The film was the big winner at the 2003 Guldbagge Awards where it received prizes for Best Film , Best Direction , Best Screenplay , Akinshina as Best Actress and Best Cinematography . Bogucharsky was also nominated for Best Actor . It was nominated for Best Film and Best Actress at the European Film Awards . It was Sweden 's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards , which sparked some controversy when the Academy considered to deem it ineligible since the primary language is not Swedish . Eventually it was accepted , but failed to be nominated . In November 2009 the film magazine '' FLM '' published a list of the 10 best Swedish films of the decade as voted by 26 of the country 's leading critics . '' Lilya 4-ever '' appeared as number three on the list , surpassed only by '' Involuntary '' and '' Songs from the Second Floor ''
75th Academy Awards
75th Academy Awards
Lilya 4-ever