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Anders Thomas Jensen

Writer, Director, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn April 6, 1972 (53 years)
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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Men & Chicken
  • A Second Chance
  • 398 Days

Known For

  • Brothers
  • The Dark Tower
  • Riders of Justice
  • Antichrist
  • Adam's Apples
  • The Duchess
  • In a Better World
  • The Green Butchers
  • Flickering Lights
  • In China They Eat Dogs
  • The Salvation
  • After the Wedding
  • The Promised Land
  • Men & Chicken
  • Love Is All You Need
  • Red Road
  • Brothers
  • Open Hearts
  • Old Men in New Cars
  • Mifune
  • Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
  • A Second Chance
  • Murk
  • Too Fat Too Furious

Anders Thomas Jensen Filmography

2025
The Last Viking · as Screenplay
2023
2020
Riders of Justice · as Screenplay
2020
Abbi Fede · as Original Film Writer
2019
2019
After the Wedding · as Original Film Writer
2017
The Dark Tower · as Screenplay
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
Tomgang (TV Series)
2013
2012
Love Is All You Need · as Screenplay
2011
2010
In a Better World · as Screenplay
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
The Duchess · as Screenplay
2007
2007
With Your Permission · as Screenplay
2006
2006
Clash of Egos · as Screenplay
2005
2005
2005
2005
Too Fat Too Furious · as Screenplay
2004
2003
The Green Butchers · as Screenplay
2003
Skagerrak · as Screenplay
2002
Rembrandt · as Screenplay
2002
2002
Open Hearts · as Screenplay
2002
Old Men in New Cars · as Screenplay
2001
Count Axel · as Screenplay
2000
2000
2000
1999
1999
1998
Albert · as Screenplay
1998
1998
1997
Wolfgang · as Screenplay
1997
1996
1996
Café Hector · as Screenplay
1996

2023
Agent (2023) (TV Series) · as Robert Gæst
2022
Dansk films bedste (TV Series) · as Sig Selv
2020
2020
2001
Shake It All About · as Drunk Customer At Frederik's Bar
1998
Royal Blues · as Torben

2007
Aftenshowet (TV Series) · as Self (from Lyngby)
2005
Zulu Awards '05 · as Self
2005
Made In Hollywood (TV Series) · as Self
2003
1999
The 71st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner

2024
Victoria må dø · as Story Consultant
2021
The Marco Effect · as Script Consultant
2019
Between Us (TV Series) · as Script Consultant
2019
Minkavlerne (TV Series) · as Script Consultant
2015
People Get Eaten · as Script Consultant
2011
Those Who Kill: Shadow of the Past · as Production Manager
2009
Antichrist · as Story Supervisor
2006
After the Wedding · as Story
2001
Chop Chop · as Dialogue Contributor
2000
Flickering Lights · as Author

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