Film Director

Joachim Trier

Danish-Norwegian film director and screenwriter (born 1974)

1974 - today

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His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2024). Joachim Trier is the 1,222nd most popular film director (down from 1,216th in 2024), the 555th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 536th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Danish Film Director.

Joachim Trier is most famous as a Danish-Norwegian filmmaker renowned for his introspective, character-driven films that often explore themes of melancholy, identity, and human relationships, with standout works including the Oslo trilogy—Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011), and his international breakout The Worst Person in the World (2021), which earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and launched Renate Reinsve to fame with her Best Actress win at Cannes—alongside Thelma (2017) and his latest, Sentimental Value (2025), a critically acclaimed drama starring Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård that has garnered massive awards buzz. His films, frequently co-written with Eskil Vogt and set in Oslo (which he has helped put on the cinematic map as a vibrant, lived-in backdrop), have earned him prizes like the Grand Prix at Cannes for Sentimental Value and multiple nominations across major festivals. Surprisingly, as a third-generation filmmaker from a creative family—his grandfather was a notable Norwegian director and jazz musician, and his father a sound technician—Trier started as a teenage skateboarding champion who filmed and produced his own skate videos before shifting to formal film studies at the National Film and Television School in the UK, where he honed his craft despite beginning later than many peers and drawing early inspiration from visual stylists like Antonioni and De Palma.

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Joachim Trier's Wikipedia page drew 1.3M views over the past year, 6.2× the average among Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Joachim Trier ranks 1,222 out of 2,296. Before him are Basil Dearden, Freddie Francis, Nelly Kaplan, Lee Tamahori, Buddy Van Horn, and John Grierson. After him are Jaume Collet-Serra, Busby Berkeley, Colin Higgins, Luciano Emmer, Sergey Urusevsky, and Stefan Ruzowitzky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Joachim Trier ranks 179. Before him are Moon So-ri, Vanessa Blue, Johanna Sällström, Chris Sununu, Havoc, and Miloš Vučević. After him are Hiromasa Tokioka, Tiffani Thiessen, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jenna Fischer, Tricia Helfer, and Marc Gené.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Joachim Trier ranks 555 out of 1,230. Before him are Peter Mygind (1963), Andreas Christensen (1996), Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (1995), Henning Christophersen (1939), Charles Schlee (1873), and Hans Aabech (1948). After him are Thomas Helveg (1971), John Sivebæk (1961), John Danielsen (1939), Kurt Helmudt (1943), Niels Helveg Petersen (1939), and Axel Andersen (1891).

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Among Film Directors In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Joachim Trier ranks 16. Before him are Urban Gad (1879), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Jørgen Leth (1937), August Blom (1869), and Lone Scherfig (1959). After him are Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), Anders Thomas Jensen (1972), Ole Bornedal (1959), Niels Arden Oplev (1961), Nikolaj Arcel (1972), and Per Fly (1960).

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