---
name: "Erik Hemmendorff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erik-hemmendorff"
fi1m_id: "erik-hemmendorff"
imdb_id: "nm1615036"
tmdb_id: 932556
wikidata_id: "Q16633043"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "14 April 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T08:38:03.772534+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Erik Hemmendorff

## Identity

Erik Hemmendorff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erik-hemmendorff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erik-hemmendorff
- **IMDb ID:** nm1615036
- **TMDB ID:** 932556
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16633043
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16633043, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1615036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/932556

Producer. Born 14 April 1973 in Stockholm.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 14 April 1973, Stockholm
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Philippe Bober](https://film.one/person/philippe-bober.md), [Ruben Östlund](https://film.one/person/ruben-ostlund.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16633043, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1615036/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/932556

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Force Majeure*](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md) (84)
- **Netflix:** [*Triangle of Sadness*](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Erik Hemmendorff is a Swedish film producer and writer. He was born on 14 April 1973 in Stockholm and grew up in Frösön near Östersund. He studied at the University of Photography and Film in Gothenburg.

In 2002 he co-founded the production company Platform Produktion with director Ruben Östlund. Hemmendorff has produced Östlund’s films *Involuntary* (2008), *Play* (2011), *Force Majeure* (2014), *The Square* (2017) and *Triangle of Sadness* (2022), as well as other titles including *Pleasure* (2021) and *Bergman Island* (2021). He has also worked as a co-producer and executive producer on additional projects.

Hemmendorff received the Lorens Prize for Best Swedish Producer in 2008 and was named Producer on the Move at Cannes in 2009. In 2015 he was awarded the Västra Götalandsregionens kulturpris.

*Sources: svenskfilmdatabas.se, sv.wikipedia.org, norden.org, plattformproduktion.se.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Triangle of Sadness* (2022), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness.md)
- *Force Majeure* (2014), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Redoubt* (2026), Producer
- *Orenda* (2025), Co-Producer
- *Sweet Dreams* (2023), Co-Producer
- *And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine* (2023), Executive Producer
- *A Tiger in Paradise* (2023), Producer
- *Triangle of Sadness* (2022), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/triangle-of-sadness.md)
- *Pleasure* (2021), Producer
- *Bergman Island* (2021), Co-Producer
- *DAU. Cinema* (2020), Co-Producer
- *Downhill* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Fraemling* (2019), Producer
- *Beware of Children* (2019), Co-Producer
- *Ridge* (2019), Producer
- *Old Boys* (2018), Co-Producer
- *Boys on Film 18: Heroes* (2018), Producer
- *The Square* (2017), Producer
- *Epiphany* (2017), Producer
- *The Greatest* (2017), Editor, Producer
- *Mother Knows Best* (2016), Producer
- *Ten Meter Tower* (2016), Producer
- *Shadowland* (2015), Producer
- *Råggywood: Vi ska bli rappare* (2015), Producer
- *Force Majeure* (2014), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/force-majeure.md)
- *Concrete Night* (2013), Co-Producer
- *Förår* (2013), Producer
- *Twin Brothers: 53 Scenes in Chronological Order* (2011), Cinematography
- *Play* (2011), Writer, Producer
- *The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González* (2011), Additional Photography, Producer
- *Incident by a Bank* (2010), Producer
- *Greetings from the Woods* (2009), Producer
- *Involuntary* (2008), Producer, Screenplay
- *An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation* (2008), as Producer
- *Pusselbitar* (2006), Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematography
- *Weekend* (2006), Producer
- *Autobiographical Scene Number 6882* (2005), Writer, Producer
- *The Guitar Mongoloid* (2004), Sound
- *Den ljusnande framtid är vår* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Looking for Tsai* (2002), Director, Writer, Sound, Editor, Cinematography
- *Vildhussen* (1996), Assistant Director
- *The Entertainment System Is Down*, Producer
- *Quo Vadis, Aida? – The Missing Mart*, Co-Producer

## Gallery

- ![Erik Hemmendorff](https://film.one/media/person/121401/gallery-698765fb9536.jpg) Erik Hemmendorff — Frankie Fouganthin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Erik_Hemmendorff_in_August_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ruben Östlund (til højre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris 20](https://film.one/media/person/121401/gallery-f988959ef972.jpg) Ruben Östlund (til højre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris 20 — Gunnar Bangsmoen, Norsk filminstitutt, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Ruben_ostlund_%28til_hojre%29_har_skrevet_manuskriptet_og_instrueret_filmen_Play%2C_og_star_sammen_med_produceren_Erik_Hemmendorff%2C_vinder_af_Nordisk_Rads_Filmpris_2012.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruben Östlund (til højre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris 20](https://film.one/media/person/121401/gallery-6f17f0d6bb50.jpg) Ruben Östlund (til højre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris 20 — Gunnar Bangsmoen, Norsk filminstitutt, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Ruben_ostlund_%28til_hojre%29_har_skrevet_manuskriptet_og_instrueret_filmen_Play%2C_og_star_sammen_med_produceren_Erik_Hemmendorff%2C_vinder_af_Nordisk_Rads_Filmpris_2012_%281%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Ruben Östlund (til venstre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris ](https://film.one/media/person/121401/gallery-bf8691ef4263.jpg) Ruben Östlund (til venstre) har skrevet manuskriptet og instrueret filmen Play, og står sammen med produceren Erik Hemmendorff, vinder af Nordisk Råds Filmpris  — Gunnar Bangsmoen, Norsk filminstitutt, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ruben_ostlund_%28til_venstre%29_har_skrevet_manuskriptet_og_instrueret_filmen_Play%2C_og_star_sammen_med_produceren_Erik_Hemmendorff%2C_vinder_af_Nordisk_Rads_Filmpris_2012.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Picture (nominated), for *Triangle of Sadness*

### Other awards — 3 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Film 2022: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *Triangle of Sadness*
- European Film Award for Best Comedy 2017: European Film Award for Best Comedy (won), for *The Square*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2017: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *The Square*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2014: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Force Majeure*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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