27/01/2015 - Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure received six Guldbagge Awards – Sweden’s national film prize – at the Stockholm Cirkus gala

Ruben Östlund collects one of his six Guldbagge Awards (© Leif R Jansson/Scanpix)

Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure [+see also:
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Östlund cashed in on over half of his ten nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography; Mikael Marcimain’s Gentlemen [+see also:
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Norwegian actress-director Liv Ullmann, who was last week presented with the Honorary Dragon Award at the Göteborg International Film Festival (see the news), was the recipient of this year’s Swedish Lifetime Achievement Award. Ullmann, who starred in ten Ingmar Bergman films and directed two (Private Confessions in 1996 and Faithless in 2000), has most recently adapted August Strindberg’s Miss Julie [+see also:
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Full list of Swedish Guldbagge 2015 winners

Best Film: Force Majeure, prods: Erik Hemmendorff, Marie Kjellson and Philippe Bober

Best Director: Ruben Östlund, for Force Majeure

Best Actress: Saga Becker, for Something Must Break [+see also:
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Best Actor: Sverrir Gudnason, for Blowfly Park [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actress: Anita Wall, for Home [+see also:
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Best Supporting Actor: Kristofer Hivju, for Force Majeure

Best Screenplay: Ruben Östlund, for Force Majeure

Best Cinematography: Fredrik Wenzel, for Force Majeure

Best Editing: Jacob Secher Schulsinger and Ruben Östlund, for Force Majeure

Best Costume Design: Cilla Rörby, for Gentlemen, dir: Mikael Marcimain

Best Sound Design: Andreas Franck, for The Quiet Roar [+see also:
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Best Make-up: Anna-Carin Lock and Anja Dahl, for Gentlemen

Best Musical Score: Mattias Bärjed and Jonas Kullhammar, for Gentlemen

Best Set Design: Ulf Jonsson, Nicklas Nilsson, Sandra Parment, Isabel Sjöstrand and Julia Tegström, for A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, dir: Roy Andersson

Best Foreign-language Feature: Two Days, One Night [+see also:
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Best Short: Still Born, dir: Åsa Sandzén

Best Documentary: Concerning Violence [+see also:
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Best Achievement: Mats Holmgren

Lifetime Achievement Award: Liv Ullmann

The Gullspira: Rose-Marie Strand, of Folkets Bio

Audience Award: Last Chance/Micke & Veronica, prod: Lena Rehnberg