Lamb Leads 2022 Edda Awards Nominees

Lamb (Dýrið), directed by Valdimar Jóhansson, leads the field with thirteen nominations as the Icelandic Film & TV Academy reveals its nominees for the 2022 Edda Awards, which has celebrated outstanding achievements in film and television since 1999.

Lamb follows childless couple María (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) who live on a remote sheep farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their farmland, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own, but while their new family brings them much joy, it ultimately destroys them as they face the consequences of defying the will of nature.

Meanwhile, with eight nominations is Wolka, about a woman who breaks parole after serving fifteen years for murder and sacrifices everything to make a journey to Iceland, and with with seven nominations is Cop Secret (Leynilögga), in which a tough supercop fights his inner demons while investigating a string of bank robberies where nothing seems to have been stolen.

However, fierce competition also comes from two TV dramas which have earned ten nominations each: Katla, in which the eruption of subglacial volcano turns a community upside down as mysteries begin to emerge from the ice, and Sisterhood (Systrabönd), about three friends who must face the horror of their past when the body of a teenager is discovered who went missing twenty-five years ago.

The 2022 Edda Awards will take place in Reykjavik on 18th September. Here are the nominees…

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BEST FILM:
Lamb (Dýrið)
Cop Secret (Leynilögga)
Wolka

BEST TV DRAMA:
Katla
Sisterhood (Systrabönd)
Journey (Vegferð)

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Are You Icelandic?
Raise the Bar (Hækkum rána)
Apausalypse

BEST DIRECTOR:
Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson – Wolka
Hannes Þór Halldórsson – Cop Secret
Óskar Þór Axelsson & Þóra Hilmarsdóttir – Stella Blómkvist II
Silja Hauksdóttir – Sisterhood
Valdimar Jóhannsson – Lamb

BEST ACTOR:
Björn Thors – Katla
Egill Einarsson – Cop Secret
Hilmir Snær Guðnason – Lamb
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson – Journey
Víkingur Kristjánsson – Journey

BEST ACTRESS:
Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir – Sisterhood
Íris Tanja Flygenring – Katla
Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir – Sisterhood
Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir – Sisterhood
Olga Boladz – Wolka

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – Lamb
Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – Cop Secret
Hlynur Atli Harðarson – Katla
Jónas Björn Guðmundsson – Come to Harm (Harmur)
Sveinn Geirsson – Sisterhood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Anna Moskal – Wolka
Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir – Sisterhood
María Heba Þorkelsdóttir – Sisterhood
Sólveig Arnarsdóttir – Katla
Vivian Ólafsdóttir – Cop Secret

BEST SCRIPT:
Jóhann Ævar Grímsson, Jónas Margeir Ingólfsson, Snjólaug Lúðvíksdóttir & Dóra Jóhannsdóttir – Stella Blómkvist II
Jóhann Ævar Grímsson, Silja Hauksdóttir, Björg Magnúsdóttir & Jóhanna Friðrika Sæmundsdóttir – Sisterhood
Nína Petersen, Sverrir Þór Sverrisson & Hannes Þór Halldórsson – Cop Secret
Sigurður Pétursson & Einar Þór Gunnlaugsson – Fifteen Past Seven (Korter yfir sjö)
Valdimar Jóhannsson & Sjón – Lamb

BEST EDITING:
Agnieszka Glinska – Lamb
Guðni Hilmar Halldórsson & Hannes Þór Halldórsson – Cop Secret
Jakob Halldórsson – Raise the Bar
Mateusz Rybka PSM – Wolka
Valdís Óskarsdóttir & Marteinn Þórsson – Backyard Village (Þorpið í bakgarðinum)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Andri Haraldsson – Apausalypse
Anton Karl Kristensen – Come to Harm
Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson – Backyard Village
Eli Arenson – Lamb
Marek Rajca PSC – Wolka

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Lásló Rajk – Alma
Marta Luiza Macuga – Wolka
Rollin Hunt – Stella Blómkvist II
Snorri Freyr Hilmarsson – Lamb
Sunneva Ása Weisshappel – Katla

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS:
Frederik Nord & Peter Hjorth – Lamb
Monopix, ShortCut, NetFx & Davíð Jón Ögmundsson – Katla
Rob Tasker – Sisterhood

BEST SOUND DESIGN:
Björn Viktorsson – The Butterfly Swings (Lille Sommerfugl)
Huldar Freyr Arnarson – Katla
Ingvar Lundberg & Björn Viktorsson – Lamb

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Frank Hall – Stella Blómkvist II
Högni Egilsson – Katla
Jófríður Ákadóttir – Backyard Village
Sunna Gunnlaugsdóttir – Iceland: filmland (Ísland: bíóland)
Þórarinn Guðnason – Lamb

BEST WARDROBE:
Brynja Skjaldardóttir – Wolka
Margrét Einarsdóttir – Lamb
Margrét Einarsdóttir – The Butterfly Swings

BEST MAKE-UP:
Guðbjörg Huldís Kristinsdóttir – Entrapped (Ófærð 3)
Kristín Júlla Kristjánsdóttir fyrir Lamb
Ragna Fossberg fyrir Katla