48th Guldbagge Awards

The 48th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2012 and took place January 21, 2013, at Cirkus in Stockholm. During the ceremony, the jury presented Guldbagge Awards (commonly referred to as Bagge) in 19 categories. The ceremony was televised in the Sweden by SVT, with actress and comedian Babben Larsson hosting the show.

Eat Sleep Die won four awards including Best Film and Best Director for Gabriela Pichler. Call Girl also won four awards, all in the technical categories. Other winners included Palme and Avalon with two awards each, and The Last Sentence, Searching for Sugar Man, Dance Music Now, Amour, Easy Money II: Hard to Kill and Isdraken with one.

The jury
Through discussions the jury appoints the winners of the Guldbagge Award among the three nominees in all price categories, except for the Honorary Award which is appointed directly by the Swedish Film Institute's board. The jury consisted this year of Jannike Åhlund (chairman), Anna Carlson, (actress and chairman of Teaterförbundet), Bengt Forslund (producer and writer), Anna Croneman (producer), Klaus Härö (director), Farnaz Arbabi (director and playwright), Matti Bye (musician and composer), Sylvia Ingemarsdotter (film editor) and Marcus Lindeen (director and playwright).

Winner and nominees
The nominees for the 48th Guldbagge Awards were announced on January 3, 2013, in Stockholm, by the Swedish Film Institute.

Films with the most nominations were Call Girl with eleven, followed by The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man with six. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on January 21, 2013.

Awards


Winners are listed first and highlighted in '''boldface.

Multiple nominations and awards
The following films received one or multiple nominations:
 * Eleven: Call Girl
 * Six: The Last Sentence and Searching for Sugar Man
 * Five: Eat Sleep Die
 * Four: Avalon and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
 * Three: Palme
 * Two: Bitchkram and Hamilton – I nationens intresse
 * One: Katinkas kalas, Lycka till och ta hand om varandra, Mammas pojkar, Pojktanten, El Médico – the Cubaton Story, Isdraken, Once Upon a Time in Phuket and Sune i Grekland - All inclusive

The following four films received multiple awards:
 * Four: Call Girl and Eat Sleep Die
 * Two: Palme and Avalon