Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Guldbagge for Best Documentary Feature is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to award documentary films in the Swedish motion picture industry.^[1]

Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature
Country	Sweden
Presented by	Swedish Film Institute
First awarded	2000 (for documentary films released during the 2000 film season)
Currently held by	Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring and Christina Tsiobanelis, Silvana (2017)
Website	guldbaggen.se

Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below, along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Documentary Feature and the director associated with the award. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best documentary feature.^[2]

Gunnar Bergdahl won the award in 2001 for Ljudmilas röst.

Stefan Jarl won the award in 2002 for The Bricklayer.

Nahid Persson Sarvestani won the award in 2005 for Prostitution Behind the Veil.

Malik Bendjelloul won the award in 2012 for Searching for Sugar Man.

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
2000 (36th)	Min mamma hade fjorton barn‡	Lars Lennart Forsberg
	Fyren	Kristian Petri, Jan Röed and Magnus Enquist
	Respect!	Susanna Edwards
2001 (37th)	Ljudmilas röst‡	Gunnar Bergdahl
	Låt dom andra sköta kärleken	Ruben Östlund
	Mormor, Hitler och jag	Carl Johan De Geer
2002 (38th)	The Bricklayer‡	Stefan Jarl
	Boogie Woogie Pappa	Erik Bäfving
	Gömd	David Aronowitsch, Hanna Heilborn and Mats Johansson
2003 (39th)	Du ska nog se att det går över‡	Cecilia Neant-Falk
	Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers	Erik Gandini
	Zonen	Esaias Baitel
2004 (40th)	Armwrestler from Solitude‡	Lisa Munthe and Helen Ahlsson
	The Baker	Kristina Meiton
	Gå loss	Magnus Gertten and Erik Bäfving
2005 (41st)	Prostitution Behind the Veil‡	Nahid Persson Sarvestani
	The Well	Kristian Petri
	The Kinch	Måns Månsson
2006 (42nd)	The Substitute‡	Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren
	Alice and Me	Rebecka Rasmusson
	I Remember Håkan Alexandersson	Carl Johan De Geer
2007 (43rd)	The Nun‡	Maud Nycander
	Aching Heart	Oscar Hedin
	Paradise	Jerzy Sladkowski
2008 (44th)	Maggie in Wonderland‡	Mark Hammarberg, Ester Martin Bergsmark and Beatrice Andersson	[3][4]
	Mr. Governor	Måns Månsson
	An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation	Patrik Eriksson
2009 (45th)	Ebbe - The Movie‡	Karin af Klintberg and Jane Magnusson	[5]
	The Queen and I	Nahid Persson Sarvestani
	Videocracy	Erik Gandini
2010 (46th)	Regretters‡	Marcus Lindeen	[6]
	Kiss Bill	Emelie Wallgren and Ina Holmqvist
	Familia	Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits
2011 (47th)	At Night I Fly‡	Michel Wenzer	[7]
	Stora scenen	Tova Mozard
	The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975	Göran Olsson
2012 (48th)	Searching for Sugar Man‡	Malik Bendjelloul	[8][9]
	Palme	Maud Nycander and Kristina Lindström
	Pojktanten	Ester Martin Bergsmark
2013 (49th)	Belleville Baby‡	Mia Engberg	[10][11]
	Forest of the Dancing Spirits	Linda Västrik
	No Burqas Behind Bars	Nima Sarvestani
2014 (50th)	Concerning Violence‡	Göran Olsson	[12][13]
	Apt. + Car + All I Have and Own	Clara Bodén
	Ute på landet	Anders Jedenfors
2015 (51st)	Detained‡	Anna Persson and Shaon Chakraborty	[14][15]
	Every Face Has a Name	Magnus Gertten
	Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words	Stig Björkman
2016 (52nd)	Martha & Niki‡	Tora Mkandawire Mårtens	[16][17]
	Don Juan	Jerzy Sladkowski
	MonaLisa Story	Jessica Nettelbladt
2017 (53rd)	Silvana‡	Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring and Christina Tsiobanelis	[18][19]
	Letters to a Serial Killer	Manal Masri
	The Celestial Darkroom	Nils Petter Löfstedt
2018 (54th)	Reconstructing Utøya‡	Carl Javér	[20][21]
	The Raft	Marcus Lindeen
	The Deminer	Hogir Hirori
2019 (55th)	Transnistra‡	Anna Eborn	[22][23]
	Fraemling	Mikel Cee Karlsson
	Josefin & Florin	Ellen Fiske and Joanna Karlberg
2020 (56th)	Greta‡	Nathan Grossman	[24][25]
	Idomeni	David Aronowitsch
	Scheme Birds	Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin

