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AWARDS Sweden

The Giant and The Yard take three Guldbagges each

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- Along with three other local titles, Johannes Nyholm and Måns Månsson bagged the lion’s share of Sweden’s national film prizes at yesterday’s gala ceremony

The Giant and The Yard take three Guldbagges each
Johannes Nyholm with his Guldbagge for Best Original Screenplay for The Giant

Swedish director Johannes Nyholm’s feature debut, The Giant [+see also:
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, which has already won top prizes at San Sebastián and Warsaw, and his fellow countryman Måns Månsson’s The Yard [+see also:
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both collected three Guldbagges – Sweden’s national film prize – when the Swedish Film Institute presented the 2017 winners last night (23 January) at a gala ceremony at Stockholm’s Cirkus, hosted by Swedish actress-comedian-TV presenter Petra Mede, and aired by national pubcaster SVT.

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The Giant won for Best Feature, Best Original Screenplay and Best Make-up, while The Yard took the prizes for Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Design. Pernilla August’s A Serious Game [+see also:
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interview: Karin Franz Körlof
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, Goran Kapetanovic’s My Aunt in Sarajevo and Tora Mkandawire Mårtens' Martha & Niki all left with two statuettes, including Best Documentary for the latter.

Here is the full list of the winners of the 2017 Swedish Guldbagge Awards:

Best Feature
The Giant [+see also:
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- Johannes Nyholm (Sweden/Denmark)

Best Director
Goran Kapetanovic - My Aunt in Sarajevo (Sweden)

Best Actress
Maria Sundbom - The Girl, the Mother and the Demons [+see also:
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(Sweden)

Best Actor
Anders Mossling - The Yard [+see also:
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(Sweden)

Best Supporting Actress
Sadžida Šetić - My Aunt in Sarajevo

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Nyqvist - A Serious Game [+see also:
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interview: Karin Franz Körlof
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]
(Sweden/Denmark/Norway)

Best Original Screenplay
Johannes Nyholm - The Giant

Best Cinematography
Ita Zbroniec-Zajt - The Yard

Best Editing
Tora Mkandawire Mårtens, Therese Elfström – Martha & Niki (Sweden)

Best Costume Design
Kicki Ilander - A Serious Game

Best Sound Design
Patrik Strömdahl - The Yard

Best Make-up
Eva von Bahr, Love Larson, Pia Aleborg - The Giant

Best Musical Score
Jan Sandström - The Garbage Helicopter (Sweden/Qatar)

Best Set Design
Liv Ask, Bengt Fröderberg - My Future Love [+see also:
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(Sweden)

Best Visual Effects
Fredrik Nord - The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared [+see also:
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(Sweden)

Best Foreign Feature
Son of Saul [+see also:
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Q&A: László Nemes
interview: László Rajk
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]
- László Nemes (Hungary)

Best Documentary
Martha & Niki - Tora Mkandawire Mårtens

Best Short
6A - Peter Modestij (Sweden)

Newcomer of the Year
Ahang Bashi – Fragility (Sweden)

Honorary Guldbagge
Producer Katinka Faragó

The Gullspira
Writer-director-producer Petter Lennstrand

Guldbagge Audience Award
The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared – Felix Herngren, Måns Herngren

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