24/01/2012

”A typical example of typecasting,” said Swedish actor and singer Sven-Bertil Taube. ”In the film I am an old, half-blind man with a heart condition, and this is exactly what I am.”

At Sweden’s Guldbagge awards gala yesterday (January 23) in Stockholm’s Cirkus, the 77-year-old legend was up against Mikael Persbrandt, when it came to Best Actor – and it nearly brought the house down when he was called on stage to receive the country’s national film prize for his performance in Richard Hobert’s A One-way to Antibes [+see also:
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film profile]. Taube has been nominated three times, and won once.

Two women directors, Lisa Aschan and Ella Lemhagen, both collected three statuettes for She Monkeys [+see also:
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interview: Lisa Aschan
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interview: Bill Skarsgård
film profile], although it was considered in 13 categories.

Finished only the week before, She Monkeys won last year’s €135,000 Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film at the Göteborg International Film Festival, later to be named Best Narrative Feature at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival. The Crown Jewels is among the seven Swedish selections for the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival (February 9-19), where it will compete in Generation 14plus.

The nine-member Guldbagge jury chaired over by Swedish critic and artistic director of the Ingmar Bergman Estate on Fårö Foundation Jannike Åhlund gave Ruben Östlund’s Play [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
interview: Ruben Ostlund
film profile] two Karl Axel Pehrson-designed beetle statuettes (Best Director, Cinematography). Östlund’s lead actors were not permitted to attend the ceremony, since they are all under 18.

Full list of Guldbagge winners 2011

Best Film
She Monkeys, produced by Helene Lindholm. Directed by Lisa Aschan.

Best Director
Ruben Östlund - Play

Best Actress
Ann Petrén - Happy End

Best Actor
Sven-Bertil Taube - A One-way to Antibes

Best Supporting Actress
Cecilia Nilsson - Simon and the Oaks

Best Supporting Actor
Jan Josef Liefers - Simon and the Oaks

Best Screenplay
Josefine Adolfsson and Lisa Aschan - She Monkeys

Best Cinematography
Marius Dybwad Brandrud - Play

Best Editing
Göran Hugo Olsson, Hanna Lejonqvist - The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Best Costumes
Moa Li Lemhagen Schalin - The Crown Jewels

Best Sound
Andreas Franck - She Monkeys

Best Make Up
Anna-Lena Melin - Beyond the Border

Best Musical Score
Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Om’Mas Keith - The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Best Set Design
Roger Rosenberg - The Crown Jewels

Best Visual Effects
Håkan Blomdahl, Torbjörn Olsson - The Crown Jewels

Best Foreign Language Film
A Separation - Asghar Farhadi

Best Short
Las Palmas - Johannes Nyholm

Best Documentary
At Night I Fly - Michel Wenzer

The Swedish Film Institute honoured 84-year-old actress Inga Landgré with the Guldbagge Lifetime Achievement Award – Landgré was in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957), most recently in US director David Fincher’s Millennium 1 remake, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Directors-producers Ylva-Li Gustafsson and Lennart Gustafsson left with the Gullspira Award for their contributions to children’s films.