Ruben Östlund is aware of it sounds “absurd” to complain about successful awards, nonetheless, he admits that they add one other degree of “strain” for filmmakers.
Throughout a latest dialog with Mom Sofa writer-director Niclas Larsson for Interview journal, the Triangle of Unhappiness director was requested if “awards create self-confidence or make you extra insecure?”
“It makes you extra insecure, I’d say,” Östlund responded. “For me it was 100% like this. Successful one Golden Palm put extra strain on me, however successful two Golden Palms took away loads of strain as a result of meaning I wasn’t a one hit marvel. However then additionally I would like strain as a way to carry out.”
He continued, “In order that’s why the aim with the subsequent movie is to win one other Golden Palm. It’s going to be the primary time within the historical past of filmmaking {that a} director wins three Golden Palms in a row.”
Östlund gained his first Palme for The Sq. in 2017 after which once more in 2022 for Triangle of Unhappiness. Although he famous that “it’s utterly absurd to say this stuff,” the filmmaker additionally acknowledges that “strain” can assist propel folks towards their targets.
“For me, the aim is to create a bar that’s pushed up and to create a aim,” Östlund defined. “I feel lots of people contemplate me very cocky in a means, however for me, you say it as a result of it creates one thing that makes it potential to push one thing.”
The Oscar-nominated director added earlier within the dialog, “I feel additionally true inventive confidence and managing to realize one thing and dealing with function movies and touring the world and assembly folks additionally developed my self-confidence. So it’s one thing about getting confidence in a career after which by means of that, experiencing the world and being put up in several social conditions that makes you much more assured.”
Östlund has additionally earned two Oscar nominations for Triangle of Unhappiness, together with finest directing and finest unique screenplay. The movie additionally scored a finest image nod, whereas The Sq. obtained a finest international language movie nom.