Guldbagge Award for Best Director

Swedish film award

Guldbagge Award for Best Director

Country| Sweden
Presented by| Swedish Film Institute
First award| 1964 (for direction in films released during the 1963/1964 film season)
Winner| Levan Akin,
Crossing (2024)
Website| guldbaggen.se

The Guldbagge for Best Director is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to directors working in the Swedish motion picture industry.

## History

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Throughout the past 50 years, SFI has presented a total of 50 Best Director awards to 40 different directors. Along with the categories Best Film, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role, the award for Best director were one of the four original price categories which was presented at the first award ceremony in 1964.[1] At the 1st Guldbagge Awards (1963/1964), Ingmar Bergman was awarded the first Guldbagge for his film The Silence.[2] Since then, the prize has been awarded every year, except in 1971 where the only prize for best film was awarded, and in 1980 where only the categories Best Film, Best Actor along with the Ingmar Bergman Award.[2] At both the 30th Guldbagge Awards (1994) and the 42nd Guldbagge Awards (2006), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director.

The Guldbagge Awards for Best Director and Best Film have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was Ingmar Bergman, whose film The Silence won the Best Film award at the first 1st Guldbagge Awards.[2] The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, The Here After at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015).[3]

The first woman who won the award for Best Director was Marianne Ahrne, for the film Near and Far Away (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for The Mozart Brothers (1986), Åsa Faringer for The Daughter of the Puma (1994), Ella Lemhagen for Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen (1999), Catti Edfeldt and Ylva Gustavsson for Kidz in da Hood (2006), Lisa Siwe for Glowing Stars (2009), Pernilla August for Beyond (2010), and Gabriela Pichler for Eat Sleep Die (2012). Since 1991, when the nomination system was introduced with three nominees, the number of female directors has increased significantly, with a total of 22 women. The first woman that got nominated was Susanne Bier for the film Freud's Leaving Home (1991).[2]

## Winners and nominees

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Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Directing and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director, which are listed from 1991 and forward.

For the first nineteen ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Guldbagge Awards presented on October 15, 1965, recognized films that were released between July, 1964 and June, 1965.[1][4] Starting with the 20th Guldbagge Awards, held in 1985, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. The Awards presented at that ceremony were in respect of 18 months of film production owing to the changeover from the broken calendar year to the standard calendar year during 1984.[1] Due to a mediocre film year, no awards ceremony was held in 1971.[5]

Winners before the nomination system (1964–1990)

Winners under the nomination system (1991–present)

Ingmar Bergman won two awards, the first for The Silence, and the second for Fanny and Alexander. Alf Sjöberg won in 1965/66 for directing Ön. Jan Troell won two awards in this category, for Here's Your Life and As White as in Snow, and was nominated for two: Everlasting Moments and The Last Sentence. Bo Widerberg won two awards in this category, Ådalen 31, and All Things Fair. Tage Danielsson won in 1971/72 for directing The Apple War. Hans Alfredsson won three awards in this category, Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story, The Simple-Minded Murderer, and False as Water. Suzanne Osten won in 1986 for directing The Mozart Brothers. Max von Sydow won in 1988 for directing Katinka. Kjell Sundvall won in 1996 for directing The Hunters. Ella Lemhagen won in 1999 for directing Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen. Gabriela Pichler won in 2012 for directing Eat Sleep Die. Ruben Östlund won three awards in this category, Play, Force Majeure, and The Square. Year  | Director(s)  | Film  | Ref.

