (Guldbagge aka Golden Bug) award nominations: December 30, 2008
2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle award winners: Cirkus in Stockholm, January 12, 2009
A jury of 31 members picked the 2009 Guldbagge Award nominees.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments, a Golden Globe nominee and Sweden’s entry for the 2009 best foreign-language film Academy Award, received eight Golden Beetle nominations, including best film, director, actor, actress, and screenplay. Set in the early 1900s, Everlasting Moments follows a young working-class woman (Finnish actress Maria Heiskanen) who wins a camera in a lottery, thus gaining a new outlook in life. The screenplay was written by Niklas Rådström from a story by Troell and his wife, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell, whose grandmother was the inspiration for the film’s lead character.
Troell has previously won five Golden Beetles: two for director (Here’s Your Life, 1966, and As White as Snow, 2001), one for cinematography (As White as Snow, shared with Mischa Gavrjusjov), one for producing the year’s best film (Il Capitano, 1991), and a career achievement award (1989).
With five nominations apiece, 2009 Golden Beetle runners-up were Tomas Alfredson’s vampire drama Let the Right One In and Ruben Ostlund’s teen drama Involuntary.
Best Film
De ofrivilliga / Involuntary, Producer: Erik Hemmendorff
Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right One In, Producers: John Nordling och Carl Molinder
* Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick / Everlasting Moments, Producer: Thomas Stenderup
Best Foreign Language Film
* Lust, Caution, Director: Ang Lee
No Country for Old Men, Director: Joel Coen
There Will Be Blood, Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Documentary Film
H:r Landshövding / Mr Governor, Director: Måns Månsson
En enastående studie i mänsklig förnedring / An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation, Director: Patrik Eriksson
* Maggie vaknar på balkongen / Maggie in Wonderland, Director: Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark, Beatrice Maggie Andersson
Best Director
* Tomas Alfredson, for Let the Right One In
Jan Troell, for Everlasting Moments
Ruben Östlund, for Involuntary
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Lena Endre, for her role as Susanna in Himlens hjärta / Heaven’s Heart
* Maria Heiskanen, for her role as Maria Larsson in Everlasting Moments
Cecilia Milocco, for her role as the teacher in Involuntary
Best Actor in a Leading Role
* Mikael Persbrandt, for his role as Sigfrid Larsson in Everlasting Moments
Gustaf Skarsgård, for his role as Göran Skoogh in Patrik 1,5 / Patrik Age 1.5
Peter Stormare, for his role as Klemens in Varg / Wolf
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
* Maria Lundqvist, for her role as Ann in Heaven’s Heart
Amanda Ooms, for her role as Mathilda in Everlasting Moments
Marie Robertson, for her role as Birgitta in Rallybrudar
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
* Jesper Christensen, for his role as Sebastian Pedersen in Everlasting Moments
Torkel Petersson, for his role as Sven Skoogh in Patrik Age 1.5
Per Ragnar, for his role as Håkan in Let the Right One In
Best Screenplay
* John Ajvide Lindqvist, for his script for Let the Right One In
Niklas Rådström, Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell and Jan Troell, for their script for Everlasting Moments
Ruben Östlund and Erik Hemmendorff, for their script for Involuntary
Best Cinematography
Marius Dybwad Brandrud, for his cinematography in Involuntary
* Hoyte van Hoytema, for his cinematography in Let the Right One In
Jan Troell och Mischa Gavrjusjov, for their cinematography in Everlasting Moments
Best Short Film and best Documentary Film
Dockpojken / Puppetboy, Director: Johannes Nyholm
Istället för abrakadabra / Instead of Abracadabra, Director: Patrik Eklund
* Lögner / Lies, Director: Jonas Odell
Best Achievement (special awards)
Composer Matti Bye, Everlasting Moments
Production designer Eva Norén, Let the Right One In
Per Sundström and his sound crew Jonas Jansson and Patrik Strömdahl, Let the Right One In
Lifetime Achievement Award: Actress Harriet Andersson
The Gullspira Award (for extraordinary contributions in films for children): Georg Riedel
Audience Award: Arn – Riket vid vägens slut / Arn: The Kingdom at Road’s End, director: Peter Flinth
Golden Beetle Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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I believe that Everlasting Moments will win the Oscar this year. It has sentiment and feeling and is beautiful to look at. Some great performances too. It deserves to win. Jan Troell is a genius.
Something tells me that “Everlasting Moments” will pull an upset and will bag the best foreign language film Oscar, instead of current favorite “Waltz with Bashir.”
We shall see…
It’s one of the films still in the running for the foreing language Oscar. It may win. I dunno. Either that or Bashir.
It won’t win. Waltz with Bashir is the winner, hands down. It can’t win in the animated category because Wall-e will win. So they’ll give it the foreign film award.