Jensen 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 China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers''. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a
feature film: the action-comedy
Flickering Lights, and since then directed
The Green Butchers, ''
Adam's Apples, Men & Chicken, Riders of Justice and The Last Viking''. Jensen co-wrote the film
The Dark Tower with
Nikolaj Arcel,
Akiva Goldsman, and
Jeff Pinkner, based on the
Stephen King series. It was Jensen's first work on an American screenplay. ==Accolades==