Anders 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 liveaction 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 Mifunes Last Song cowritten with Søren KraghJacobsen 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 actioncomedy Flickering Lights and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adams Apples In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award 1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film