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1963/64
(1st) | Ingmar Bergman‡  | The Silence | [6]
1964/65
(2nd) | Arne Sucksdorff‡  | My Home Is Copacabana |
1965/66
(3rd) | Alf Sjöberg‡  | Ön |
1966/67
(4th) | Jan Troell‡  | Here's Your Life | [7]
1967/68
(5th) | Kjell Grede‡  | Hugo and Josephine | [8]
1968/69
(6th) | Bo Widerberg‡  | Ådalen 31 |
1969/70
(7th) | Lars Lennart Forsberg‡  | Mistreatment |
1970/71 | —
(no award given) | —
(no award given) |
1971/72
(8th) | Tage Danielsson‡  | The Apple War |
1972/73
(9th) | Johan Bergenstråhle‡  | Foreigners |
1973/74
(10th) | Vilgot Sjöman‡  | A Handful of Love |
1974/75
(11th) | Hans Alfredson‡  | Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story | [9]
1975/76
(12th) | Jan Halldoff‡  | Buddies |
1976/77
(13th) | Marianne Ahrne‡  | Near and Far Away |
1977/78
(14th) | Olle Hellbom‡  | The Brothers Lionheart |
1978/79
(15th) | Stefan Jarl‡  | A Respectable Life |
1979/80
(16th) | —
(no award given) | —
(no award given) |
1980/81
(17th) | Kay Pollak‡  | Children's Island |
1981/82
(18th) | Hans Alfredson‡  | The Simple-Minded Murderer | [9]
1982/83
(19th) | Ingmar Bergman‡  | Fanny and Alexander | [6]
1984
(20th) | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson‡  | When the Raven Flies |
1985
(21st) | Hans Alfredson | False as Water | [9]
1986
(22nd) | Suzanne Osten‡  | The Mozart Brothers |
1987
(23rd) | Kjell Grede‡  | Hip hip hurra! | [8]
1988
(24th) | Max von Sydow‡  | Katinka |
1989
(25th) | Åke Sandgren‡  | The Miracle in Valby |
1990
(26th) | Kjell Grede‡  | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg | [8][10]
1991
(27th) | Anders Grönros‡  | Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia | [11]
Susanne Bier | Freud's Leaving Home
Clas Lindberg | Underground Secrets
1992
(28th) | Colin Nutley‡  | House of Angels | [12]
Kjell-Åke Andersson | Night of the Orangutan
Bille August | The Best Intentions
1993
(29th) | Clas Lindberg‡  | The Ferris Wheel | [13]
Daniel Alfredson | The Man on the Balcony
Åke Sandgren | The Slingshot
1994
(30th) | Ulf Hultberg‡
Åsa Faringer‡  | The Daughter of the Puma |
Catti Edfeldt | Sixten
Rainer Hartleb | A Pizza in Jordbro
1995
(31st) | Bo Widerberg‡  | All Things Fair |
Kristian Petri | Between Summers
Tomas Alfredson | Bert: The Last Virgin
1996
(32nd) | Kjell Sundvall‡  | The Hunters |
Kjell-Åke Andersson | Christmas Oratorio
Ella Lemhagen | The Dream Prince
1997
(33rd) | Daniel Alfredson‡  | Tic Tac |
Måns Herngren
Hannes Holm | Adam & Eva
Christina Olofson | Sanning eller konsekvens
1998
(34th) | Lukas Moodysson‡  | Show Me Love |
Solveig Nordlund | Nelio's Story
Lisa Ohlin | Waiting for the Tenor
1999
(35th) | Ella Lemhagen‡  | Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen |
Anders Nilsson | Zero Tolerance
Kjell Sundvall | In Bed with Santa
2000
(36th) | Roy Andersson‡  | Songs from the Second Floor |
Geir Hansteen Jörgensen | The New Country
Lukas Moodysson | Together
2001
(37th) | Jan Troell‡  | As White as in Snow |
Mikael Håfström | Days Like This
Bille August | A Song for Martin
2002
(38th) | Lukas Moodysson‡  | Lilya 4-ever |
Ulf Malmros | We Can Be Heroes!
Kjell Sundvall | Grabben i graven bredvid
2003
(39th) | Björn Runge‡  | Daybreak |
Mikael Håfström | Evil
Kristian Petri | Details
2004
(40th) | Tomas Alfredson‡  | Four Shades of Brown |
Maria Blom | Dalecarlians
Kay Pollak | As It Is in Heaven
2005
(41st) | Ulf Malmros‡  | Tjenare kungen |
Josef Fares | Zozo
Björn Runge | Mouth to Mouth
2006
(42nd) | Catti Edfeldt‡
Ylva Gustavsson‡  | Kidz in da Hood |
Jesper Ganslandt | Falkenberg Farewell
Anders Nilsson | When Darkness Falls
2007
(43rd) | Roy Andersson‡  | You, the Living |
Josef Fares | Leo
Johan Kling | Darling
2008
(44th) | Tomas Alfredson‡  | Let the Right One In | [14][15]
Jan Troell | Everlasting Moments
Ruben Östlund | Involuntary
2009
(45th) | Lisa Siwe‡  | Glowing Stars | [16]
Teresa Fabik | Starring Maja
Fredrik Edfeldt | The Girl
2010
(46th) | Pernilla August‡  | Beyond | [17]
Lisa Langseth | Pure
Babak Najafi | Sebbe
2011
(47th) | Ruben Östlund‡  | Play | [18]
Lisa Aschan | She Monkeys
Lisa Ohlin | Simon and the Oaks
2012
(48th) | Gabriela Pichler‡  | Eat Sleep Die | [19][20]
Mikael Marcimain | Call Girl
Jan Troell | The Last Sentence
2013
(49th) | Per Fly‡  | Waltz for Monica | [21][22]
Anna Odell | The Reunion
Måns Mårlind
Björn Stein | Shed No Tears
2014
(50th) | Ruben Östlund‡  | Force Majeure | [23][24]
Mikael Marcimain | Gentlemen
Roy Andersson | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2015
(51st) | Magnus von Horn‡  | The Here After | [25][26]
Sanna Lenken | My Skinny Sister
Peter Grönlund | Drifters
2016
(52nd) | Goran Kapetanović‡  | My Aunt in Sarajevo | [27][28]
Felix Herngren
Måns Herngren | The 101-Year Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
Hanna Sköld | Granny´s Dancing on the Table
Alexandra-Therese Keining | Girls Lost
2017
(53rd) | Ruben Östlund‡  | The Square | [29][30]
Amanda Kernell | Sami Blood
Janus Metz Pedersen | Borg McEnroe
Tarik Saleh | The Nile Hilton Incident
2018
(54th) | Carl Javér | Reconstructing Utøya | [31][32]
Ali Abbasi | Border
Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén | The Real Estate
Gabriela Pichler | Amateurs
2019
(55th) | Hugo Lilja and Pella Kågerman ‡  | Aniara | [33][34]
Levan Akin | And Then We Danced
Roy Andersson | About Endlessness
Jon Holmberg | Sune – Best Man [sv]
2020
(56th) | Amanda Kernell ‡  | Charter | [35][36]
Nathan Grossman | Greta
Maria Bäck | Psychosis in Stockholm
Henrik Schyffert | Spring Uje spring
2021
(57th) | Nathalie Álvarez Mesén ‡  | Clara Sola | [37]
Gorki Glaser-Müller | Children of the Enemy
Ninja Thyberg | Pleasure
Ronnie Sandahl | Tigers

