Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His film Election Night won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Early life and education Anders Thomas Jensen was born on 6 April 1972 was born in Frederiksværk, Denmark.

Career

Jensen won the Oscar for Best Short Subject for his 1998 film Election Night. He received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & Lyset (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). He also wrote the script for After the Wedding which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign film in 2007, The New Tenants, which won the 2009 Oscar for Best Live Action Short and In a Better World which won the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 2011 and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign film.

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, Adam's Apples, Men & Chicken, Riders of Justice, and The Last Viking.

Jensen co-wrote the film The Dark Tower with Nikolaj Arcel, Akiva Goldsman, and Jeff Pinkner, based on the Stephen King series. It was Jensen's first work on an American screenplay.

Recognition and awards American film theorist and film historian David Bordwell wrote in a 2007 article: "we can now speak of the Jensen touch -- a twinge of pathos acknowledged quietly, relying on our sympathy for the characters' bizarre frailties".

In 2024, Jensen was awarded the Ballings Særpris (Special Prize) at the Isbjørnen, by Nordisk Film Foundation. The prize commemorated the 100th birthday of Danish filmmaker Erik Balling.

Personal life Jensen married actress Line Kruse in 2008.

Filmography YearFilmDirectorWriter Notes 1996 Restless Heart Short film 1996 Ernst og lyset 1996 Davids bog 1996 Café Hector 1996 De nye lejere 1996 Ernst og lyset 1997 Wolfgang 1997 Royal Blues Actor 1998 Election Night Short film 1998 Nøglebørn 1998 On Our Own Script consultant 1998 Babyboom 1998 Albert 1999 En sjælden fugl Short film 1999 The Funeral 1999 Mifune 1999 In China They Eat Dogs 2000 Zacharias Carl Borg 2000 The King is Alive 2000 Beyond 2000 Flickering Lights 2001 Count Axel 2001 Shake It All About Actor 2001 Chop Chop Dialogue contributor 2002 Old Men in New Cars 2002 Open Hearts 2002 Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself 2003 The Green Butchers 2003 Skagerrak 2003 Stealing Rembrandt 2004 Brothers 2005 Dear Wendy Script consultant 2005 The Sun King 2005 Adam's Apples 2005 Murk 2006 After the Wedding 2006 Red Road Characters 2006 Clash of Egos 2007 With Your Permission 2007 White Night 2008 The Duchess 2008 Fear Me Not 2009 At World's End 2009 Antichrist Story supervisor 2010 In a Better World 2010 Donkeys Characters 2012 Love Is All You Need 2013 All for Two 2014 The Salvation 2014 A Second Chance 2015 Men & Chicken 2015 The Shamer's Daughter 2015 Mennesker bliver spist Script consultant 2015 Land of Mine Script consultant 2017 The Dark Tower 2017 Veni Vidi Vici TV series, script consultant 2019 Daniel 2020Abbi Fede 2020 Riders of Justice 2023 The Promised Land 2025 The Last Viking