Berlin -- “Everlasting Moments,” Jan Troell’s period piece about social change in Sweden in the early 1900s, has swept the Guldbagge Awards, Sweden’s top film honors, taking five statuettes, including best film, best actor (Mikael Persbrandt) and best actress (Maria Heiskanen).
Troell’s film has also made the nomination short list for this year’s Foreign Language Oscars and garnered a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Language Film.
To top it all off, “Everlasting Moments” won the Goteborg Film Prize, an audience award presented ahead of Sweden’s top international film festival, which kicks off Jan.23.
The Guldbagge best director nod went to Troell compatriot Tomas Alfredson for his vampire thriller “Let The Right One In,” which also picked up best screenplay for writer John Ajvide Lindqvist and best cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema.
The Guldbagge for best documentary went to Beatrice Maggie Andersson’s “Maggie in Wonderland” about a Kenyan immigrant living in Sweden.
Troell’s film has also made the nomination short list for this year’s Foreign Language Oscars and garnered a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Language Film.
To top it all off, “Everlasting Moments” won the Goteborg Film Prize, an audience award presented ahead of Sweden’s top international film festival, which kicks off Jan.23.
The Guldbagge best director nod went to Troell compatriot Tomas Alfredson for his vampire thriller “Let The Right One In,” which also picked up best screenplay for writer John Ajvide Lindqvist and best cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema.
The Guldbagge for best documentary went to Beatrice Maggie Andersson’s “Maggie in Wonderland” about a Kenyan immigrant living in Sweden.
- 1/14/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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