Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish

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and

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. His film '' Election Night'' won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Life and career

Jensen was born in

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. He won the

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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

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he wrote the

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s for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including ''

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'' (co-written with

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), '' In China They Eat Dogs'', '' Open Hearts'', ''

Stealing Rembrandt ''Stealing Rembrandt'' (original title ''Rembrandt'') is a 2003 Danish-language action comedy film. An action comedy, A Danish/UK co-production, the film was directed by Jannik Johansen and written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Jannik Johansen. T ...

'', and '' Brothers''. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a

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: the action-comedy '' Flickering Lights'', and since then directed '' The Green Butchers,'' '' Adam's Apples'', '' Men & Chicken'' and '' Riders of Justice''. Jensen co-wrote the film '' The Dark Tower'' with

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, and Jeff Pinkner, based on the

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series. It was Jensen's first work on an American screenplay.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jensen, Anders Thomas 1972 births Directors of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners Danish male screenwriters Living people Danish film directors Danish comedy film directors People from Frederiksværk Bodil Honorary Award recipients