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In 2015, on Oscar nominations morning, Swedish director Ruben Östlund became something of an internet meme. Östlund and his producing partner Erik Hemmendorff, inside a room in New York’s ...
The latest one to follow the dual win precedent established by Alf Sjoberg (1944’s “Torment” and 1951’s “Miss Julie”) is another Swedish director, Ruben Ostlund, whose first and second ...
RUBEN ÖSTLUND: It’s fantastic. It’s almost 5 p.m., and the nominations were at half past two. We had a beer [to celebrate] because the thing is, the Swedish Awards [The Guldbagges] were ...
After winning the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize in Cannes and going on to strong box office, great word of mouth and making the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist in December, Swedish helmer Ruben ...
Ruben Östlund is one of only nine filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or twice — and both movies went on to score Oscar nominations. The Swedish director’s 2017 art world satire “The Square ...
Ruben Ostlund is not pleased when he finds out that his movie won't be up for an Academy Award for foreign-language film. By Lorena O'Neil Swedish Director Freak out Still - H 2015 In the clip ...
The best movie involving a boat since “Titanic” with the best vomiting sequence since “Team America: World Police,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” is an energetic and wacky ...
Mr. Ostlund, 49, won the Palme d’Or, last year for “Triangle of Sadness,” a class satire set aboard a doomed luxury yacht, and for his previous feature, “The Square,” an unsparing sendup ...
Two of the titans of satire, Cord Jefferson and Ruben Ostlund, join forces to talk about Jefferson's Oscar-nominated American Fiction.