WRITTEN BY: Aleksander Huser
Requiem for Selina won the awards for Best Drama Series and Best Actress/Actor, while Max’ police sitcom Cops also took two main awards. Previous to the ceremony, NRK’s influencer drama received two Gullruten Industry Awards.
On Friday May 9, Norway’s annual TV awards Gullruten Awards took place in Grieghallen in Bergen, aired by the commercial national broadcaster TV 2.
The award for Best Drama Series went to public broadcaster NRK’s Requiem for Selina (Rekviem for Selina), as well as Elli Müller Osborne winning the award for Best Lead Actress/Actor in the drama category for her role as the series’ young protagonist. (Gullruten’s acting categories include both male and female nominations.)
Inspired by the stories of Scandinavia’s first and most famous influencers, the edgy and satirical miniseries portrays how 17 year old Selina (Osborne) in the early 2000s seeks to escape a life as a bullied “nobody” at her rural high school through an internet blog, and her following journey to become the country’s most famous influencer and perhaps most dangerous role model under the alter ego Celina Isabelle.
Requiem for Selina had its international premiere at Series Mania in March, where it received the Student Jury Prize in the International Panorama section. The series of six episodes is created by Emmeline Berglund and directed by Rikke Gregersen and Ole Sebastian Kåss. It is produced by ANTI for NRK and has top financing from Nordisk Film & Tv Fond.
The prize for Best Comedy Drama Series was awarded the police sitcom Cops (Bausjen).
Mari Hauge Einbu won the Best Actress/Actor award in the comedy category, also for Cops.
The eight-episode Max Original series is created by Torjus Tveiten, Johannes Roaldsen Fürst, Jørgen Evensen, Eirik Hvattum Bjørnstad, and Julian Hagemann, and produced by Monster for TVNorge and Max.
Moving on to the Best Supporting Actor/Actress in the drama category, the winner was Jakob Oftebro for his role in the series Kids in Crime 2, directed and created by Kenneth Karlstad and produced by Einar Film Drama for TV2.
The Gullruten Award for Best Documentary went to The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Ibelin), directed by Benjamin Ree and produced by Medieoperatørene for Netflix and VGTV.
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin has won several awards after it premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival last year, where it took home both the Directing Award and the Audience Award. Among the feature doc’s other trophies are the Young Audience Award at the European Film Awards and the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary at Göteborg Film Festival 2024.
NRK’s Leo og de farlige (“Leo and the Dangerous Ones”) won the award for Best Documentary Series. The series is produced by Novemberfilm for the pubcaster, and hosted by popular infotainment profile Leo Ajkic – who also won the award for Best Presenter.
Returning to Requiem for Selina, the series won two additional prizes when the Gullruten Fagprisen (Gullruten Industry Awards) were handed out prior to the main Gullruten Awards, on April 28. It received the Fagprisen awards for Best Directing – Drama, and Best Makeup.
The drama series Kids in Crime 2 and State of Happiness (Lykkeland) won two Fagprisen awards each as well: Kids in Crime 2 for Best Screenplay – Drama, and Best Props; State of Happiness for Best Sound Design and Best Production Design.
Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen’s feature doc A New Kind of Wilderness (Ukjent landskap), which won the prestigious Grand Jury Prize for best film in the Sundance festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition last year, also received two Fagprisen awards, for Best Editing – Documentary, and Best Original Score. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin got the Fagprisen award for Best Directing – Documentary.
For the full list of all Gullruten nominees and winners: CLICK HERE (Norwegian).
For the full list of all Fagprisen nominees and winners: CLICK HERE (Norwegian).
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