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Nicolas Winding Refn

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Nicolas Winding Refn (Danish: [ˈne̝kolɑs ˈve̝nte̝ŋ ˈʁæfn̩]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011 he directed the action drama film Drive (2011) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolas Winding Refn is the 909th most popular film director (down from 874th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 417th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Danish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 909 out of 2,041. Before him are Aleksander Ford, Piotr Szulkin, Erika Lust, Wanda Jakubowska, Philippe Rousselot, and Yoshishige Yoshida. After him are Jean Becker, Mary Lambert, Benjamin Christensen, Cristian Mungiu, Oldřich Lipský, and Barry Ackroyd.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 131. Before him are Thomas Lennon, Sonny Anderson, Julia Quinn, Yoo Young-chul, Masahiro Ota, and Louis Koo. After him are Paul Potts, Shonda Rhimes, Gabrielle Anwar, Naomi Klein, Teemu Selänne, and Sheri Moon Zombie.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 444 out of 1,032. Before him are MØ (1988), Greta Andersen (1927), Bodil Joensen (1944), Steen Steensen Blicher (1782), Carl Theodor Zahle (1866), and Thomas Bo Larsen (1963). After him are Pia Kjærsgaard (1947), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Axel Schandorff (1925), Joachim Ernest, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (1595), Kurt Nielsen (1930), and Niels Neergaard (1854).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Erik Balling (1924), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), and Urban Gad (1879). After him are Benjamin Christensen (1879), Jørgen Leth (1937), August Blom (1869), Lone Scherfig (1959), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), and Anders Thomas Jensen (1972).

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