40th Guldbagge Awards
Date	24 January 2005
Site	Chinateatern, Stockholm^[1]
Hosted by	Björn Kjellman^[1]
Highlights
Best Picture	Dalecarlians
Most awards	Four Shades of Brown (4)
Most nominations	Four Shades of Brown & As It Is in Heaven (8)
Television coverage
Network	SVT
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The 40th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, honored the best Swedish films of 2004, and took place on 24 January 2005. Dalecarlians directed by Maria Blom was presented with the award for Best Film.^[2]

Winner and nominees

Awards

Best Film Dalecarlians – Lars Jönsson Four Shades of Brown – Caisa Westling As It Is in Heaven – Anders Birkeland and Göran Lindström	Best Director Tomas Alfredson – Four Shades of Brown Maria Blom – Dalecarlians Kay Pollak – As It Is in Heaven
Best Actress in a leading role Maria Kulle – Four Shades of Brown Sofia Helin – Dalecarlians Frida Hallgren – As It Is in Heaven	Best Actor in a leading role Robert Gustafsson – Four Shades of Brown Johan Rheborg – Four Shades of Brown Michael Nyqvist – As It Is in Heaven
Best Supporting Actress Kajsa Ernst – Dalecarlians Ann Petrén – Dalecarlians Ingela Olsson – As It Is in Heaven	Best Supporting Actor Ulf Brunnberg – Four Shades of Brown Joakim Lindblad – Dalecarlians Lennart Jähkel – As It Is in Heaven
Best Screenplay Maria Blom – Dalecarlians Tomas Alfredson, Robert Gustafsson, Jonas Inde, Andres Lokko, Martin Luuk, Johan Rheborg and Henrik Schyffert – Four Shades of Brown Kay Pollak, Carin Pollak and Margaretha Pollak – As It Is in Heaven	Best Cinematography Jens Fischer – The Queen of Sheba's Pearls Leif Benjour – Four Shades of Brown Harald Gunnar Paalgard – As It Is in Heaven
Best Documentary Feature Armwrestler from Solitude – Lisa Munthe and Helen Ahlsson The Baker – Kristina Meiton Gå loss – Magnus Gertten och Erik Bäfving	Best Shortfilm Glenn, the Great Runner – Anna Erlandsson Fragile – Jens Jonsson Terrible Boy – Johan Jonason
Best Achievement Lasse Liljeholm and Eddie Axberg, for the sound in The Queen of Sheba's Pearls Sofia Lindgren, for the editing in The Ketchup Effect	Best Foreign Film The Return – Andrey Zvyagintsev 21 Grams – Alejandro González Iñárritu Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
Honorary Award Sickan Carlsson, actress and singer	The Ingmar Bergman Award Mikael Persbrandt