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Netflix Smash ‘Secrets We Keep’ and Canneseries Prizewinner ‘A Better Man’ Scoop Nominations for Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award

Jan 8, 2026 4:00am PT Netflix Smash ‘Secrets We Keep’ and Canneseries Prizewinner ‘A Better Man’ Scoop Nominations for Göteborg’s Nordic Series Script Award ‘Vigdis,’ helmed by ‘The Witcher’ Star Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, also makes the shortlist alongside breakout hits ‘My Brother’ and ‘Queen of F*ucking Everything’ By John Hopewell Plus Icon John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent john_hopewell Latest Inside the Oscar-Shortlisted and Annie-Nominated ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls,’ a Fable for Times of Unfettered Greed 2 days ago Spain’s Atresmedia Cine Unveils 2026 Releases Including Santiago Segura’s ‘Torrente Presidente’ and Los Javis’ ‘La Bola Negra’ 1 week ago 2025 Box Office in Spain Drops 8%, Hit by October’s Spring-Like Weather and a Lack of Really Big U. S. Hits 1 week ago See All Nominated writers, Nordic Series Script Award Credit: Göteborg Film Festival Netflix barnstormer “Secrets We Keep,” Canneseries top winner “A Better Man” and “Vignis,” directed by “The Witcher” star Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, will do battle for the 2026 Nordic Series Script Award, the Göteborg Film Festival’s weightiest industry award. Also making the shortlist cut, announced Thursday, is “My Brother,” the second Nordic Script Award nomination in three years for Denmark’s Karin Arrhenius, and Finland’s “Queen of Fucking Everything,” from former actor Tiina Lymi who burnished her writer-director credentials with Góteborg-selected feature with “Stormskerry Maja.” Related Stories Paco León’s ‘Aida, the Movie’ Landing in the U. S., Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Central America Presented by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond, in partnership with Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the Script Award promotes series writers from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, carrying a cash prize of NOK 200,000 ($19,800).

Nominated writers

Nominated writers

Credit: Variety

Key Highlights

  • Popular on Variety In the past, its five-title shortlist has often mixed established and on-the-rise creators, such as its 2025 winner, emerging scribe Pelle Rådström behind the sensational “Pressure Point.” For 2026, however, the Award simply highlights the main writer or writers talent behind five of the biggest Nordic drama series hits premiered in 2025.
  • That’s saying something, given Scandinavian series’ ability to command audiences at home and abroad.
  • The portrait-thriller of a well-heeled woman faced to rethink her woolly liberal platitudes, Denmark’s “Secrets We Keep,’ written by Ingeborg Topsøe, proved one of Netflix’s three biggest non-English series over Jan.-Sept 2025, scoring 35 million views, only bettered by “The Squid Game” Season 3 (122 million views) and Germany’s “Cassandra” (36 million).
  • Created by Thomas Seeberg Torjussen (“Zombielars”), Norway’s “A Better Man,” sold by Beta Film, won Canneseries best series and performance (Anders Baasmo, “Kon-Tiki”) prizes in April, then scored best international series and the Audience Award at November Barcelona’s Serielizados.
  • Written by Ágústa M Ólafsdóttir and Björg Magnúsdóttir (“The Minister”), helmed by Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, King Eisin in “The Witcher,” and produced by Vesturport, behind Series Mania top prizewinner “Blackport,” “Vigdis” scored a 60% market share for Icelandic public broadcaster RUV from a Jan.
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