The 2011 Guldbagge Awards (Sweden) - nominations

The Swedish Film Institute released the names of the nominees for the 2011 Guldbagge Awards. The Guldbagge ('Golden Beetle') Awards, which have been presented since 1964, are chosen by a jury of 34 members to honour the best in Swedish cinema.

The debut film Svinalängorna (Beyond) by Swedish actress Pernilla August leads with eight nominations including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress for Noomi Rapace (best known in North America as the star of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). August competes against Rapace in the Best Actress race, as she herself was nominated for her turn in Miss Kicki. She is also nominated in the Best Screenplay category as the co-writer of Beyond.

Also nominated for Best Film are I rymden finns inga känslor (Simple Simon) and Babak Najafi's  Sebbe which took the prize for Best Debut Feature at the Berlin Film Festival.  They received four and three nominations, respectively. Till det som är vackert (Pure) also received three nominations.

The nominees for Best Foreign Language Film are Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, Jessica Hausner's Lourdes, and The Social Network by David Fincher.

The Swedish Film Institute will announce the winners of the 2011 Guldbagge Awards on January 24 at a gala ceremony in Stockholm. Petra Mede will host the event.
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Complete nominations for the 2011 Guldbagge Awards

Best Film
I rymden finns inga känslor (Simple Simon)
Sebbe
Svinalängorna (Beyond)

Best Director
Pernilla August, Svinalängorna (Beyond)
Lisa Langseth, Till det som är vackert (Pure)
Babak Najafi, Sebbe

Best actress in a leading role
Pernilla August, Miss Kicki
Noomi Rapace, Svinalängorna (Beyond)
Alicia Vikander, Till det som är vackert (Pure)
 
Best actor in a leading role
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Sebbe
Joel Kinnaman, Snabba Cash (Easy Money)
Bill Skarsgård, I rymden finns inga känslor (Simple Simon)

Best actress in a supporting role
Tehilla Blad, Svinalängorna (Beyond)
Cecilia Forss, I rymden finns inga känslor (Simple Simon)
Outi Mäenpää,Svinalängorna (Beyond)
 
Best actor in a supporting role
Peter Dalle, Himlen är oskyldigt blå (Behind Blue Skies)
David Dencik, Cornelis 
Ville Virtanen, Svinalängorna (Beyond)

Best screenplay
Pernilla August and Lolita Ray, Svinalängorna (Beyond)
Lisa Langseth, Till det som är vackert (Pure)
Jonathan Sjöberg and Andreas Öhman, I rymden finns inga känslor (Simple Simon)

Best cinematography
 Göran Hallberg, Himlen är oskyldigt blå (Behind Blue Skies)
Erik Molberg Hansen, Svinalängorna (Beyond)
Aril Wretblad, Snabba Cash (Easy Money)

Best documentary
Familia, Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits
Så nära (Kiss Bill), Emelie Wallgren and Ina Holmqvist
Ångrarna (Regretters), Marcus Lindeen

Best short film 
Not Panic, Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Tord and Tord, Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Tussilago, Jonas Odell

Best Foreign Language Film
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold
Lourdes, Jessica Hausner
The Social Network, David Fincher