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Anders Thomas Jensen
Known for: DirectingAnders 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).
Filmography 30
The Dark Tower
Screenplay 
Brothers
Writer 
The Promised Land
Writer 
The Duchess
Screenplay 
The Salvation
Writer 
The Last Viking
Director, Screenplay 
Adam's Apples
Director, Writer 
Riders of Justice
Director, Screenplay 
Love Is All You Need
Screenplay, Story 
Men & Chicken
Director, Writer 
After the Wedding
Screenplay, Story 
The Green Butchers
Director, Screenplay 
The Shamer's Daughter
Writer 
A Second Chance
Writer, Story 
Flickering Lights
Director, Screenplay 
Held for Ransom
Writer 
In China They Eat Dogs
Writer 
In a Better World
Screenplay, Story 
Open Hearts
Screenplay 
The King Is Alive
Writer 
Stealing Rembrandt
Screenplay 
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Screenplay 
Mifune
Writer 
Red Road
Writer 
Brothers
Writer 
Clash of Egos
Screenplay 
Sweet Dreams
Screenplay 
Too Fat Too Furious
Screenplay 
All for Two
Writer