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Anders Thomas Jensen was born on 6th April 1972 in Frederiksværk on Sjælland in Denmark to Carl Benny Jensen and Kirsten Jensen (born Sørensen). He attended the high school in Frederiksværk from 1988 to 1991. In 1990 while still in high school, he wrote and directed 10 år på bagen - 3 år i skyggen (1990) (TV).

He made his film debut in 1996 with the short films Café Hector (1996), David's Book (1997), Hvileløse hjerte (1996) and the Academy Award nominated Ernst & Lyset (1996), which he also directed. The following year Jensen wrote and directed Wolfgang (1997), which also earned an Academy Award nomination for best short film. He also made a rare appearance in front of the camera in Royal Blues (1998). Baby Doom (1998) and Albert (1998), both released in 1998, were the first feature films with screenplay co-written by Jensen.

After being nominated two previous years Jensen finally won in 1999 an Oscar for best short film with Election Night (1998). He followed it with w

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Anders Thomas Jensen

Thomas won an Oscar for Best Short Film 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 wrote the script for AFTER THE WEDDING which was nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign bio in 2007. His THE NEW TENANTSwhich won the 2009 Oscar for Best Live Action Short, and IN A BETTER WORLD, for which he wrote the screenplay, won the Oscar for Best Foreign film in 2011 and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film.

His directing credits include FLICKERING LIGHTS, THE GREEN BUTCHERS, ADAM’S APPLES, dock & CHICKEN and sleeper hit RIDERS OF JUSTICE.

He recently worked on the RIDERS OF JUSTICE remake for Lionsgate, co-writing with Nikolaj Arcel with whom he originated the story. And he is currently developing alongside Arcel a limited series THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE for Apple, with Wildside and StudioCanal producing and Antonio Banderas attached to star.

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Anders Thomas Jensen

Danish film director

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

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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