Ruben Östlund
Director
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Ruben Östlund (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrʉːbɛnˈœstlɵnd]) (born April 13 1974) is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his satirical black comedy films Force Majeure (2014), The Square(2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He is the recipient of various accolades, including two Palmes d'Or, four European Film Awards and nominations for three Academy Awards.
Östlund was born in Styrsö, Gothenburg Municipality, Sweden. After high school, he started working in various ski resorts in the Alps during the winter seasons. While in the Alps, he began making skiing videos for his friends, which helped him obtain a job at a local production company.
He went on to study at the film school in Gothenburg, graduating in 2001. He was accepted to the school based on his skiing films. Together with film producer Erik Hemmendorff, he is the co-founder of the production company Plattform Produktion, which produces his films.
His first three feature-length fiction films were The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008) and Play (2011). The Guitar Mongoloid won the FIPRESCI Award at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. Östlund's short film Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival in 2011.
In 2014, his film Force Majeure was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize. Sweden then submitted Force Majeure for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. After the Academy shortlisted but did not nominate it, Östlund released a humorous video of his response to missing the nomination list. In 2016, he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.
In 2017, his film The Square, loosely inspired by some of his own experiences and art installation with Kalle Boman, competed at the Cannes Film Festival, where it ultimately won the Palme d'Or. Alissa Wilkinson of Vox described the film as "Burying self-referential allusions in the background and merrily poking viewers till they bruise, The Square at times feels more like longform performance art than a narrative film. It's social satire by way of art-world comedy, and no woke participant is exempt from its barbs."
In 2020, he received the King's Medal in Gold for significant efforts in Swedish film.
Afterwards, he pursued the project Triangle of Sadness, a satirical film about the wealthy elite, winning his second Palme d'Or in 2022. On January 23, 2023, he won Best Director at the Guldbaggens gala for Triangle of Sadness. The film won five other nominations. In January of the same year, only a day after winning the Guldbaggengala, Triangle of Sadness received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. He was the Jury president of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Östlund has been in a relationship with fashion photographer Sina Görcz since 2014 and has a son called Elias. He was previously married to his director colleague Andrea Östlund. They divorced in 2008 and have twin daughters, Alva and Hilda, together. Östlund was 28 when he became a father for the first time and was working on The Guitar Mongoloid, his first feature film.
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Behind the Camera
Beau tiene miedo
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El Triángulo de la Tristeza
Editor, Director, Escritor
The Square: La farsa del arte
Director, Escritor, Editor
Fuerza Mayor
Editor, Director, Guionista
Cuesta abajo
Productor Ejecutivo, Original Film Writer
The Entertainment System Is Down
Director, Escritor, Productor
Hopptornet
Art Department Production Assistant
Play
Director, Escritor, Editor
De ofrivilliga
Director, Guionista, Editor
Weekend
Editor, Productor Ejecutivo
And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
Productor Ejecutivo
Fight on a Swedish Beach!!
Creative Director
Gitarrmongot
Director, Escritor
Livet og andre problemer
Productor Ejecutivo
VÄRN
Productor
Kalle och bollhavet
Editor
Make-Up
Thanks
Scen nr: 6882 ur mitt liv
Dir. de Fotografía, Director, Escritor, Editor
Händelse vid bank
Director, Guionista, Editor
En enastående studie i mänsklig förnedring
Dir. de Fotografía, Productor
Hälsningar från skogen
Productor Ejecutivo
Pangpangbröder: 53 scener från en barndom
Productor Ejecutivo
Snow thérapie
Original Film Writer
Free Radicals II
Dir. de Fotografía, Director
Låt dom andra sköta kärleken
Director, Dir. de Fotografía, Guionista, Editor
Irmelin
Dir. de Fotografía
Free Radicals
Camera Operator, Director
Death of a Fantastic Machine
Production Consultant
Familj igen
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Ruben Östlunds attack mot NATO
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As Actor/Actress
Skavlan
Self - Guest
Le Cercle
Self
Carina Bergfeldt
Self - Guest
Min sanning
Self
Babel
Chambre 999
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Ritratti di cinema
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La légende de la Palme d'Or... continue
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Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
Code Haneke
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Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman
Self - Filmmaker
Rum 1112
Il était une fois... « The Square »
Self
En enastående studie i mänsklig förnedring
Vittorio De Sica - La vita in scena
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