The Guldbagge for Best Director is a Swedish film award presented annually by the

Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svenska Filminstitutet) was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the ''Filmhuset'' building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm. The building, com ...

(SFI) as part of the

Guldbagge Awards The Guldbagge Awards ( sv, Guldbaggen, en, Gold scarab) is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the nam ...

(Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to directors working in the Swedish

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industry.

History

Throughout the past 50 years, SFI has presented a total of 50 Best Director awards to 40 different directors. Along with the categories

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, Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role, the award for Best director were one of the four original price categories which was presented at the first award ceremony in 1964. At the

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/ 1964),

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...

was awarded the first Guldbagge for his film '' The Silence''. Since then, the prize has been awarded every year, except in 1971 where the only prize for best film was awarded, and in 1980 where only the categories Best Film, Best Actor along with the

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. At both the

30th Guldbagge Awards The 30th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish 1994 in film, films of 1994, and took place on 30 January 1995. ''A Pizza in Jordbro'' directed by Rainer Hartleb was presented with the award f ...

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) and the

42nd Guldbagge Awards The 42nd Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2006, and took place on 22 January 2007. '' Kidz in da Hood'' directed by Ylva Gustavsson and Catti Edfeldt was presented with the aw ...

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), Best Director was presented to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director. The Guldbagge Awards for Best Director and

have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was

, whose film '' The Silence'' won the Best Film award at the first

. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, ''

The Here After ''The Here After'' ( sv, Efterskalv) is a 2015 Swedish drama film written and directed by Magnus von Horn. The film is a co-production between Sweden, Poland and France. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film ...

'' at the

51st Guldbagge Awards The 51st Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honoring the best Swedish 2015 in film, films of 2015, was held on 18 January 2016. Winners and nominees The nominees for the 51st Guldbagge Awards were announced on ...

(

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). The first woman who won the award for Best Director was

Marianne Ahrne Siv Marianne Ahrne (born 25 May 1940) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films between 1970 and 1997. Her 1976 film ''Near and Far Away'' won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Director at the 13t ...

, for the film ''

Near and Far Away ''Near and Far Away'' ( sv, Långt borta och nära) is a 1976 Swedish drama film directed by Marianne Ahrne. Ahrne won the award for Guldbagge Award for Best Director, Best Director at the 13th Guldbagge Awards. Cast * Lilga Kovanko as Mania * ...

'' (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director:

Suzanne Osten Carlota Suzanne Osten (born 20 June 1944) is a Swedish film director stage director and screenwriter. She won the award for Best Director at the 22nd Guldbagge Awards for the film '' The Mozart Brothers''. Biography Suzanne Osten was born i ...

for '' The Mozart Brothers'' (1986), Åsa Faringer for ''The Daughter of the Puma'' (1994),

Ella Lemhagen Ella Elisabet Lemhagen (born 29 August 1965 in Uppsala) is a Swedish film director and screenwriter. In 2012 she received the honorary award, ''Gullspira'', for her outstanding work in youth culture on the Guldbagge Award (the Swedish equivalen ...

for ''

Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen ''Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen'' is a Swedish film directed by Ella Lemhagen which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 1 October 1999, based on the books about Tsatsiki written by Moni Nilsson-Brännström. It won the 1999 Guldbagge Award for Be ...

'' (1999), Catti Edfeldt and Ylva Gustavsson for ''

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'' (2006),

Lisa Siwe Lisa Christina Siwe (; born 17 August 1968) is a Swedish director from Tynnered, Gothenburg. She studied directing at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm and graduated in 1999. As part of her studies there, Siwe directed the 30-minute short fi ...

for '' Glowing Stars'' (2009), Pernilla August for ''

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'' (2010), and Gabriela Pichler for '' Eat Sleep Die'' (2012). Since 1991, when the nomination system was introduced with three nominees, the number of female directors has increased significantly, with a total of 22 women. The first woman that got nominated was

Susanne Bier Susanne Bier (; born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker. She is best known for her feature films '' Brothers'' (2004), '' After the Wedding'' (2006), ''In a Better World'' (2010), and '' Bird Box'' (2018), and the TV miniseries ''The Night Man ...

for the film ''

Freud's Leaving Home ''Freud's Leaving Home'' ( sv, Freud flyttar hemifrån...) is a 1991 Swedish comedy film directed by Susanne Bier. The film won ten awards and was nominated for three. The film follows a girl, Freud, from a Jewish family in Sweden. It was the firs ...

'' (1991).

Winners and nominees

Each

ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Directing and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director, which are listed from 1991 and forward. For the first nineteen ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. For example, the 2nd Guldbagge Awards presented on October 15, 1965, recognized films that were released between July, 1964 and June, 1965. Starting with the 20th Guldbagge Awards, held in 1985, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. The Awards presented at that ceremony were in respect of 18 months of film production owing to the changeover from the broken calendar year to the standard calendar year during 1984. Due to a mediocre film year, no awards ceremony was held in 1971. Ingmar Bergman Smultronstallet

International presence

As the

are based in Sweden and are centered on the Swedish film industry, the majority of Guldbagge Award winners have been Swedish. Nonetheless, there is significant international presence at the awards, as evidenced by the following list of winners of the Guldbagge Award for Best Director. * Denmark:

Per Fly Per Fly Plejdrup (born 14 January 1960) is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He has made many films and television shows broadcast on Danish television. Per Fly's awards includes the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize ...

* Iceland:

Hrafn Gunnlaugsson Hrafn Gunnlaugsson (born 17 June 1948) is an Icelandic film director. He is the brother of mathematician Þorvaldur Gunnlaugsson and the lawyer Snædís Gunnlaugsdóttir and the actress Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir. He is mostly known for his series ...

* United Kingdom:

Colin Nutley Colin James Nutley (born 28 February 1944) is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry. Career Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama an ...

However, no director has won for a film that is entirely in a foreign language. Several international nominees include: * Denmark:

and

Bille August Bille August (born 9 November 1948) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer of film and television. In a career spanning over four decades, he has been the recipient of numerous accolades, making him one of the most acclaimed co ...

(nominated for 2 films) * Germany:

Rainer Hartleb Rainer Hartleb (born 29 February 1944 in Hildburghausen, Germany) is a German-Swedish director of documentary films. He is best known for the ''Jordbro'' suite, a series of films that follows a group of people from Jordbro from the age of seven, w ...

Notes and references

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History

Winners and nominees

International presence

Notes and references

See also

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