Anders Thomas Jensen
Born: 1972-04-06 in Frederiksværk, Danmark
Known For: Directing
Biography
Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune's Last Song (co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), In China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples. In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film).
Filmography
2025
- The Last Viking ... (Director)
2023
- The Promised Land ... (Writer)
- Agent as Robert gæst
2022
- Dansk films bedste as Sig selv
2021
- The Marco Effect ... (Script Consultant)
2020
- Riders of Justice ... (Director)
- Abbi fede ... (Original Film Writer)
- The Idiots Who Started The Party as Sig selv
- When Danish Film Crosses the Line as Sig selv
2019
- Minkavlerne ... (Script Consultant)
- After the Wedding ... (Original Film Writer)
- Held for Ransom ... (Writer)
- Between Us ... (Script Consultant)
2017
- The Dark Tower ... (Screenplay)
2015
- The Shamer's Daughter ... (Writer)
- Men & Chicken ... (Writer)
- People Get Eaten ... (Script Consultant)
2014
- The Salvation ... (Writer)
- A Second Chance ... (Writer)
2013
- Tomgang ... (Writer)
- All for Two ... (Writer)
2012
- Love Is All You Need ... (Screenplay)
- Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past ... (Production Manager)
2011
- Boys On Film: Bad Romance ... (Writer)
2010
- In a Better World ... (Screenplay)
2009
- Brothers ... (Writer)
- Antichrist ... (Story Supervisor)
- The New Tenants ... (Writer)
- At World's End ... (Writer)
2008
- The Duchess ... (Screenplay)
- Fear Me Not ... (Writer)
2007
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) ... (Director)
- White Night ... (Writer)
- With Your Permission ... (Screenplay)
2006
- After the Wedding ... (Screenplay)
- Red Road ... (Writer)
- Clash of Egos ... (Screenplay)
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) ... (Director)
2005
- Adam's Apples ... (Director)
- Too Fat Too Furious ... (Screenplay)
- Murk ... (Writer)
- The Sun King ... (Writer)
2004
- Brothers ... (Writer)
2003
- The Green Butchers ... (Screenplay)
- Stealing Rembrandt ... (Screenplay)
- Sweet Dreams ... (Screenplay)
2002
- Open Hearts ... (Screenplay)
- Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II ... (Screenplay)
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself ... (Screenplay)
2001
- Count Axel ... (Screenplay)
2000
- Flickering Lights ... (Director)
- The King Is Alive ... (Writer)
- Beyond ... (Writer)
1999
- In China They Eat Dogs ... (Writer)
- Mifune ... (Writer)
1998
- Albert ... (Screenplay)
- Election Night ... (Director)
- Baby Doom ... (Writer)
- Restless Heart ... (Writer)
1997
- Wolfgang ... (Director)
1996
- Davids bog ... (Writer)
- Café Hector ... (Screenplay)
- Ernst & the Light ... (Director)