49th Guldbagge Awards explained

Number:	49
Award:	Guldbagge Awards
Date:	January 20, 2014
Site:	Cirkus, Stockholm
Host:	Sissela Kyle
Best Picture:	The Reunion
Most Wins:	Waltz for Monica (4)
Most Nominations:	Waltz for Monica (11)
Network:	SVT
Duration:	2 hours
Last:	48th
Next:	50th

The 49th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2013 and took place January 20, 2014, at Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury presented Guldbagge Awards (commonly referred to as Bagge) in 19 categories. The ceremony was televised in the Sweden by SVT, with actress and comedian Sissela Kyle hosting the show for the third time. The ceremony also celebrated the prize's 50th anniversary.^[1]

Waltz for Monica won four awards including Best Actress for Edda Magnason and Best Director for Per Fly. The Reunion won two awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay. Other winners included We Are the Best! with two awards, and Nobody Owns Me, Hotell, The Tenderness, Belleville Baby, On Suffocation, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Sanctuary, Faro and Shed No Tears 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 (chairman), Anna Carlson (actress and chairman of The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film), Bengt Forslund (producer and writer), Jan Holmberg (ceo, Ingmar Bergman Foundation), Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin (consultant of Film Stockholm/Filmbasen and producer), Kathrine Windfeld (director), Farnaz Arbabi (director and playwright), Sylvia Ingemarsdotter (film editor) and Marcus Lindeen (director and playwright).^[2]

Winner and nominees

The nominees for the 49th Guldbagge Awards were announced on January 3, 2014 in Stockholm, by the Swedish Film Institute.^[3]

Films with the most nominations were Waltz for Monica with eleven, followed by Shed No Tears with nine. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 20, 2014.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

The Reunion Shed No Tears Waltz for Monica	Per Fly – Waltz for Monica Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein – Shed No Tears Anna Odell – The Reunion
Edda Magnason – Waltz for Monica Anna Odell – The Reunion Gunilla Röör – En gång om året	Mikael Persbrandt – Nobody Owns Me Robert Gustafsson – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Matias Varela –
Anna Bjelkerud – Hotell Mira Eklund – Hotell Josefin Neldén – Shed No Tears	Sverrir Gudnason – Waltz for Monica Kjell Bergqvist – Waltz for Monica David Dencik – Hotell
Anna Odell – The Reunion Cilla Jackert – Shed No Tears Lisa Langseth – Hotell	Petrus Sjövik – The Tenderness Eric Kress – Waltz for Monica Erik Sohlström – Shed No Tears
Belleville Baby Forest of the Dancing Spirits No Burqas Behind Bars	On Suffocation Me Seal, Baby Äta lunch
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (France) 12 Years a Slave (United States) The Turin Horse (Hungary)	Paola Holmér and Linda Janson – We Are the Best! Wilda Wiholm – Shed No Tears Josefin Åsberg – Waltz for Monica
Matti Bye – Faro Matti Bye – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Peter Nordahl – Waltz for Monica	Mattias Eklund – Shed No Tears Petter Fladeby, Andreas Franck and Jens Johansson – Hans Møller – Waltz for Monica
Lisa Mustafa – We Are the Best! Eva von Bahr – Waltz for Monica Eva von Bahr and Love Larson – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	Kicki Ilander – Waltz for Monica Moa Li Lemhagen Schalin – We Are the Best! Ulrika Sjölin – Shed No Tears
Lukas Moodysson	The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Waltz for Monica The Anderssons Hit the Road
Kalle Boman

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received one or multiple nominations:^[3]

• Eleven: Waltz for Monica
• Nine: Shed No Tears
• Four: Hotell and The Reunion
• Three: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, and We Are the Best!
• Two: Belleville Baby
• One: Nobody Owns Me, En gång om året, Forest of the Dancing Spirits, Faro, No Burqas Behind Bars, Me Seal, Baby, On Suffocation and Äta lunch

The following four films received multiple awards:

• Four: Waltz for Monica
• Two: The Reunion and We Are the Best!

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sissela Kyle leder Guldbaggegalan . Aftonbladet.se. December 23, 2013 . January 2, 2014. sv.
2. Web site: Vinnarjuryn. Guldbaggen. January 31, 2014. sv.
3. Web site: Svenska Filminstitutet. January 3, 2014. Nominerade: Guldbaggen . sv. Guldbaggen.se. January 3, 2014.