Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Born 1972 · Frederiksværk, Danmark
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).
Directed
Riders of Justice
Director · 2020
Adam's Apples
Director · 2005
The Green Butchers
Director · 2003
Flickering Lights
Director · 2000
Men & Chicken
Director · 2015
The Last Viking
Director · 2025
Election Night
Director · 1998
Ernst & the Light
Director · 1996
Wolfgang
Director · 1997
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
Director · 2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Director · 2006
The Monster of Florence
Director
Acting
Writing
Brothers
Writer · 2009
Antichrist
Story Supervisor · 2009
The Duchess
Screenplay · 2008
Riders of Justice
Screenplay · 2020
Adam's Apples
Writer · 2005
The Dark Tower
Screenplay · 2017
The Promised Land
Writer · 2023
After the Wedding
Story · 2006
The Salvation
Writer · 2014
In a Better World
Screenplay · 2010
In China They Eat Dogs
Writer · 1999
The Green Butchers
Screenplay · 2003