Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen (born April 6 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

* "Hvileløse hjerte" (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)
* "Valgaften" (1998) (director/writer)
* "Nøglebørn" (1998) (writer)
* "Babyboom" (1998) (writer)
* "Albert" (1998) (writer)
* "En sjælden fugl" (1999) (writer)
* "The Funeral" (1999) (writer)
* "Mifunes sidste sang" (1999) (writer)
* "I Kina spiser de hunde" (1999) (writer)
* "Zacharias Carl Borg" (2000) (writer)
* "The King is Alive" (2000) (writer)
* "Dykkerne" (2000) (writer)
* "Blinkende lygter" (2000) (director/writer)
* "Grev Axel" (2001) (writer)
* "Fukssvansen" (2001) (dialogue contributor)
* "Gamle mænd i nye biler" (2002) (writer)
* "Elsker dig for evigt" (2002) (writer)
* "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself" (2002) (writer)
* "De grønne slagtere" (2003) (director/writer)
* "Skagerrak" (2003) (writer)
* "Rembrandt" (2003) (writer)
* "Brødre" (2004) (writer)
* "Wet Hard" (2005) (writer)
* "Solkongen" (2005) (writer)
* "Adams Æbler" (2005) (director/writer)
* "Mørke" (2005) (writer)
* "Efter brylluppet" (2006) (writer)
* "Red Road" (2006) (characters)
* "Sprængfarlig bombe" (2006) (writer)
* "Til døden os skiller" (2007) (writer)
* "Hvid nat" (2007) (writer)
* "The Duchess" (2008) (writer)
* "Den du frygter" (2008) (writer)

References and external references

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* [http://www.twitchfilm.net/archives/007048.html Blog entry from Twitch]