The ceremony was televised in the Sweden by SVT, with actress and comedian Babben Larsson hosting the show.

[1] Eat Sleep Die won four awards including Best Film and Best Director for Gabriela Pichler.

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 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).

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