Documentary films in other categories

Before the introduction of the award at the 36th Guldbagge Awards, documentaries were qualified for the categories of Best Film, and Best Shortfilm. The following films won the categories they were nominated in.

Best Film

Main article: Guldbagge Award for Best Film

Roy Andersson (top), Bo Widerberg (bottom) co-won the award in 1968/69 for The White Game.

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
1968/69 (6th)	The White Game‡	Grupp 13[a]	[26]
1978/79 (15th)	A Respectable Life‡	Stefan Jarl	[27]
1984 (20th)	Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain‡	Agneta Elers-Jarleman	[28]
1988 (24th)	Back to Ararat‡	Jim Downing, Göran Gunér, Per-Åke Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian	[29]
1994 (30th)	A Pizza in Jordbro‡	Rainer Hartleb	[30]

Best Shortfilm

Year	Film	Director(s)	Ref.
1996 (32nd)	I skuggan av solen‡	Susanna Edwards	[31]
1998 (34th)	Aligermaas eventyr‡	Andra Lasmanis	[32]
2000 (36th)	Del av den värld som är din‡	Karin Wegsjö	[33]

See also

• BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature

Notes

1. Grupp 13 is a film collective consisting of Roy Andersson, Kalle Boman, Lena Ewert, Sven Fahlén, Staffan Hedqvist, Axel Rudorf-Lohmann, Lennart Malmer, Björn Öberg, Jörgen Persson, Ingela Romare, Inge Roos, Rudi Spee and Bo Widerberg.

References

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10. Svenska Filminstitutet (January 3, 2014). "Nominerade". guldbaggen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
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15. Norman, Isabel; Nykänen, Joni (January 18, 2016). "Glädjevrålet på Guldbaggegalan". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved January 19, 2016.
16. Anderberg, Carl Adam. "Nominerade" (in Swedish). Moviezine. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
17. Folcker, Sebastian (January 23, 2017). "De blev årets vinnare". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved January 23, 2017.
18. Haimi, Rebecca (January 4, 2018). "Flest nomineringar till Borg – Östlund: "Det känns okej"". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
19. Pettersson, Leo (January 22, 2018). "Glädjetårar efter Sameblods succé". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved January 22, 2018.
20. "De är nominerade till Guldbaggen 2019". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
21. Lundin, Caroline; Hill, Siri (28 January 2019). "Guldbaggegalan – här är alla vinnare". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
22. "Nominerade 2020" (in Swedish). Guldbaggen.se. January 8, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
23. Lundin, Caroline; Hill, Siri (28 January 2019). "Guldbaggegalan – här är alla vinnare". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 28 January 2019.
24. "2020 års Guldbaggenomineringar!". Guldbaggen.se. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
25. Adelai, Amina; Farran-Lee, Lydia (25 January 2021). "Charter och Spring Uje spring tog hem de tunga priserna". SVT (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 January 2021.
26. "Den vita sporten (1968)". The Swedish Film Database.
27. "Ett anständigt liv (1979)". The Swedish Film Database.
28. "Smärtgränsen (1983)". The Swedish Film Database.
29. "Tillbaka till Ararat (1988)". The Swedish Film Database.
30. "En pizza i Jordbro (1994)". The Swedish Film Database.
31. "I skuggan av solen (1996)". The Swedish Film Database.
32. "Aligermaas eventyr (1998)". The Swedish Film Database.
33. "Del av den värld som är din (2000)". The Swedish Film Database.

External links

• Official website (in English)
• Official website (in Swedish)
• Guldbagge Awards at IMDb