2024Winner
Best Director
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Benjamin Ree
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Oslo, Norway
July 10, 1989
Biography
Benjamin Ree (born July 10, 1989) is a Norwegian director and cinematographer of several documentaries, including Magnus (2016), The Painter and the Thief (2020), and Ibelin (2024). Ree began making films at the age of eleven and studied Journalism at Oslo Metropolitan University. After his studies Ree worked as a freelance videojournalist for BBC and Reuters, most notably covering the 2011 Norway attacks. Ree has said in interviews that making his first feature Magnus was his film school: "There I understood that I could transfer the interviews to a universal, nonverbal cinematic language."
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2016Nominee
Best Director
Magnus
2020Nominee
Best Director
The Painter and the Thief
Career Highlights
2012Highlight
Best Director
Dreaming of the Golden Eagle
2014Highlight
Best Director
When Ailin Kissed Lars
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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Magnus
The Painter and the Thief