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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 found great success early in his career directing the Pusher trilogy (1996–2005), the crime drama Bronson (2008), and the adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009). In 2011 he gained newfound stardom directing 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 3,429,764 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Nicolas Winding Refn is the 692nd most popular film director (up from 765th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Film Director.

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  • 28

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  • 5.45

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  • 2.69

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 692 out of 1,581. Before him are Wolfgang Becker, Aleksandr Ptushko, Sergio Sollima, Isabel Coixet, Chang Cheh, and Jaromil Jireš. After him are Fred Niblo, John Stagliano, James Mangold, David O. Russell, Vilgot Sjöman, and Rudolph Maté.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 77. Before him are Djalminha, Yigal Amir, Shemar Moore, Justin Chambers, Vadim Krasnoselsky, and Queen Latifah. After him are Shonda Rhimes, Petra Mede, Elizabeth Mitchell, Warwick Davis, Mehmet Scholl, and Igor Strelkov.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 344 out of 893. Before him are Kim Larsen (1945), Svend Asmussen (1916), Erik Eriksen (1902), Hans Wegner (1914), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1524), and Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562). After him are Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Hans Hedtoft (1903), Cecil Bødker (1927), Simon Kjær (1989), Benjamin Christensen (1879), and Erik Balling (1924).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn ranks 8. Before him are Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889), Bille August (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), and Henning Carlsen (1927). After him are Benjamin Christensen (1879), Erik Balling (1924), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Jørgen Leth (1937), August Blom (1869), and Urban Gad (1879).

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