Anders Thomas Jensen

Director · Born April 6, 1972 · 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).

Directed 11

2020s

2025
The Last Viking
Director
76
2020
Riders of Justice
Director
80

2010s

2015
Men & Chicken
Director
66

2000s

2007
Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
Director
2006
Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
Director
2005
Adam's Apples
Director
70
2003
The Green Butchers
Director
66
2000
Flickering Lights
Director

1990s

1998
Election Night
Director
1997
Wolfgang
Director
1996
Ernst & the Light
Director

Wrote 56

2020s

2026
Harvest
Script Consultant
2025
The Last Viking
Screenplay
76
2023
The Promised Land
Writer
81
2021
The Marco Effect
Script Consultant
54
2020
Riders of Justice
Screenplay, Idea
80
Abbi fede
Original Film Writer

2010s

2019
Between Us
Script Consultant
Minkavlerne
Script Consultant
Held for Ransom
Writer
79
After the Wedding
Original Film Writer
57
2017
The Dark Tower
Screenplay
43
2015
The Shamer's Daughter
Writer
59
People Get Eaten
Script Consultant
Men & Chicken
Writer
66
A Second Chance
Writer, Story
57
2014
The Salvation
Writer
67
2013
Tomgang
Writer, Script Consultant
All for Two
Writer
2012
Love Is All You Need
Screenplay, Story
65
2011
Boys On Film: Bad Romance
Writer
2010
In a Better World
Screenplay, Story

2000s

2009
The New Tenants
Writer
Brothers
Writer
67
At World's End
Writer
Antichrist
Story Supervisor
59
2008
Fear Me Not
Writer
The Duchess
Screenplay
66
2007
White Night
Writer
With Your Permission
Screenplay
46
2006
Red Road
Writer
Clash of Egos
Screenplay
59
After the Wedding
Screenplay, Story
2005
Murk
Writer
66
Adam's Apples
Writer
70
The Sun King
Writer
Too Fat Too Furious
Screenplay
60
2004
Brothers
Writer
77
2003
Stealing Rembrandt
Screenplay
Sweet Dreams
Screenplay
The Green Butchers
Screenplay
66
2002
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Screenplay
71
Open Hearts
Screenplay
78
Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Screenplay, Idea
2001
Count Axel
Screenplay
57
2000
Flickering Lights
Screenplay
Beyond
Writer
The King Is Alive
Writer

1990s

1999
In China They Eat Dogs
Writer
73
Mifune
Writer
1998
Albert
Screenplay
Baby Doom
Writer
Election Night
Writer
1997
Wolfgang
Screenplay
1996
Ernst & the Light
Writer
Café Hector
Screenplay
Davids bog
Writer

Acted in 5

2020s

2026
Sonny Mango
Ærkeenglen Anders
2023
Agent
Robert gæst · 1 episode
2022
Dansk films bedste
Sig selv · 8 episodes
2020
The Idiots Who Started The Party
Sig selv
When Danish Film Crosses the Line
Sig selv

Produced 1

2010s

2012
Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past
Production Manager