Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prominant German television and film director.

He is the director of the critical and commercial triumph DOWNFALL, which was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, and which won Best Foreign Film at the British Independent Film Awards and the London Critics Circle Film Awards; and the multi award-winning DAS EXPERIMENT, which won him Best Director at the Montreal and Istanbul Film Festivals.

In 2024, he directed on Apple TV’s CONSTELLATION, a Sci-Fi psychological thriller series starring Noomi Rapace and James D’Arcy. 

On the small screen, Oliver directed the entire second season of hit German series 4 BLOCKS, and the German series in the Netflix anthology CRIMINAL. He previously directed the first block of Tom Fontana’s series BORGIA, and TURN in the US for AMC. Other television credits include THE SAME SKY, MÖRDERISCHE ENTSCHEIDUNG – UMSCHALTEN ERWÜNSCHT, BERLIN BERLIN (AKA BACK TO BACK), TATORT, KOMMISSAR REX, BILLIONS and DAS URTEIL, which received an Emmy nomination for Best Foreign TV Drama.

Further film credits include the award winning 13 MINUTES and FIVE MINUTES OF HEAVEN starring Liam Neeson, for which Oliver won Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and DIANA starring Naomi Watts.