Roy Andersson
Born: 1943-03-31 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Known For: Directing
Biography
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019). Imdb Mini Bio By ; yusufpiskin
Filmography
2025
- Being Bo Widerberg as Self
2024
- The Andersson Brothers as Self
2023
- Roy Andersson's People as Self
2021
- The Most Beautiful Boy in the World ... (Thanks)
2020
- Året var 1970 as Self (archive footage)
- Being a Human Person as Self
2019
- About Endlessness ... (Screenplay)
2018
- Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2017
- Citizen Schein as Self
2014
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence ... (Director)
2012
- Palme as Self
- Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan! as Himself
- Room 1112
2011
- Tomorrow's Another Day as Himself
2009
- 5 x Roy Andersson ... (Writer)
- På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson as Himself
2007
- You, the Living ... (Director)
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) ... (Director)
2006
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) ... (Director)
2001
- You Do the Best You Can as Self
2000
- Songs from the Second Floor ... (Screenplay)
- One Morning All Over the World ... (Director)
- The Greatness of the Small Man as Self
- Obsessions du deuxième étage as Self
1998
- Life at Any Cost as Himself
1991
- World of Glory ... (Director)
1987
- Something Has Happened ... (Editor)
1985
- Jonny Roova ... (Producer)
- Why Should We Care About Each Other? ... (Director)
1979
- So Terribly Unnecessary ... (Director)
1975
- Giliap ... (Director)
1970
- A Swedish Love Story ... (Director)
1969
- Adalen 31 ... (Assistant Director)
- Saturday October 5th ... (Director)
1968
- To Fetch a Bike ... (Writer)
- The White Game ... (Director of Photography)
1967
- Visiting One's Son ... (Director)