## International presence

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As the Guldbagge Awards are based in Sweden and are centered on the Swedish film industry, the majority of Guldbagge Award winners have been Swedish. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Guldbagge Award for Best Director.

* Denmark: Per Fly
* Iceland: Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
* United Kingdom: Colin Nutley

However, no director has won for a film that is entirely in a foreign language.

Several international nominees include:

* Denmark: Susanne Bier and Bille August (nominated for 2 films)
* Germany: Rainer Hartleb

## Notes and references

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1. ^ a b c "Guldbagge Award categories". The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
2. ^ a b c d "The Guldbagge Awards". The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
3. ^ "Utmärkelser" (in Swedish). The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
4. ^ "Värdar, tid och plats för alla Guldbaggegalor" (in Swedish). The Swedish Film Database. Archived from the original on March 10, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
5. ^ "När filmgalan var ny" (in Swedish). The Swedish Film Database. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
6. ^ a b "Ingmar Bergman". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
7. ^ "Jan Troell". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
8. ^ a b c "Kjell Grede". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
9. ^ a b c "Hans Alfredson". Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
10. ^ "Guldbagge Awards 1991 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute". FilmAffinity. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
11. ^ "Guldbagge Awards 1992 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute". FilmAffinity. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
12. ^ "Guldbagge Awards 1993 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute". FilmAffinity. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
13. ^ "Guldbagge Awards 1994 (Sweden) - Swedish Film Institute". FilmAffinity. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
14. ^ "Guldbaggenomineringar 2008". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). January 10, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
15. ^ Widman, Linda (January 12, 2009). "Här är galans alla vinnare". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved February 6, 2018.
16. ^ Peterson, Jens; Holmqvist, Emilia; Wejbro, Sandra (January 8, 2010). "De kan vinna baggar". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved February 8, 2017.
17. ^ "De krigar om Guldbaggarna". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). January 24, 2011. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
18. ^ Fellman, Erik (January 23, 2012). "Guldbaggen 2012 : Vinnare" (in Swedish). Filmkritikerna. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
19. ^ "Nomineringarna till Guldbaggen" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan.se. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
20. ^ Fellman, Erik (January 21, 2013). "Guldbaggen 2013 : Vinnare" (in Swedish). Filmkritikerna. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
21. ^ Svenska Filminstitutet (January 3, 2014). "Nominerade". guldbaggen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
22. ^ "Guldbaggen 2014: Vinnarna" (in Swedish). MovieZine.se. January 21, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
23. ^ Svenska Filminstitutet (January 8, 2015). "Nominerade". guldbaggen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 8 January 2015.
24. ^ "Alla vinnare Guldbaggen 2015" (in Swedish). SVT. January 26, 2015. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
25. ^ "Nominations for the 2015 Guldbagge Awards" (Press release). Swedish Film Institute. January 4, 2016. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
26. ^ Norman, Isabel; Nykänen, Joni (January 18, 2016). "Glädjevrålet på Guldbaggegalan". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved January 19, 2016.
27. ^ Anderberg, Carl Adam. "Nominerade" (in Swedish). Moviezine. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
28. ^ Folcker, Sebastian (January 23, 2017). "De blev årets vinnare". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved January 23, 2017.
29. ^ Haimi, Rebecca (January 4, 2018). "Flest nomineringar till Borg – Östlund: "Det känns okej"". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
30. ^ Pettersson, Leo (January 22, 2018). "Glädjetårar efter Sameblods succé". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved January 22, 2018.
31. ^ "De är nominerade till Guldbaggen 2019". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
32. ^ "Guldbaggevinnare avslöjades i förtid" (in Swedish). January 29, 2019.
33. ^ "De är nominerade till Guldbaggen 2019". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
34. ^ da Silva, Tali; Rönnqvist Fors, Klara (20 January 2020). "And then we danced vann bästa film på Guldbaggegalan". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
35. ^ "2020 års Guldbaggenomineringar!". Guldbaggen.se. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
36. ^ Adelai, Amina; Farran-Lee, Lydia (25 January 2021). "Charter och Spring Uje spring tog hem de tunga priserna". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 January 2021.
37. ^ "2021 års Guldbaggenomineringar". The Swedish Film & TV Producers Association. 17 December 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2022.

