Other leading nominees include Simple Simon, Sebbe and Pure.

Swedish actress Pernilla August’s directorial debut Beyond has scooped 8 nominations for Sweden’s national film awards, the Guldbagge Awards, which will take place on Jan 24 in Stockholm.

Chosen by a jury of 34 members, the film tells the story of a grown-up daughter (played by TheGirl With The Dragon Tattoo actress Noomi Rapace) who is forced to confront her alcoholic mother. It premiered in Venice in 2010 where it won the audience award for best film in critics week, before going on to win the top prize at Nordic Film Days in Lubeck.

Also up for multiple awards is Andreas Öhman’s feature debut (and Sweden’s chosen Foreign Language Oscar contender) Simple Simon, which received 4 nominations; together with Babak Najafi’s Sebbe and Lisa Langseth’s Purewhich each picked up 3 nominations.

The nominations:

Best Film
Simple Simon
Sebbe
Beyond

Best Director
Pernilla August, Beyond
Lisa Langseth, Pure
Babak Najafi, Sebbe

Best actress in a leading role
Pernilla August, Miss Kicki
Noomi Rapace, Beyond
Alicia Vikander, Pure
   
Best actor in a leading role
Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Sebbe
Joel Kinnaman, Easy Money
Bill Skarsgård, Simple Simon
 
Best actress in a supporting role
Tehilla Blad, Beyond
Cecilia Forss, Simple Simon
Outi Mäenpää,Beyond
   
Best actor in a supporting role
Peter Dalle. Behind Blue Skies
David Dencik, Cornelis 
Ville Virtanen, Beyond
 
Best screenplay
Pernilla August and Lolita Ray. Beyond
Lisa Langseth, Pure
Jonathan Sjöberg and Andreas Öhman, Simple Simon
   
Best cinematography
Göran Hallberg, Behind Blue Skies
Erik Molberg Hansen, Beyond
Aril Wretblad, Easy Money

Best documentary
Familia, dir Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits
Kiss Bill, dir Emelie Wallgren and Ina Holmqvist
Regretters, dir Marcus Lindeen

Best short film
Not Panic, dir Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
Tord and Tord, dir Niki Lindroth von Bahr
Tussilago, dir Jonas Odell
 
Best Foreign Language Film
Fish Tank, dir Andrea Arnold
Lourdes, dir Jessica Hausner
The Social Network,dir David Fincher
 


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