32 Facts About Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke teaches film direction at the Film Academy Vienna.

Michael Haneke went on to win the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher as well as its twice, for The White Ribbon and Amour, the latter of which received five Academy Award nominations and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Michael Haneke directed Funny Games and its 2007 remake, Code Unknown, Time of the Wolf, Cache, and Happy End.

Michael Haneke is the son of German actor and director Fritz Michael Haneke and Austrian actress Beatrix von Degenschild.

Michael Haneke was raised in the city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

Michael Haneke showed a strong interest in literature and music, but as an adolescent developed a "downright contempt for any form of school".

Michael Haneke had ambitions of becoming an actor in his youth, later abandoning these plans after failing an entrance examination at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Michael Haneke later attended the University of Vienna to study philosophy, psychology and drama.

Michael Haneke made his debut as a television director in 1974.

Michael Haneke made his debut as a writer and director with the 1974 television movie After Liverpool starring Hildegard Schmahl and Dieter Kirchlechner.

Michael Haneke then directed two more television films, Three Paths to the Lake, about a war photo journalist who faces a moral crisis when she is forced to examine the implications of her work, and another telefilm Sperrmull.

The film showed at the New York Film Festival where Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised the performances and Michael Haneke writing, "The film makes strong, if heavy-handed, points about the confusing effects of television violence".

David Rooney of Variety wrote about his continuation of the examination of violence writing, "Michael Haneke is clearly more interested in the implications of violence than the acts themselves, and the psychological wallop they pack is strengthened by having most of the physical and emotional carnage played off-camera".

Michael Haneke directed the French film Code Unknown starring Juliette Binoche.

Michael Haneke achieved great success with the critically acclaimed French film The Piano Teacher.

Michael Haneke incorporated stories of the Paris massacre of 1961 into the film.

Michael Haneke won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director for the film.

In 2012, Michael Haneke directed Amour starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

The film earned the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Michael Haneke earning Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, the later nominations being the first of his career.

Michael Haneke realized this production at Madrid's Teatro Real in 2013.

That year, Michael Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts.

In 2017, for his twelfth film, Happy End Michael Haneke reunited with Trintignant and Huppert.

Michael Haneke says that films should offer viewers more space for imagination and self-reflection.

Films that have too much detail and moral clarity, Michael Haneke says, are used for mindless consumption by their viewers.

Michael Haneke is known for directing films which are often unsentimental and uses disturbing imagery to explore social critiques on issues such as class, race, gender, and violence.

Michael Haneke is known for his use of the long take rather than relying on quick edits or fast paced editing.

Michael Haneke prefers to let his scenes unfold slowly, allowing the audience to fully experience the tension and emotion of each moment.

Michael Haneke uses static shots, ambiguous endings, meta-narratives, and silence.

Michael Haneke has collaborated with Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche on numerous films.

Michael Haneke later won the Grand Prix at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for The Piano Teacher and the Best Director Award for Cache at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Michael Haneke subsequently directed the 2007 remake of his controversial 1997 film Funny Games.

In 2013, Michael Haneke won the Prince of Asturias Award for the arts.