The film was Sweden 's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards . On 27 January 2004 , it was announced that it had been selected as one of the five nominees . Jan Guillou was unable to attend the Awards , since he did not receive a ticket . At the Swedish Guldbagge Awards it was nominated in seven categories , of which it won three : Best Film , Best Cinematography and Best Production Design . The categories where it did not win were Best Direction , Best Screenplay , Andreas Wilson as Best Actor and Gustaf Skarsgård as Best Supporting Actor
76th Academy Awards
76th Academy Awards
Evil (2003 film)