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Strong on home lava, Volcano takes five Eddas

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Already on the way to becoming Iceland’s most awarded film, Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s feature debut, Volcano [+see also:
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(2011), added five Eddas – Iceland’s national film prize – to the collection, when the Icelandic Film & TV Academy Saturday (February 18) gave its verdict on last year’s film and TV production.

Having already received the Golden Puffin – the international FIPRESCI critics, the Church of Iceland Award – at last year’s Reykjavik International Film Festival, it picked up five top prizes at the televised ceremony in Reykjavik’s Gamla Bíó: Best Feature, Director, Original Screenplay (all Rúnarsson) as well as the Best Acting awards (Theodór Júlíusson, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir).

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An Icelandic-Danish co-production, by local Zik Zak Filmworks production with Denmark’s Fine & Mellow Productions A/S and support from the New Danish Screen talent pool, Volcano is the story of an elderly man, who has worked all his life as janitor at a public school. Now he is facing retirement, and he doesn’t like what he sees.

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson’s drama-comedy, Either Way [+see also:
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, about two road workers spending the whole summer on their own painting lines on the winding roads stretching into the horizon, left with three Eddas. This year’s Live Achievement Award went to director-cinematographer Vilhjálmur Knudsen, also of volcano fame – he shot the award-winning Fire on Heimaey, about the 1974 eruption.

Full list of the 2012 Edda Awards

Best Feature:
Volcano - Rúnar Rúnarsson

Best Director:
Rúnar Rúnarsson - Volcano

Best Original Screenplay:
Rúnar Rúnarsson - Volcano

Best Actress:
Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir - Volcano

Best Actor:
Theodór Júlíusson - Volcano

Best Supporting Actress:
María Heba ThorkelsdóttirOur Own Oslo

Best Supporting Role:
Thorsteinn Bachmann - Either Way

Best Cinematography:
Árni FilippussonEither Way

Best Editing:
Elísabet RonaldsdóttirLegends of Valhalla: Thor [+see also:
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Best Set Design:
Gunnar KarlssonLegends of Valhalla: Thor

Best Costume Design:

Margrét EinarsdóttirEither Way
Best Make-Up:
Ragna FossbergThe New Year’s comedy/TV

Best Musical Score:
Hilmar Örn HilmarssonLast Day of the Arctic

Best Sound Design:
Gunnar ÁrnasonCity State [+see also:
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Best Children’s Film:
The Magic Wardrobe - Bragi Hinriksson

Best Documentary:
Last Day of the Arctic - Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson

Best Short Film:
Come to Harm - Börkur Sigthórsson

Best TV Drama:
The Press 2Óskar Jónasson

Best TV Entertainment Programme:
Áramótamót Hljómskálans (music)

Television Personality of the Year:
Jóhannes Kr Kristjánsson

Best Culture/Lifestyle Programme:
Hljómskálinn (music)

Best News and Interview Programmer:
Landinn Magazine

Lifetime Achievement Edda:
Cinematographer Vilhjálmur Knudsen

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