Ruben Östlund was announced as the President of the Jury for the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the world renowned director.
- Ruben Östlund was born on April 13th, 1974
- He is a Swedish filmmaker
- He was best known for his black comedic and satirical films Force Majeure (2014), The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022)
- All of which received largely positive reviews
- The films won awards at the Cannes Film Festival
- The latter two won the Palme d’Or
- His English-language debut Triangle of Sadness received critical acclaim
- The film earned him an Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay
- The film itself was nominated for Best Picture
- 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
- The film competed at the Cannes Film Festival, where it ultimately won the Palme d’Or
- 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 the same year, only a day after winning The Guldbaggengala, he was the Swedish nomination in Best Picture to the Academy Awards 2023 as well in Original Screenplay
- 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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