Goddammit!: Systad Jacobsen’s first feature wins for Best Film in Norway
- Oslo-based production company, Motlys, collected six Amandas – Norway’s national film awards – including Best Feature
Norwegian features from Oslo-based production company Motlys AS, headed by Norwegian producer Sigve Endresen, received six Amandas – Norway’s national film prizes – at the awards ceremony on Friday (August 17) prior to the Norwegian International Film Festival at Haugesund’s Festiviteten Hall.
Two were awarded for Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s Turn Me On, Goddammit! [+see also:
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Pål Sletaune’s psychological thriller, Babycall [+see also:
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FULL LIST OF AMANDA AWARDS 2012
Best Feature: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s Turn Me On, Goddammit! Prods: Brede Hovland, Sigve Endresen for Motlys.
The People’s Amanda (VG Daily readers’ vote): Morten Tyldum's Headhunters [+see also:
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Best Children’s Film: Anders Øvergaard’s Coming Home [+see also:
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Best Director: Joachim Trier, for Oslo, August 31st
Best Actress: Noomi Rapace, for Pål Sletaune's Babycall
Best Actor: Kristoffer Joner, for Stian Kristiansen's The Orheim Company
Best Supporting Actress: Cecilie A. Mosli, for The Orheim Company
Best Supporting Actor: Jon Øigarden, for Alexander Eik's Varg Veum – At Night All Wolves Are Grey
Best Original Screenplay: Pål Sletaune, for Babycall
Best Cinematography: Marianne Bakke, for Turn Me On, Goddammit!
Best Production Design: Roger Rosenberg, for Babycall
Best Visual Effects: Eirik Aanonsen, Christer Engström, for Even G. Benestad's Pushwagner
Best Musical Score: Peder Kjellsby, for Erik Richter Strand's The Dead Have It Easy
Best Editing: Olivier Bugge Coutté, for Oslo, August 31st
Best Sound Design: Tormod Ringnes, Christian Schaanning for Babycall
Best Short: Izer Aliu's To Guard a Mountain. Prod: Elisabeth Kvithyll, for the Norwegian National Film School
Best Documentary: Øyvind Sandberg's Folk ved fjorden
Best Foreign Feature: Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (USA). Local distr: SF Norge AS
Honorary Amanda: Norwegian actor Joachim Calmeyer
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