Michael Haneke
Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- March 23, 1942 · Munich
- Nationality
- Austria
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, writer, university teacher
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
2012 · France / Germany / Austria · drama
Palme d'Or winner 2012 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2013 #1 · César Best Film winner 2013
3.395 citations - 2
2009 · France / Germany / Austria · drama, mystery
Palme d'Or winner 2009 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2010 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #12
2.585 citations - 3
2005 · France / Germany / Austria · drama, thriller
Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #93 · Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #4 · Empire 500 (2008) #382
1.315 citations - 4The Piano TeacherLa Pianiste
2001 · France / Austria / Germany · drama, romance, thriller
Cannes Grand Prix winner 2001 · Film Comment year-end poll 2002 #16 · Criterion Collection spine #894
1.274 citations - 5
1997 · Austria · drama, horror
Criterion Collection spine #975 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.272 citations - 6Code UnknownCode inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages
2000 · France / Germany / Romania · drama
Criterion Collection spine #780
0.161 citation
Complete filmography
All 18 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1976Three Paths to the Lake
- 1984Who Was Edgar Allan?
- 1989The Seventh Continent
- 1992Benny's Video
- 199471 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
- 1995Lumière and Company
- 1997Funny Games
- 1997The Castle
- 2000Code Unknown
- 2001The Piano Teacher
- 2003Time of the Wolf
- 2005Caché
- 2007Funny Games U.S.
- 2009The White Ribbon
- 2012Amour
- 2017Happy End
- —After Liverpool
- —Fraulein - Ein deutsches Melodram