FILM DIRECTOR

Nicolas Winding Refn

1970 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolas Winding Refn has received more than 3,655,913 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Nicolas Winding Refn is the 874th most popular film director (down from 690th in 2019), the 417th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 342nd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Film Director.

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  • 3.7M

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  • 56.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 874 out of 2,041. Before him are Jeannot Szwarc, Charles Crichton, Michael Winner, Jack Clayton, Yevgeni Bauer, and Esfir Shub. After him are Jonathan Nolan, Ennio de Concini, Elia Suleiman, Martin McDonagh, Ivan Ivanov-Vano, and Alex Proyas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 109. Before him are Albert Ferrer, Võ Văn Thưởng, Taraji P. Henson, Alain Boghossian, Nikola Gruevski, and Luis Miguel. After him are Martin McDonagh, Petra Mede, Elizabeth Mitchell, Ekrem İmamoğlu, Jonah Falcon, and Peter Aerts.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 417 out of 1,032. Before him are Robert Jacobsen (1912), Jacob Ellehammer (1871), Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), Viggo Johansen (1851), Thomas Bo Larsen (1963), and Jan Heintze (1963). After him are Gustav Winckler (1925), Karl Madsen (1855), Thure Lindhardt (1974), Steen Steensen Blicher (1782), Anders Hejlsberg (1960), and Nicklas Bendtner (1988).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 12. Before him are Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Erik Balling (1924), Urban Gad (1879), and Benjamin Christensen (1879). After him are Jørgen Leth (1937), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), August Blom (1869), Lone Scherfig (1959), Niels Arden Oplev (1961), and Anders Thomas Jensen (1972).

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