by Nathaniel R
Guldbagge Awards
Sweden's premiere movie awards, the Guldbagges, have been handed out. Though Sweden had chosen the sports drama Tigers to represent them in the current Oscar race instead, the Costa-Rican coproduction Clara Sola emerged as the big winner while Tigers went home empty-handed. (Clara Sola was an Oscar submission from Costa Rica but neither of those films made the current Oscar finals) The porn-themed festival hit Pleasure (still unreleased in the US, NEON has distribution rights) also did well at the Guldbagges. The nominations and winners are after the jump...
BEST FILM:
★ Clara Sola - a sexual awakening drama
The Emigrants - a remake of the 1970s Oscar nominated classic
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World - a documentary about the boy in 1971's A Death in Venice who is now an old man
Pleasure - a drama about a young woman who wants to become a porn star
Tigers - based on the memoirs of a teenage soccer star who abandoned a star athlete career to focus on his own mental health
Clara Sola
BEST DIRECTOR:
★ Nathalie Álvarez -Clara Sola
Gorki Glaser-Müller -Children of the Enemy
Ronnie Sandahl -Tigers
Ninja Thyberg -Pleasure
BEST SCRIPT:
★ Clara Sola
Suedi
Sabaya
The Ape Star
The Ape Star is eligible at the Oscars for Best Animated Feature and currently streaming on Netflix.
Jonas Karlsson in "A Christmas Tale"
BEST ACTOR:
Mustapha Aarab -JJ+E
Erik Enge -Tigers
★ Jonas Karlsson -A Christmas Tale
Gustaf Skarsgård -The Emigrants
Swedish cinema was apparently all about remakes this year. The Emigrants was a remake, A Christmas Tale is a live-action remake of a famous animated film in Sweden, and JJ+E is also a remake.
Jonay Pineda Skallak in "JJ+E"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Filip Berg for Sagan -A Christmas Tale
Daniel Castañeda Rincón -Clara Sola
Magnus Krepper -JJ+E
★ Jonay Pineda Skallak -JJ+E
For those who are curious, JJ+E, which is a remake of a 1996 Swedish film about an interracial teenage romance, is streaming on Netflix. Magnus Krepper plays the girl E's father and the winner, Jonay Skallak, plays the boy JJ's best friend.
Sofia Kappel in "Pleasure"
BEST ACTRESS:
Lisa Carlehed -The Emigrants
Wendy Chinchilla Araya -Clara Sola
★ Sofia Kappel -Pleasure
Cecilia Milocco -Knocking
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Sofia Helin -The Emigrants
Liv Mjönes -Tigers
Carla Sehn -A Christmas Tale
★ Jennie Silfverhjelm -A Christmas Tale
BEST EDITING:
Clara Sola
Pleasure
★ The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Kören – en film om Tensta Gospel Choir
Tigers
★ Clara Sola
BEST SOUND DESIGN:
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Knocking
★ Clara Sola
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
★ Children of the Enemy
The Emigrants
Children of the Enemy is a documentary about a man's attempt to rescue his seven orphaned grandchildren in Syria
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
★ The Emigrants
A Christmas Tale
Clara Sola
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
The Emigrants
A Christmas Tale
★ Pleasure
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Knocking
★ A Christmas Tale
Pleasure
BEST MAKE-UP:
A Christmas Tale
Red Dot
★ Pleasure
"Sabaya"
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Children of the Enemy
Lena
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
★ Sabaya
Though The Most Beautiful Boy was nominated for Best Film, it lost its own Documentary Feature category. Awards season in all countries is filled with peculiar turns like that. Sabaya, like Children of the Enemy, deals with the ongoing trauma of Syria's civil war, this time focusing on women being held by ISIS as sex slaves. Lena is about the famous Swedish actress Lena Nyman (I Am Curious Yellow and Autumn Sonata)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
The Father (UK)
★ Flee (Denmark)
Nomadland (US)