Anders Thomas Jensen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 6, 1972
- Place of birth
- Frederiksværk, Danmark
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).
Movies with Anders Thomas Jensen
- The Idiots Who Started The Party 2020 · ★ 6.0
- When Danish Film Crosses the Line 2020
- Sonny Mango 2026
Movies directed by Anders Thomas Jensen
- Riders of Justice 2020 · ★ 7.3
- Adam's Apples 2005 · ★ 7.5
- The Green Butchers 2003 · ★ 7.1
- Flickering Lights 2000 · ★ 7.2
- The Last Viking 2025 · ★ 7.2
- Men & Chicken 2015 · ★ 6.5
- Election Night 1998 · ★ 7.1
- Ernst & the Light 1996 · ★ 6.9
- Wolfgang 1997 · ★ 5.9
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) 2007 · ★ 6.0
- Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) 2006 · ★ 6.0