Joakim Lundell wins Kristallen’s audience award for the seventh straight year

Joakim Lundell joked that he would try not to return next year after winning Kristallen’s audience award for Male TV Presenter of the Year for the seventh consecutive time.

Lundell also won the jury prize in the same category during the gala. His TV4 program “Spökjakt” received attention alongside SVT’s documentary “Hatet,” which critically examined Lundell and sparked considerable debate in the spring. Lundell had predicted that the documentary would not win, saying it had not received particularly strong reviews, but he welcomed its contribution to reaching a younger audience for SVT.

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I’ll try not to come here next year.

The tension between Lundell and “Hatet” journalist Bo-Göran Bodin became part of presenter Messiah Hallberg’s opening monologue. “I have many enemies in the audience, but none I have made a three-hour documentary about,” Hallberg said.

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I have many enemies in the audience, but none I have made a three-hour documentary about.

Samir Badran accepted the award for Entertainment Program of the Year for “Sveriges dummaste.” He joked that he had initially wondered whether anyone would want to be associated with such a title, adding that his wife had hidden the trophy at home.

“Kalla fakta Barnmakarna” won the investigative award after reporters Fanny zu Knyphausen and Hasse Johansson used hidden microphones and cameras to expose alleged failures in patient confidentiality and record-keeping at a rapidly expanding private IVF clinic. Carina Bergfeldt won the factual-program award for “Sex dagar kvar att leva,” about death-row prisoners in U.S. prisons. “It is a program about the gray areas, about death. But it also becomes a program about life,” she said.

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I think it actually won’t win; it hasn’t received particularly good reviews. But it is nice that I could help SVT reach a younger audience.

Mohammed Nour Oklah, nominated for his role in Netflix’s “Synden,” did not win the male acting award, which went to Joel Spira for “Parterapi i Gagnef.” Oklah said he was trying to enjoy his first gala while not focusing on his scheduled Migration Agency meeting. He has lived in Sweden since 2014 and works as a caretaker at a secondary school in Malmö.

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It is a program about the gray areas, about death. But it also becomes a program about life.