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The Piano Teacher
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1363
- IMDb #1095
- Rotten Tomatoes #1812
- Metacritic #496
- Letterboxd #487
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2413
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1570
- Metacritic Critics #753
- Metacritic Audience #351
- Criticker #347
- Douban #1037
- Kinopoisk #1880
- AlloCiné #2056
- Trakt #2462
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 67, highest is Metacritic users on 82.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A respected but severely repressed piano professor at a Vienna conservatory lives a life of artistic perfection and emotional isolation under the domineering eye of her mother. She becomes obsessed with a self-assured young student who pursues her. Their relationship becomes a dangerous battle of control and manipulation as she reveals her deeply hidden masochistic fantasies, leading to a destructive and shocking confrontation.
Details
- Director
- Michael Haneke
- Writer
- Michael Haneke
- Based on
- The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
- Released
- 5 September 2001
- Country
- France, Austria, Germany
- Language
- French, German
- Runtime
- 131 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $6.2M
- Box office
- $6.8M
- Awards
- 6 wins, 7 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →4 major awards won · 6 wins from 13 nominations across 7 ceremonies
| César Awards 2002 | Best Supporting Actress | Annie Girardot | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2001 | Best Actor | Benoît Magimel | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2001 | Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Winner |
| Cannes Film Festival 2001 | Grand Prix | Michael Haneke | Winner |
| César Awards 2002 | Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Nominee |
| Independent Spirit Awards 2002 | Best Foreign Film | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Cannes Film Festival 2001 | Palme d'Or | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Golden Eagle Award 2003 | Best Foreign Language Film | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
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13 awards — The Piano Teacher
×| Best Actor | Benoît Magimel | Winner |
| Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Winner |
| Grand Prix | Michael Haneke | Winner |
| Palme d'Or | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actress | Annie Girardot | Winner |
| Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Film | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Winner |
| Best Film | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Best Screenwriter | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Isabelle Huppert | Winner |
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Michael Haneke | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Michael Haneke | Nominee |