## See also

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* Academy Award for Best Director
* BAFTA Award for Best Direction
* Golden Globe Award for Best Director
* Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film

## External links

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* Official website (in English)
* Official website (in Swedish)
* Guldbagge Awards at IMDb

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Guldbagge Award for Best Director

1963–1999|

* Ingmar Bergman (1963/64)
* Arne Sucksdorff (1964/65)
* Alf Sjöberg (1965/66)
* Jan Troell (1966/67)
* Kjell Grede (1967/68)
* Bo Widerberg (1968/69)
* Lars Lennart Forsberg (1969/70)
* Tage Danielsson (1971/72)
* Johan Bergenstråhle (1972/73)
* Vilgot Sjöman (1973/74)
* Hasse Alfredson (1974/75)
* Jan Halldoff (1975/76)
* Marianne Ahrne (1976/77)
* Olle Hellbom (1977/78)
* Stefan Jarl (1978/79)
* Kay Pollak (1980/81)
* Hasse Alfredson (1981/82)
* Ingmar Bergman (1982/83)
* Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (1984)
* Hasse Alfredson (1985)
* Suzanne Osten (1986)
* Kjell Grede (1987)
* Max von Sydow (1988)
* Åke Sandgren (1989)
* Kjell Grede (1990)
* Anders Grönros (1991)
* Colin Nutley (1992)
* Clas Lindberg (1993)
* Ulf Hultberg & Åsa Faringer (1994)
* Bo Widerberg (1995)
* Kjell Sundvall (1996)
* Daniel Alfredson (1997)
* Lukas Moodysson (1998)
* Ella Lemhagen (1999)

2000–present|

* Roy Andersson (2000)
* Jan Troell (2001)
* Lukas Moodysson (2002)
* Björn Runge (2003)
* Tomas Alfredson (2004)
* Ulf Malmros (2005)
* Ylva Gustavsson & Catti Edfeldt (2006)
* Roy Andersson (2007)
* Tomas Alfredson (2008)
* Lisa Siwe (2009)
* Pernilla August (2010)
* Ruben Östlund (2011)
* Gabriela Pichler (2012)
* Per Fly (2013)
* Ruben Östlund (2014)
* Magnus von Horn (2015)
* Goran Kapetanović (2016)
* Ruben Östlund (2017)
* Carl Javér (2018)
* Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja (2019)
* Amanda Kernell (2020)
* Nathalie Álvarez Mesén (2021)

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* Swedish Film Institute
* Swedish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
* Cinema of Sweden

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* Director
* Screenplay
* Actor
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* Supporting Actor
* Supporting Actress
* Documentary Feature
* Cinematography
* Costume Design
* Makeup and Hair
* Original Score
* Art Direction

Special awards|

* Honorary Award
* Audience Award
* Gullspiran

Former awards|

* Foreign Film

| Special Awards|

* Ingmar Bergman Award
* Newcomer Award

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