2013 EDDA Awards Nominations

Today the Icelandic Film & TV Academy announced this year nominations. As expected by me, Baltasar Kormákur's The Deep leads with 16 nominations followed closely by Óskar Þór Axelsson's Black's Game with 15 nods. The Edda Awards 2013 ceremony takes place in Harpan on the 16th of February 2012 and will be broadcast live on Channel 2.

Best Film
Djúpið (The Deep), Baltasar Kormákur
Frost, Reynir Lyngdal
Svartur á leik (Black's Game), Óskar Þór Axelsson

Best Director
Baltasar Kormákur for Djúpið (The Deep
Grímur Hákonarson for Hreint Hjarta (A Pure Heart) (Documentary)
Óskar Jónasson, Pressa 3 (The Press 3)
Óskar Þór Axelsson for Svartur á leik (Black's Game)
Reynir Lyngdal, for Frost

Best Actress
Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir in Frost
Elin Petersdottir in Tähtitaivas talon yllä (Stars Above)
Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir in Pressa 3 (The Press 3)

Best Actor
Björn Thors in Frost
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Svartur á leik (Black's Game)
Kjartan Guðjónsson, Pressa 3 (The Press 3)
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Djúpið (The Deep)
Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson, Svartur á leik (Black's Game)

Best Screenplay
Jón Atli Jónasson and Baltasar Kormákur for Djúpið (The Deep)
Óli Jón Gunnarsson for Gunna
Jóhann Ævar Grímsson, Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, Óskar Jónasson and Sigurjón Kjartansson for Pressa 3 (The Press 3)
Óskar Þór Axelsson for Svartur á leik (Black's Game),
Ragnhildur Sverrisdóttir, Sölvi Tryggvason and Þór Jónsson for Sönn íslensk sakamál

Best Short Film
Brynhildur og Kjartan (In Sickness and in Health), Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir
Fórn (Sacrifice), Jakob Halldórsson
Sailcloth, Elfar Adalsteins

Best Documentary
Amma Lo-fi: Kjallaraspólur Sigríðar Níelsdóttur (Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur Níelsdóttir), Orri Jónsson, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir and Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Hrafnhildur - Heimildamynd um kynleiðréttingu (A Boy Like Her - A Personal Story About an Unavoidable Journey), Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
Hreint hjarta (A Pure Heart), Grímu Hákonarson
Íslensku björgunarsveitirnar (The Icelandic Rescue Teams), Magnús Vidar Sigurdsson
Sundið (Swim For Your Life), Jón Karl Helgason

To check nominees in all categories go here, available only in Icelandic.

2012 EDDA Awards Winners

Last Saturday the Icelandic Film & TV Academy had the awards ceremony where Rúnar Rúnarsson’s Volcano was the big winner. Here are the winners for the main categories.

Feature Film of the Year: Eldfjall (Volcano), Rúnar Rúnarsson
Director of the Year: Rúnar Rúnarsson for Eldfjall (Volcano)
Actress of the Year: Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir in Eldfjall (Volcano), Rúnar Rúnarsson
Actor of the Year: Theodór Júlíusson in Eldfjall (Volcano), Rúnar Rúnarsson

To check winners in all categories including television go here.

2011 EDDA Awards Winners

Yesterday the Academy had their awards ceremony and winners are in *BLUE. To read the full list of winners in English go here and for Icelandic please use the link at the bottom of the page.

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2/7/11
The Icelandic Film and Television Academy recently announced the nominations for annual EDDA Awards that honor films released during 2010 and these are the nominees for some categories.

Film of the Year
*Brim (Undercurrent), Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson
Órói (Jitters), Baldvin Zophoníasson
The Good Heart, Dagur Kári

Director of the Year
Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson for Brim (Undercurrent)
Baldvin Zophoníasson for Órói (Jitters)
Baltasar Kormákur for Inhale
*Dagur Kári for The Good Heart
Gunnar B. Guðmundsson for Gauragangur (Hullaballo)

Actress in a Leading Role
Hreindís Ylva Garðarsdóttir in Órói (Jitters), Baldvin Z
Jóhanna Vigdís Arnardóttir in Réttur 2 (Court 2nd) (TV)
Lauren Hennessy in Clean (Short)
*Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir in Brim (Undercurrent), Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson
Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir in Sumarlandið (Summerland), Grímur Hákonarson

Actor in a Leading Role
Atli Óskar Fjalarsson in Órói (Jitters), Baldvin Zophoníasson
Brian Cox in The Good Heart, Dagur Kári
*Ólafur Darri Ólafsson in Rokland (Stormland), Marteinn Thorsson
Ólafur Egill Ólafsson in Brim (Undercurrent), Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson
Pétur Jóhann Sigfússon in Hlemmavideo (TV)

To check nominees in all categories go for English here and for Icelandic here, which is the official site. Award ceremony will be on February 19 and will be broadcast live on Channel 2.

Found interesting the particularities that regulate these awards, especially finding that in the selection process the public votes even when it only counts for 20%; 80% is responsibility of Academy members. That’s true democracy as whoever wins also has the vote of audiences and maybe because this peculiarity “usually well over half of the entire population watches the show” on television. This is what Oscar needs to raise ratings, even if audience vote counts only like 5% -for example- and wouldn’t be fantastic IF World audiences could vote too? Check more information about the awards procedure here.

Another cinema that I enjoy and of course I’m looking forward to be able to watch Inhale by Baltasar Kormákur but also Summerland by Grímur Hákonarson seems interesting as nothing is better than (dark) Icelandic humor in a comedy about “an unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions”.