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Ruben Östlund

Swedish film director and screenwriter (born 1974)

4.10body-of-work score · ranked #269 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 13, 1974 · Styrsö
Nationality
Sweden
Work
film director, screenwriter, film producer, film editor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Ruben Östlund
Frankie Fouganthin · CC BY-SA 4.0

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. 1
    Triangle of SadnessMust-See #348

    2022 · Sweden / Germany / United Kingdom · drama, comedy

    Palme d'Or winner 2022 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2022 · Criterion Collection spine #1178

    2.113 citations
  2. 2
    The SquareMust-See #484

    2017 · Sweden / Germany / France · comedy, drama

    Palme d'Or winner 2017 · Film Comment year-end poll 2017 #20

    1.732 citations
  3. 3
    Force MajeureTurist

    2014 · Sweden / France / Norway · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #14

    0.261 citation

Complete filmography

All 9 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.