Thomas Vinterberg

Thomas Vinterberg ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films The Celebration (1998), Submarino (2010), The Hunt (2012), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), and Another Round (2020). For Another Round he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the first Danish filmmaker nominated in the Best Director category.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and education

Vinterberg was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with Template:Ill (Sidste omgang),<ref name="Kosmorama 2007 p. 175">Template:Cite book</ref> which won the jury and producers' awards at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, and First Prize at Tel Aviv.<ref name="Hallberg Wewerka Messlinger 2001 p. 428">Template:Cite book</ref>

Career

In 1993 Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film Template:Ill,<ref name="Schneider 2007">Template:Cite book</ref> produced by Template:Ill at Nimbus Film.<ref name="Danske filminstitut 1996">Template:Cite book</ref> The film won awards at the 1994 Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, and the Toronto International Film Festival.<ref name="Danske filminstitut 1996" /> His first feature film was The Biggest Heroes (De Største Helte), a road movie that received acclaim in his native Denmark. In 1995, Vinterberg formed the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed (and also had a small acting role in) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration (Festen). As per the rules of the Dogme manifesto, he did not take a directorial credit. However, he and the film won numerous nominations and awards, including the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the turn of the century, Vinterberg participated in the experimental broadcast D-dag, where he and three other filmmakers directed broadcasts on four different channels, with the viewer able to switch between them and create their own viewing experience. A final edit was released in 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2003, he directed the apocalyptic science fiction romance-drama It's All About Love, a film he wrote, directed and produced himself over a period of five years. The film was entirely in English and featured, among others, Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, and Sean Penn. The movie did not do well, as critics and audiences found it idiosyncratic and somewhat incomprehensible. His next film, the English-language Dear Wendy (2005), scripted by Lars von Trier, had poor ticket sales in his native Denmark where it sold only 14,521 tickets.<ref name="dfi.dk 2007">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However he won the Silver George for Best Director at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.<ref name="Moscow2005">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Vinterberg then tried to retrace his roots with a smaller Danish-language production, En mand kommer hjem (2007), which also had poor ticket sales in his native Denmark, selling only 31,232 tickets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

On 1 August 2008, he directed the music video for "The Day That Never Comes", the first single off Metallica's album Death Magnetic. His 2010 film Submarino was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Berlinale 2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2012, his film The Hunt competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival<ref name="Official Selection">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="timeout">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.

In 2015, he directed Far from the Madding Crowd, an adaptation of the acclaimed Thomas Hardy novel, starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen and Tom Sturridge. Vinterberg reunited with Matthias Schoenaerts<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> in Kursk,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> a film about the Kursk submarine disaster that happened in 2000.

In 2019, Vinterberg lost his daughter Ida in a car accident while she was traveling home from Belgium with her mother. As such, he dedicated Another Round (Druk) to her, while filming much of the film in her school with her classmates.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vinterberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for the film, which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; he dedicated the latter award to Ida.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2024 Vinterberg's first foray into directing for TV was broadcast in Denmark. The seven-episode series called Families like Ours explores a near-future Denmark when the country is gradually evacuated due to rising sea levels.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1990	Sneblind	Template:Yes	Template:No	Template:Yes
1991	Brudevalsen	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
1993	Sidste omgang	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Slaget på tasken	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:No
1994	Drengen der gik baglæns	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1996	The Biggest Heroes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Template:Ill
1998	The Celebration	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	uncredited as director, written with Mogens Rukov
2003	It's All About Love	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Mogens Rukov
2005	Dear Wendy	Template:Yes	Template:No
2007	A Man Comes Home	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Mogens Rukov
2010	Submarino	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Tobias Lindholm
2012	The Hunt	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	also producer, written with Tobias Lindholm
2015	Far from the Madding Crowd	Template:Yes	Template:No	based on the book of the same name
2016	The Commune	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Tobias Lindholm
2018	Kursk	Template:Yes	Template:No	based on the book A Time to Die
2020	Another Round	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	written with Tobias Lindholm

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
2001	D-Day	Template:Yes	Template:No	Experimental film, in collaboration with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, and Lars von Trier
2024	Families like Ours	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Miniseries

Awards and honours

In April 2016, the French government appointed Vinterberg a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For his film Another Round he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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• CNN interview with Thomas Vinterberg
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• Thomas Vinterberg: About a scene by Ingmar Bergman Video interview by Louisiana Channel, 2013