Golden Beetle Articles

At a meeting held Monday, the 2009 Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) jury comprised of Katinka Faragó, Nils Petter Sundgren, Pia Johansson, Jannike Åhlund, Johan Renck, Mikael Marcimain and Guldbagge jury chairman Eva Swartz Grimaldi (not voting) picked Niels Arden Oplev's box-office smash The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as the best Swedish picture of the year. Adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (from Stieg Larsson's [...]

Box-office sensation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is up for a Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Award for the best Swedish picture of 2009. Strangely, director Niels Arden Oplev wasn't nominated — The Girl's Fredrik Edfeldt took his place — though Noomi Rapace (above) is in the running for best actress. A surprise blockbuster, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has earned more than $100 million [...]

Jesper Christensen, Maria Heiskanen in Everlasting Moments 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 [...]

2008 Golden Beetles Swedish Film Institute's 2008 Golden Beetle (aka Guldbagge) nominations: January 8, 2008. A special six-member jury later picked the Best Achievement winners. 2008 Golden Beetle winners: Stockholm, January 21, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     BEST FILM Darling, produced by Fredrik Heinig * Du levande / You the Living, produced by Pernilla Sandström Leo, produced by Anna Anthony [...]