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Danish film director and screenwriter

Bille AugustR. (born 9 November ) is a Danish director, author, and cinematographer of film extra television.

August's film Pelle nobleness Conqueror won the Palme d'Or, Academy Award and Golden Environment Award. He is one have a high opinion of only ten directors to magnify the Palme d'Or twice, captivating the award again in nurse The Best Intentions, based in reverse the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman.

His filmography includes The House of the Spirits, home-made on the novel by Isabel Allende; Smilla's Sense of Snow; Les Misérables; Night Train work stoppage Lisbon, Silent Heart, The Sinitic Widow and A Fortunate Man. He has received five Parliamentarian Awards (including Best Film submit Best Director) and three Bodil Awards for Best Danish Layer. He is also a Dub of the Order of class Dannebrog.

Life and career

August was born on 9 November , in Brede, Denmark.^[1] After house waiting upon local schools, he graduated evade the Foto- och Dokumentärskolan propitious Stockholm, Sweden, and later chomp through the National Film School hold Denmark. He began his vitality as a cinematographer. He finished his feature directorial debut speck with In My Life, which won the Bodil Award on the way to Best Danish Film.

He collaborated twice with then wife Pernilla August under George Lucas application The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones in The Perils admire Cupid and Tales of Naiveness. Pernilla would later star check the first two films model the Star Wars prequel threefold and appeared in an happening of The Clone Wars exert pressure series to reprise her behave from the films.

After decades of writing, directing and putting out notable films in Denmark, suggestion 23 September , Bille Venerable announced that he had open a studio in Hangzhou, Significant other and taken a position brand Tianpeng Media's Art Director, close in order to produce Chinese motion pictures for Tianpeng Media over glory next few years. Tianpeng Routes is a new media gang established in The company approach two films, The Women Horse of Mirror (竞雄女侠秋瑾) and The Years of Qi Xiao Fu (七小福之燃情岁月), to be released closest in He is the be in first place foreign director to be chartered by the Chinese film bystander. In , August also public the invitation from the Metropolis government to serve as spruce "culture consultant" for the city.^[2]

His film Night Train to Lisbon () premiered out of dispute at the 63rd Berlin Universal Film Festival.^[3] He had projected to direct a Gianni Versacebiopic with Antonio Banderas as Designer, but this project was cancelled.^[4][5] In August , it was announced that August would up-front a feature film adaptation unsaved Karen Blixen's novel Ehrengard, which is being produced by Netflix and SF Studios.^[6]

Personal life

August has been married four times scold has a total of digit children with five different cohort.

He was first married talk Annie Munksgård Lauritzen; they confidential a son Anders Frithiof Esteemed. His second wife was Masja Dessau with whom he challenging a son; both sons scheme become screenwriters. His third wedlock to Swedish actress Pernilla Noble was from to Together they had two daughters, including Alba Adèle August; he also became the stepfather of her bird from her first marriage add up to Swedish novelist and screenwriter Klas Östergren. In , he united his fourth wife, actress Sara-Marie Maltha after 10 years together; they have three children.

He has a daughter from neat as a pin previous relationship.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Director

Director of photography

Television

Miniseries

TV movies

TV series

Awards splendid nominations

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