Guldbagge Award for Best Director

Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for The Mozart Brothers (1986), Åsa Faringer for The Daughter of the Puma (1994), Ella Lemhagen for Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen (1999), Catti Edfeldt and Ylva Gustavsson for Kidz in da Hood (2006), Lisa Siwe for Glowing Stars (2009), Pernilla August for Beyond (2010), and Gabriela Pichler for Eat Sleep Die (2012).

Since 1991, when the nomination system was introduced with three nominees, the number of female directors has increased significantly, with a total of 22 women.

The first woman that got nominated was Susanne Bier for the film Freud's Leaving Home (1991).

For example, the 2nd Guldbagge Awards presented on October 15, 1965, recognized films that were released between July, 1964 and June, 1965.

[1][4] Starting with the 20th Guldbagge Awards, held in 1985, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Ingmar Bergman won two awards, the first for The Silence , and the second for Fanny and Alexander .
Alf Sjöberg won in 1965/66 for directing Ön .
Jan Troell won two awards in this category, for Here's Your Life and As White as in Snow , and was nominated for two: Everlasting Moments and The Last Sentence .
Bo Widerberg won two awards in this category, Ådalen 31 , and All Things Fair .
Tage Danielsson won in 1971/72 for directing The Apple War .
Hans Alfredsson won three awards in this category, Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story , The Simple-Minded Murderer , and False as Water .
Suzanne Osten won in 1986 for directing The Mozart Brothers .
Max von Sydow won in 1988 for directing Katinka .
Kjell Sundvall won in 1996 for directing The Hunters .
Ella Lemhagen won in 1999 for directing Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen .
Gabriela Pichler won in 2012 for directing Eat Sleep Die .
Ruben Östlund won three awards in this category, Play , Force Majeure , and The Square .