2009 Golden Beetle Nominations

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 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 [...]

by Andre Soares | January 1, 2009   
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Golden Beetles 2008

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
BEST FOREIGN FILM
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu
* This Is England, Shane Meadows
The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Det svider i hjärtat / Aching Heart, Oscar Hedin
* Nunnan / The Nun, Maud Nycander
Paradiset / Paradise, Jerzy Sladkowski
BEST DIRECTOR
* Roy Andersson, You the Living
Josef Fares, Leo
Johan Kling, Darling
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jonas Karlsson, Den man älskar / To Love Someone
* Michael Segerström, [...]

by Andre Soares | January 21, 2008   
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Golden Beetles 2008 Nominations

The nominations for the 2008 Golden Beetles — Sweden’s version of the Academy Awards — have been announced.
Roy Andersson’s best picture nominee You, the Living (above), a low-key comedy about the day-to-day difficulties of human life, was Sweden’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Academy Award. Late last year, Andersson received a best director nomination at the European Film Awards.
Johan Kling’s Darling, the year’s most nominated film and the Swedish Film Critics’ Association’s best film pick, is a Stockholm-set dark comedy of manners about a young woman whose path crosses that of a 60-year-old man. Darling had its production funding suspended by the Swedish Film Institute and had to be financed independently.
The third best film nominee, Josef [...]

by Andre Soares | January 8, 2008   
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Golden Beetle 2007

2007 Golden Beetle
Swedish Film Institute’s 2007 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) nominations: January 10, 2007
2007 Golden Beetle winners: Cirkus in Stockholm on January 22, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Best Film
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell – Producer: Anna Anthony
* Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood – Producers: Peter Holthausen, Pontus Sjöman
Storm – Producer: Karl Fredrik Ulfung
Best Foreign Language Film
Volver – Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Babel – Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
*Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others – Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary Film
Alice och jag / Alice and Me – Directors: Rebecka Rasmusson
Jag minns Håkan Alexandersson / I Remember Håkan Alexandersson – Director: Carl Johan De Geer
* Vikarien / The Substitute – Directors: Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren
Best Director
Jesper Ganslandt [...]

by Andre Soares | January 22, 2007   
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