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Encyclopedia > Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen (born April 6, 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Asserbo Castle ruins (2004). ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...


Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night (da:Valgaften). He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (da:Ernst & lyset) (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974. ...


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. A millennium (pl. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... Blockbuster, as applied to film or theater, is a very popular and/or monetarily-successful production. ... Mifunes Last Song (Danish: Mifunes sidste sang Swedish: Mifune), 1999, is the third film to be made according to the Dogme 95 rules. ... Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (born March 2, 1947 in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. ... Susanne Biers gripping drama about a soldier (Ulrich Thomsen) who is in a helicopter crash and is believed to be dead. ...


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. A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Flickering Lights (Danish: Blinkende Lygter) is a Danish action-comedy from 2000 by Anders Thomas Jensen. ... The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere) is a 2003 Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Line Kruse, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. ... Adams Apples (Danish: Adams æbler) is a 2005 Danish movie, directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. ...


In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film). Nordisk Film is an Egmont electronic media production and distribution group that employs 1,090 people in six countries. ... ISO 4217 Code DKK User(s) Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands (coins only in the latter case) Inflation rate 1. ... Nordisk Film is an Egmont electronic media production and distribution group that employs 1,090 people in six countries. ...


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Playing with the Medium (2087 words)
Anders Thomas Jensen is a 30-year-old, self-taught scriptwriter, director and Oscar winner who has written a dozen feature films and directed two of his own since his debut in the mid-'90s.
It is also correct that the 30-year-old, self-taught Anders Thomas Jensen, who was never accepted by the National Film School, has left his unmistakable imprint on almost a dozen significant feature films and a handful of shorts after taking the film industry by storm in the mid-'90s.
Anders Thomas Jensen was also looking for something to throw himself into that he could figuratively break his neck on in the process, as he puts it, by making the film's main characters as disagreeable as possible and then try to get the audience to sympathise with them.
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