His film "Force Majeure" was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. Sweden then submitted "Force Majeure" for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. After the Academy shortlisted but did not nominate it, Östlund released a humorous video of his response to missing the nomination list. In 2016 he was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes.