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 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. At the 1st Guldbagge Awards (1963/1964), Ingmar Bergman was awarded the first Guldbagge for his film The Silence. 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. 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. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, The Here After at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015).
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 Leaving Home (1991).
Winners and nominees 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. 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. Due to a mediocre film year, no awards ceremony was held in 1971.
Year Director(s) Film 1963/64(1st) The Silence 1964/65(2nd) My Home Is Copacabana 1965/66(3rd) Ön 1966/67(4th) Here's Your Life 1967/68(5th) Hugo and Josephine 1968/69(6th) Ådalen 31 1969/70(7th) Mistreatment 1970/71 —(no award given) —(no award given) 1971/72(8th) The Apple War 1972/73(9th) Foreigners 1973/74(10th) A Handful of Love 1974/75(11th) Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story 1975/76(12th) Polare 1976/77(13th) Near and Far Away 1977/78(14th) The Brothers Lionheart 1978/79(15th) A Respectable Life 1979/80(16th) —(no award given) —(no award given) 1980/81(17th) Children's Island 1981/82(18th) The Simple-Minded Murderer 1982/83(19th) Fanny and Alexander 1984(20th) When the Raven Flies 1985(21st) False as Water 1986(22nd) The Mozart Brothers 1987(23rd) Hip hip hurra! 1988(24th) Katinka 1989(25th) The Miracle in Valby 1990(26th) Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg 1991(27th) Agnes Cecilia – en sällsam historia Freud Leaving Home Underground Secrets 1992(28th) House of Angels Night of the Orangutan The Best Intentions 1993(29th) The Ferris Wheel The Man on the Balcony The Slingshot 1994(30th) The Daughter of the Puma Sixten A Pizza in Jordbro 1995(31st) All Things Fair Between Summers Bert: The Last Virgin 1996(32nd) The Hunters Christmas Oratorio The Dream Prince 1997(33rd) Tic Tac Adam & Eva Sanning eller konsekvens 1998(34th) Show Me Love Nelio's Story Waiting for the Tenor 1999(35th) Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen Zero Tolerance In Bed with Santa 2000(36th) Songs from the Second Floor The New Country Together 2001(37th) As White as in Snow Days Like This A Song for Martin 2002(38th) Lilya 4-ever We Can Be Heroes! Grabben i graven bredvid 2003(39th) Daybreak Evil Details 2004(40th) Four Shades of Brown Dalecarlians As It Is in Heaven 2005(41st) Tjenare kungen Zozo Mouth to Mouth 2006(42nd) Kidz in da Hood Falkenberg Farewell When Darkness Falls 2007(43rd) You, the Living Leo Darling 2008(44th) Let the Right One In Everlasting Moments Involuntary 2009(45th) Glowing Stars Starring Maja The Girl 2010(46th) Beyond Pure Sebbe 2011(47th) Play She Monkeys Simon and the Oaks 2012(48th) Eat Sleep Die Call Girl The Last Sentence 2013(49th) Waltz for Monica The Reunion Shed No Tears 2014(50th) Force Majeure Gentlemen A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 2015(51st) The Here After My Skinny Sister Drifters 2016(52nd) My Aunt in Sarajevo The 101-Year Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared Granny´s Dancing on the Table Girls Lost 2017(53rd) The Square Sami Blood Borg McEnroe The Nile Hilton Incident 2018(54th) Carl Javér Reconstructing Utøya Ali Abbasi Border Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén The Real Estate Gabriela Pichler Amateurs 2019(55th) Hugo Lilja and Pella Kågerman Aniara Levan AkinAnd Then We Danced Roy Andersson About Endlessness Jon Holmberg 2020(56th) Amanda Kernell Charter Nathan Grossman Greta Maria Bäck Psychosis in Stockholm Henrik Schyffert Spring Uje spring 2021(57th) Nathalie Álvarez Mesén Clara Sola Gorki Glaser-Müller Children of the Enemy Ninja Thyberg Pleasure Ronnie Sandahl Tigers
International presence 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
See also 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
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