Ruben Östlund

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Director	The Entertainment System Is Down (2026) Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Square (2017) Show all
Film Editor	Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Square (2017) Force Majeure (2014) Show all
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Awards	European Film Award Nominated for the Guldbagge Award Festival Award Show awards

Biography

Ruben Östlund, directed films on skiing in the late 90s, some of them now world-famous. After a documentary 2000 he made his award-winning feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid, in 2004. Involuntary (2008) was selected for Cannes 2008 and has since been in major festivals worldwide. It was also Sweden's nominee for Best Foreign Language Oscar that year. His short Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2010. His next feature, Play, premiered in Cannes 2011.

Ruben Östlund, directed films on skiing in the late 90s, some of them now world-famous. After a documentary 2000 he made his award-winning feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid, in 2004. Involuntary (2008) was selected for Cannes 2008 and has since been in major festivals worldwide. It was also Sweden's nominee for Best Foreign Language Oscar that year. His short Incident by a Bank won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2010. His next feature, Play, premiered in Cannes 2011.

The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2023	Best Director
European Film Award	Reykjavík	2022		(bästa manus / Best Screenplay, European Film Awards, Island / Iceland)
	Reykjavík	2022		(bästa regi / Best Director, European Film Awards, Island / Iceland)
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2022	Best Screenplay
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2018	Best Director
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2018	Best Screenplay
European Film Award	Berlin	2017		(bästa regissör / Best European Director)
	Berlin	2017		(bästa manusförfattare / Best European Screenwriter)
1 Kilometre Film	Stockholm	2017	Other
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2015	Best Editing
	Stockholm	2015	Best Director
	Stockholm	2015	Best Screenplay
Festival Award	Sevilla	2014		(bästa manus / Best Screenplay, Sevilla Festival de Cine, Spanien)
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2012	Best Screenplay
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2012	Best Director
Festival Award	Tokyo	2011		(bästa regi / Best Direction, Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan)
	Cracow	2010		(Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Short Fiction Film, Krakow Film Festival, Polen / Poland)
Nominated for the Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	2009	Best Director
	Stockholm	2009	Best Screenplay
Festival Award	Genève	2008		(Reflet d'Or vid Cinema-tout-ecran)
	Hamburg	2005		(juryns specialpris)
The Dragon Award	Gothenburg	2005		(Gulddraken för sina överraskande kortfilmer och för långfilmsdebuten Gitarrmongot.

Director	The Entertainment System Is Down (2026) Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Square (2017) Force Majeure (2014) Play (2011) Incident by a Bank (2010) Involuntary (2008) Nattbad (2006) Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (2005) The Guitar Mongoloid (2004) Familj igen (2002) Scen nr: 6345 ur mitt liv (2001) Låt dom andra sköta kärleken (2000) Free Radicals 2 (1998) Free Radicals (1996)
Screenplay	The Entertainment System Is Down (2026) Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Square (2017) Force Majeure (2014) Play (2011) Incident by a Bank (2010) Involuntary (2008) Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (2005) The Guitar Mongoloid (2004) Låt dom andra sköta kärleken (2000)
Producer	Den ljusnande framtid är vår (2004)
Director of Photography	An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation (2008) Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (2005) Irmelin (2003) Familj igen (2002) Låt dom andra sköta kärleken (2000)
Film Editor	Triangle of Sadness (2022) The Square (2017) Force Majeure (2014) Play (2011) Incident by a Bank (2010) Involuntary (2008) Weekend (2006) Autobiographical Scene Number 6882 (2005) Kalle och bollhavet (2002) Familj igen (2002) Låt dom andra sköta kärleken (2000)
Cast	Room 1112 (2012) An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation (2008)
Participant	This is Cinema! (2023)
Advisor	Pleasure (2021) Fight on a Swedish Beach!! (2016) Victim-Mentality Rhetoric (2012) Top Dog (2010)
Artistic Advisor	Ten Meter Tower (2016) Extra Material (2015)
Executive Producer	TwinBrothers - 53 Scenes in Cronological Order (2011) Greetings from the Woods (2009) Weekend (2006)
Digital Editing	The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)
Graphic Design	Space (2003)
Thanks to	Såsom i en hamburgare (2005)

Screenwriters	Turist (Film, 2014)

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