Guldbagge 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 [...]

The Swedish Film Institute has announced the nominees for its 2007 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) awards. All three best film nominees are their respective directors' feature-film debuts: Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell (above) is Jesper Ganslandt's touching — and more than little disturbing — coming-of-age comedy-drama. Shot in semi-documentary style, Falkenberg Farewell follows five childhood friends in the small beach town of Falkenberg, where they do [...]