Anders Thomas Jensen
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Anders Thomas Jensen 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 screenplay
s 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 krone
r times the age of Nordisk Film
).
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
.
Jensen won the Oscar
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film
This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. For the three preceding years it was known as "Short Subjects, Live Action Films." The term "Short Subjects, Live Action Subjects" was used from 1957 until 1970. From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate...
for his 1998 film Election Night
Election Night (film)
Election Night is a 1998 Danish short comedy film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It won an Academy Award in 1999 for Best Short Subject...
. 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
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....
he wrote the screenplay
Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work that is made especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated...
s for most of the Danish movie blockbusters
Blockbuster (entertainment)
Blockbuster, as applied to film or theatre, denotes a very popular or successful production. The entertainment industry use was originally theatrical slang referring to a particularly successful play but is now used primarily by the film industry...
of the period, including Mifune's Last Song
Mifune's Last Song
Mifune's Last Song , 1999, is the third film to be made according to the "Dogme 95" group rules. It was directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. The film was a great success in Denmark and an international blockbuster, ranked among the ten best-selling Danish films worldwide.It was produced by Nimbus...
(co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...
), In China They Eat Dogs
In China They Eat Dogs
In China They Eat Dogs , , is a Danish action comedy film directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.The main roles are played by Kim Bodnia and Dejan Čukić...
, Open Hearts
Open Hearts (2002 film)
Open Hearts , is a 2002 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier using the minimalist filmmaking techniques of the Dogme 95 manifest. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter and Paprika Steen. Also referred to as Dogme #28, Open Hearts relates the story of two couples whose lives...
, Stealing Rembrandt
Stealing Rembrandt
Stealing Rembrandt is a 2003 Danish-language film. An action-comedy, the film concerns a father and son who accidentally steal a painting by Rembrandt...
, and Brothers.
In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
: the action-comedy Flickering Lights
Flickering Lights
Flickering Lights is a 2000 Danish action-comedy directed by Anders Thomas Jensen.-Plot:Four small-time gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they steal over 4,000,000 Danish kroner which they were supposed to bring him...
, and since then directed The Green Butchers
The Green Butchers
The Green Butchers is a 2003 Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Line Kruse, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss...
and Adam's Apples
Adam's Apples
Adam's Apples is a 2005 Danish comedy-drama film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. The film revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. The main roles are played by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen.- Plot :...
.
In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film , established in Denmark in 1906 by Danish filmmaker Ole Olsen, is the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film Kompagni...
Award (1000 Danish krone
Danish krone
The krone is the official currency of the Kingdom of Denmark consisting of Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. It is subdivided into 100 øre...
r times the age of Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film , established in Denmark in 1906 by Danish filmmaker Ole Olsen, is the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film Kompagni...
).
Filmography
- Restless Heart (1996) (writer)
- Ernst og lyset (1996) (director/writer)
- Davids bog (1996) (writer)
- Café Hector (1996) (writer)
- De nye lejere (1996) (writer)
- Wolfgang (1997) (director/writer)
- Election NightElection Night (film)Election Night is a 1998 Danish short comedy film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It won an Academy Award in 1999 for Best Short Subject...
(1998) (director/writer) - Nøglebørn (1998) (writer)
- Babyboom (1998) (writer)
- Albert (1998) (writer)
- En sjælden fugl (1999) (writer)
- The Funeral (1999) (writer)
- Mifunes sidste sangMifune's Last SongMifune's Last Song , 1999, is the third film to be made according to the "Dogme 95" group rules. It was directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. The film was a great success in Denmark and an international blockbuster, ranked among the ten best-selling Danish films worldwide.It was produced by Nimbus...
(1999) (writer) - In China They Eat DogsIn China They Eat DogsIn China They Eat Dogs , , is a Danish action comedy film directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.The main roles are played by Kim Bodnia and Dejan Čukić...
(1999) (writer) - Zacharias Carl Borg (2000) (writer)
- The King is AliveThe King is AliveThe King Is Alive is the fourth film to be done according to the Dogme 95 rules. It is directed by Kristian Levring. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.- Synopsis :...
(2000) (writer) - BeyondBeyond (film)Beyond is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Pernilla August, starring Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Tehilla Blad, Outi Mäenpää and Ville Virtanen. The original Swedish title is Svinalängorna, which means "The swine rows" and refers to the housing project where parts of the story are set. The film...
(2000) (writer) - Flickering Lights (2000) (director/writer)
- Count Axel (2001) (writer)
- Chop Chop (2001) (dialogue contributor)
- Old Men in New CarsOld Men in New CarsOld Men in New Cars , is a Danish action comedy film directed by Lasse Spang Olsen. The movie stars Kim Bodnia, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Tomas Villum Jensen. It is a prequel to Olsen's 1999 comedy In China They Eat Dogs.-Synopsis:...
(2002) (writer) - Open HeartsOpen Hearts (2002 film)Open Hearts , is a 2002 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier using the minimalist filmmaking techniques of the Dogme 95 manifest. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter and Paprika Steen. Also referred to as Dogme #28, Open Hearts relates the story of two couples whose lives...
(2002) (writer) - Wilbur Wants to Kill HimselfWilbur Wants to Kill HimselfWilbur Wants to Kill Himself is a Danish-Scottish film from 2002. Harbour and his suicidal brother inherit their father's second hand bookstore in their native Glasgow. Their lives become entangled with Alice and her daughter Mary after the two visit the shop...
(2002) (writer) - The Green ButchersThe Green ButchersThe Green Butchers is a 2003 Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Line Kruse, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss...
(2003) (director/writer) - Skagerrak (2003) (writer)
- Stealing RembrandtStealing RembrandtStealing Rembrandt is a 2003 Danish-language film. An action-comedy, the film concerns a father and son who accidentally steal a painting by Rembrandt...
(2003) (writer) - Brothers (2004) (writer)
- Vet Hard (2005) (writer)
- Solkongen (2005) (writer)
- Adam's ApplesAdam's ApplesAdam's Apples is a 2005 Danish comedy-drama film directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. The film revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. The main roles are played by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen.- Plot :...
(2005) (director/writer) - MurkMurk (film)Murk is a 2005 Danish dark and psychological thriller in a class of nerve-wracking, the film was directed by Jannik Johansen who writes also the screenplay alongside with Anders Thomas Jensen and in the thriller stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro....
(2005) (writer) - After the WeddingAfter the WeddingAfter the Wedding is a 2006 Danish drama directed by Susanne Bier, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The film was a critical and popular success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to The Lives of Others.In 2009 it was announced that...
(2006) (writer) - Red RoadRed Road (film)Red Road is a 2006 British film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in...
(2006) (characters) - Clash of Egos (2006) (writer)
- With Your Permission (2007) (writer)
- White Night (2007) (writer)
- The DuchessThe Duchess (film)The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film based on Amanda Foreman's biography of the 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It was released in September 2008 in the UK...
(2008) (writer) - Fear Me NotFear Me NotFear Me Not is a Danish psychological thriller film released in 2008, directed by Kristian Levring. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was produced by Nordisk Film.-Plot:...
(2008) (writer) - At World's End (2009) (writer)
- AntichristAntichrist (film)Antichrist is a 2009 arthouse-horror film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It follows horror film conventions and tells the story of a couple who, after the death of their child, retreat to a cabin in the woods where the man experiences strange...
(2009) (story supervisor) - In a Better WorldIn a Better WorldIn a Better World is a 2010 Danish-Swedish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier. The film stars Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, and Ulrich Thomsen in a story which takes place in small-town Denmark and a refugee camp in Africa.A Danish majority...
(2010) (writer)