Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness won the Palme d'Or at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in May 2022, Östlund's second Palme after The Square in 2017, making him one of only nine directors in the festival's history to win the prize twice. He joined Bille August, Francis Ford Coppola, the Dardennes, Michael Haneke, Shōhei Imamura, Emir Kusturica, Ken Loach and Alf Sjöberg in that group. The film also earned three Academy Award nominations at the 95th ceremony in March 2023, Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

The cast includes Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin and Woody Harrelson. Charlbi Dean (a South African actress and former model in her breakthrough English-language role) died unexpectedly of bacterial sepsis in August 2022, two months after the Cannes Palme d'Or win and shortly before the U.S. theatrical release; the film is dedicated to her memory in its closing credits. Dean was thirty-two at her death.

The film was shot principally in Greece (the yacht sequences off the Aegean island of Evia) and at Bavaria Filmstudios in Munich; cinematography is by Fredrik Wenzel, Östlund's regular collaborator. Östlund has spoken in interviews about the production's research process, which included extensive consultation with hospitality-industry workers from luxury cruise lines and superyacht crew members. The film grossed over $34 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $16 million, a substantial commercial outcome for a multilingual European art-house feature, and one of the highest-grossing Palme d'Or winners of the 2020s.