27/09/2005

Anders Thomas Jensen’s comedy Adam’s Apples [+see also:
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interview: Anders Thomas Jensen
interview: Mads Mikkelsen
interview: Tivi Magnusson
film profile], the biggest local hit so far in Denmark with over 355,000 admissions since last April, has just been chosen as the Danish entry for the 2006 Oscars nominations in the Best Foreign language film category. The decision was taken by an industry committee including Filmmaker Linda Wendel, film producer Per Holst, film critic Morten Piil and the Danish Film Institute’s Head of Administration Henning Camre, Head of Production and Development Jørgen Ramskov and Head of Distribution Anders Geertsen.

33-year-old writer/director Thomas Jensen is already an ‘habitué’ of the Hollywood Academy Awards: in 1999 he won an Oscar for his short film Election Night after having been nominated twice in the same category for his short films Ernst & Lyset in 1996 and Wolfgang in 1997. Those three shorts as well as the three feature films directed so far by Thomas Jensen, Flickering Lights (2000), The Green Butchers [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (2003) and now Adam’s Apples are M & M Productions.

As a writer only, Thomas Jensen has been associated to many successful Danish films or co-productions of the last decade such as the Dogma films Mifune and The King Is Alive or Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself [+see also:
trailer
film profile]. He is also a regular collaborator to popular Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier for whom he wrote the celebrated Open Hearts [+see also:
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film profile], Brothers [+see also:
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film profile] and the upcoming After The Wedding.

With Adam’s Apples, Thomas Jensen is at his best in the comedy genre with his favourite actors Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen in the lead. The film, a modern religious fable about belief and struggle between good and evil, recently screened at the Toronto Film Festival and will next appear in the programme of the Sundance Film Festival in January. Nordisk Film handles international sales.

Denmark has already won twice an Oscar for Best Foreign language film: in 1987 for Gabriel Axel’s Babette’s Feast and in 1988 for Bille August’s Pelle The Conqueror. The 2006 Oscars nominations for the Best foreign language film will be announced on January 31st, and the official ceremony will take place in Hollywood on March 5, 2006.