Anders Thomas Jensen

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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.

Life and career

Jensen was born in Frederiksværk. He 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 and Riders of Justice.

{{Quotation|"As there was the Lubitsch touch and the Wilder touch, we can now speak of the Jensen touch -- a twinge of pathos acknowledged quietly, relying on our sympathy for the characters' bizarre frailties."|David BordwellDavid Bordwell: Essay on Danish Cinema, in Film #55, 2007, page 18}}

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.

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"\|Year ! rowspan="2"\|Film
width=65 \|Director ! width=65 \|Writer ! scope="col" \| Notes
1996 \| Restless Heart \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|rowspan=7\| Short film
1996 \| Ernst og lyset \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
1996 \| Davids bog \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}
1996 \| Café Hector \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}
1996 \| De nye lejere \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}
1996 \| Ernst og lyset \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}
1997 \| Wolfgang \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}}
1997 \| Royal Blues \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Actor
1998 \| Election Night \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \| Short film
1998 \| Nøglebørn \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
1998 \| On Our Own \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Script consultant
1998 \| Babyboom \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
1998 \| Albert \| {{no}} \| {{yes}}{{cite book \| last=Piil \| first=Morten \| author-link=Morten Piil \| title=Gyldendals danske filmguide \| publisher=Gyldendal \| year=2008 \| isbn=978-87-02-06669-2 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caRYl94i7xUC&pg=PT21 \| language=da \| access-date=26 February 2018 \| page=21}} \|
1999 \| En sjælden fugl \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \| Short film
1999 \| The Funeral \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
1999 \| Mifune \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
1999 \| In China They Eat Dogs \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2000 \| Zacharias Carl Borg \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2000 \| The King is Alive \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2000 \| Beyond \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2000 \| Flickering Lights \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \|
2001 \| Count Axel \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2001 \| Shake It All About \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Actor
2001 \| Chop Chop \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Dialogue contributor
2002 \| Old Men in New Cars \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2002 \| Open Hearts \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2002 \| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2003 \| The Green Butchers \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \|
2003 \| Skagerrak \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2003 \| Stealing Rembrandt \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2004 \| Brothers \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2005 \| Dear Wendy \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Script consultant
2005 \| The Sun King \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2005 \| Adam's Apples \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \|
2005 \| Murk \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2006 \| After the Wedding \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2006 \| Red Road \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Characters
2006 \| Clash of Egos \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2007 \| With Your Permission \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2007 \| White Night \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2008 \| The Duchess \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2008 \| Fear Me Not \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2009 \| At World's End \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2009 \| Antichrist \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Story supervisor
2010 \| In a Better World \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2010 \| Donkeys \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Characters
2012 \| Love Is All You Need \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2013 \| All for Two \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2014 \| The Salvation \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2014 \| A Second Chance \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2015 \| Men & Chicken \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \|
2015 \| The Shamer's Daughter \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2015 \| Mennesker bliver spist \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Script consultant
2015 \| Land of Mine \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| Script consultant
2017 \| The Dark Tower \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2017 \| Veni Vidi Vici \| {{no}} \| {{no}} \| TV series, script consultant
2019 \| Daniel \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|
2020 \|Abbi Fede \| {{No}} \| {{Yes}} \|
2020 \| Riders of Justice \| {{yes}} \| {{yes}} \|
2023 \| The Promised Land \| {{no}} \| {{yes}} \|

class="wikitable sortable"

rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year

! rowspan="2"|Film

width=65 |Director

! width=65 |Writer

! scope="col" | Notes

1996

| Restless Heart

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

|rowspan=7| Short film

1996

| Ernst og lyset

| {{yes}}

1996

| Davids bog

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1996

| Café Hector

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1996

| De nye lejere

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1996

| Ernst og lyset

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1997

| Wolfgang

| {{yes}}

1997

| Royal Blues

| {{no}}

| Actor

1998

| Election Night

| {{yes}}

| Short film

1998

| Nøglebørn

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1998

| On Our Own

| {{no}}

| Script consultant

1998

| Babyboom

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1998

| Albert

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}{{cite book | last=Piil | first=Morten | author-link=Morten Piil | title=Gyldendals danske filmguide | publisher=Gyldendal | year=2008 | isbn=978-87-02-06669-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=caRYl94i7xUC&pg=PT21 | language=da | access-date=26 February 2018 | page=21}}

1999

| En sjælden fugl

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| Short film

1999

| The Funeral

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

1999

| Mifune

| {{no}}