Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award (Guldbaggen) is the official Swedish film award, awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.

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Swedish - Film - Award

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The name of the award is a play on the Swedish word "skalbagge", which means "Beetle". The compound part "skal", (meaning "carapace" or "shell"), has in the name "Guldbagge" been changed into "guld" ("gold"), giving the award a name that could be roughly translated into "Gold-Beetle".

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Swedish - Beetle - Compound - Carapace - Shell

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The award is given out to the best film-related efforts in the following categories:

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• Picture
• Directing
• Screenplay
• Cinematography
• Actress in a leading role
• Actor in a leading role
• Supporting actress in a leading role
• Supporting actor in a leading role
• Foreign picture (In which the country of production, and not the language of the film - in contrast to nominations for the North American Academy Award - is what makes the film a potential nominee)
• Short film
• Documentary

The prize itself, a small statue in the shape of a beetle, is made in male and female versions. The male beetles are equipped with a small penis on the underside. The female beetles do not have a penis, nor do they have any other form of gender-specific anatomy.

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An inscription of the name of the award's winner, and the category in question, is glued to the underside of the beetle. Every beetle is created individually by the artist Karl-Axel Pehrson, the original designer.

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