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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter. His breakthrough work was the short film ''Film/{{Election Night|1998}}'', which netted the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm in 1998.

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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter. His breakthrough work was the short film ''Film/{{Election Night|1998}}'', which netted the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm in 1998.
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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies, with heavily elements of both {{Bathos}} and {{Drama}}, about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.

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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies, with heavily elements of both {{Bathos}} and {{Drama}}, {{Drama|tropes}}, about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.
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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies, with heavily elements of {{Drama}}, about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.

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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies, with heavily elements of both {{Bathos}} and {{Drama}}, about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.
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* ''Riders of Justice'' ''Film/RidersOfJustice'' (2020)
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* ''Guardians of Justice'' (2020)

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* ''Guardians ''Riders of Justice'' (2020)
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* ''Guardians of Justice'' (2020)
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* ''Film/{{Wolfgang}}'' (1997)
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* ''[[Film/TheDarkTower2017 The Dark Tower]]'' (2017)

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* ''[[Film/TheDarkTower2017 The Dark Tower]]'' (2017)(2017) (co-writer)
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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter. His breakthrough work was the short film ''Election Night'', which netted the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm in 1998.

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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter. His breakthrough work was the short film ''Election Night'', ''Film/{{Election Night|1998}}'', which netted the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm in 1998.



* ''Film/ElectionNight'' (1998)

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* ''Election Night'' (1998)

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* ''Film/TheNewTenants'' (2009)(short film)
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As a screenwriter, Jensen has also had his hand in many dramatic productions, being a frequent co-writer on many of director Creator/SusanneBier's films.

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As a screenwriter, Jensen has also had his hand in many purely dramatic productions, being a frequent co-writer on many of director Creator/SusanneBier's films.
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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies with heavily elements of {{Drama}} about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.

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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies Comed|y}}ies, with heavily elements of {{Drama}} {{Drama}}, about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.
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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.

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His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies with heavily elements of {{Drama}} about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.
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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter.

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Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter.
screenwriter. His breakthrough work was the short film ''Election Night'', which netted the UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestLiveActionShortFilm in 1998.
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->''"As there was the Lubitsch touch and the Wilder touch, we can now speak of the Jensen touch -- a twinge of pathos acknowledged quietly, relying on our sympathy for the characters' bizarre frailties."''
-->--  '''David Bordwell'''

Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish film director and (quite prolific) screenwriter.

His SignatureStyle are dense {{Black Comed|y}}ies about people living on the fringes of mainstream society. His protagonists tend to be severely flawed human beings, often with more than one extremely ugly side to their personality, but they often somehow manage to be sympathetic and even sometimes even endearing characters in spite of this.

As a screenwriter, Jensen has also had his hand in many dramatic productions, being a frequent co-writer on many of director Creator/SusanneBier's films.

!!Selected Filmography
!!!As director and writer:
* ''Election Night'' (1998)
* ''Film/FlickeringLights'' (2000)
* ''Film/TheGreenButchers'' (2003)
* ''Film/AdamsApples'' (2005)
* ''Film/MenAndChicken'' (2015)
!!!As writer:
* ''Film/InChinaTheyEatDogs'' (1999)
* ''Film/WilburWantsToKillHimself'' (2002)
* ''[[Film/Brothers2004 Brothers]]'' (2004)
* ''Film/AfterTheWedding'' (2006)
* ''Film/TheDuchess'' (2008)
* ''Film/{{Antichrist}}'' (2009) (story supervisor)
* ''Film/InABetterWorld'' (2010)
* ''Film/TheSalvation'' (2014)
* ''[[Literature/TheShamerChronicles The Shamer's Daughter]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Film/TheDarkTower2017 The Dark Tower]]'' (2017)
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