Kristian Eidnes Andersen

{{short description|Danish film audio engineer and composer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| nationality = Danish

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| occupation = Audio engineer, composer

| years_active = 1990-present

| known_for = Antichrist

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Kristian Eidnes Andersen (born 2 July 1966) is a Danish film audio engineer and composer. He heads the department of sound design at the National Film School of Denmark.{{cite web|url=http://www.filmskolen.dk/kontakt/medarbejdere/film-manus/|title=Film & Manus - Den Danske Filmskole|work=filmskolen.dk|access-date=2015-02-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208222943/http://www.filmskolen.dk/kontakt/medarbejdere/film-manus/|archive-date=2016-12-08|url-status=dead}}

Eidnes Andersen got a degree from the National Film School of Denmark, and has been sound designer on more than 80 films.{{cite web|url=http://www.musikeren.dk/nyheder/nyhed/artikel/celloen_mikrofonen_og_den_rigtige_filmlyd/|title=MUSIKEREN: Nyhed|work=MUSIKEREN}}{{cite web|url=http://politiken.dk/kultur/filmogtv/ECE2487304/polsk-storfilm-vinder-pris-i-eu-parlamentet/|title=Polsk storfilm vinder pris i EU-Parlamentet|work=politiken.dk}} He has worked with Lars von Trier on e.g. Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves,{{cite book |author = Kati Rausch |title = Der Fall Bess McNiell: Von der Heiligen zur Hure und wieder zurück: Religion und Sex in Lars von Triers 'Breaking the Waves' |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iRD6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA156 |date = April 2009 |publisher = Diplomica Verlag |isbn = 978-3-8366-7383-9 |pages = 156– }} Manderlay,{{cite book |author = Chris Dähne |title = Die Stadtsinfonien der 1920er Jahre: Architektur zwischen Film, Fotografie und Literatur |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DLDJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA361 |date = March 2014 |publisher = transcript Verlag |isbn = 978-3-8394-2124-6 |pages = 361– }} and Antichrist.{{cite book |author = Adam Smith |title = The Rough Guide to 21st Century Cinema: The Essential Companion to 101 Modern Movies |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WT8zP8GL9JQC&pg=PA1975 |date = 4 October 2012 |publisher = Rough Guides Limited |isbn = 978-1-4093-6051-3 |pages = 1975– }}
- {{cite book |author1 = Carol Vernallis |author2 = Amy Herzog |author3 = John Richardson |title = The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XWHSAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 |year = 2013 |publisher = Oxford University Press |isbn = 978-0-19-975764-0 |pages = 123– }} For his sound in Antichrist, Eidnes Andersen received a Bodil Special Award.{{cite web |url = http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/FilmOgTv/Lars%20von%20Trier%20Blev%20vaek%20fra%20Bodil.aspx |title = Lars von Trier: Blev væk fra Bodil |work = Se og Hør |accessdate = 15 February 2015 }}
- {{cite web |url = http://www.information.dk/227835 |title = Bodil nr. 6 til Lars von Trier |work = Information |accessdate = 15 February 2015 }}

As a score composer, Eidnes Andersen has credit for more than 20 titles including von Triers Antichrist, Thomas Vinterberg's Submarino, and Per Fly's The Woman That Dreamed About a Man.