Nikolaj Arcel
Nikolaj Arcel ( born August 25, 1972 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. His film The Queen and the physician was in 2013 nominated Best Foreign Language Film for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in the category.
Biography
Arcel is the son of the architect Arne Arcel and the psychologist Libby Arcel. He grew up in Copenhagen. The actress Nastya Arcel is his older sister and worked in some of his movies. He attended Bernadotteskolen in Hellerup. The journalist Lotte Thorsen writes that Arcel was introverted and thoughtful as a child and turned first narrow films with the help of Star Wars figures and papier-mâché scenes. Furthermore, he had been an avid moviegoer. First, he uncritically until then Steven Spielberg's ET - The aliens have seen and seen again and again. He, who was alone, was able to identify with the protagonist and to act today his films of people who end up with something alone and then experience something that causes them to be part of a group that will solve the problems. " Old, jeg har Hvad skrevet eller instrueret, handler om folk, he alene om noget above pludselig oplever et eller andet, the GOR, at de bliver en del af s group, the løse skal problemerne. " Age of twelve he began with writing short stories and novels. When he went into the second year of high school, he turned with his friends one 90 -minute feature film based on Paul Auster's City of Glass. Auster was next to his favorite author John Irving and his dream was to win him with it for collaboration.
He got the confidence in his opinion necessary for the profession of a director but only as a singer in a student - funk band. After high school, he took a year off. The film industry intimidated him and it seemed to him that there was no place there for young people. Thorsen characterizes the Danish film industry at that time as " closed country " ( " lukket land" ), which consisted broadly of Bille August. 1994 to 1995 he attended the European Film College in Ebeltoft. There he met many people, with whom he works to this day, in addition to other screenwriters Rasmus Heisterberg. He also learned in this environment that he had talent and also it was nice to see that there were other people with the same dreams. From 1997 he studied at Den Danske Filmskole. In 2001, he completed his education. His graduation film was Woyzecks sidste symfoni and won the 2002 Grand Prix at the Festival du Court - Métrage de Clermont -Ferrand.
His first commercial film as a director is the film was completed in 2004 Königspatience - Been intrigue in Parliament ( Kongekabale ). Its success encouraged him to make a Spielberg - like film, which should be " a tribute to the ET - generation " ( "en hyldest til ' ET' generations ' ) a. He used the next three years to the fantasy film Island of Lost Souls ( De fortabte sjæles ø ), which, however, is not tantamount to his ideas: " For the film, I did not use my brain, it's got only my heart. And I will not again. A film must have an action that is important enough to be told. " ( " Jeg manglede hjernen i owned the film- og havde kun hjertet i the. Og det vil jeg ikke. Skal The være noget vigtigt at fortælle. " ) The next film was much more personal, because he also had to be not a great success as Kongekabale who decided whether he ever again allowed to make a movie. The comedy The Truth About Men ( Sandheden om mænd ) was created against the background that both Arcel and his screenwriter Heisterberg had just ended a long relationship shortly after they had decided to this together with children, home and marriage ( " [b ] Orn hus og to choose ægteskab "). By Rosalinde Mynster, who plays the female lead in the film, he began a relationship in early 2009.
Arcel wrote on the basis of Jussi Adler - Olsen detective novel pity the screenplay for the film starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas in the lead role.
Filmography (selection)
- 2001: Woyzeck sidste symfoni as a screenwriter and director
- 2002: Climbing Ida ( Klatretøsen ) as a screenwriter
- 2004: Königspatience - intrigue in Parliament ( Kongekabale ) as a screenwriter and director
- 2007: Island of Lost Souls ( De fortabte sjæles ø ) as a screenwriter and director
- 2007: Fight Girl ( Fighter ) as a screenwriter
- 2009: blindness (men som hatar kvinnor ) as a screenwriter
- 2010: The Truth about Men ( Sandheden om mænd ) as a screenwriter and director
- 2011: Melancholia as a screenwriter
- 2012: The Queen and the physician (En Kongelig affair ) as a screenwriter and director
Awards and Prizes (selection )
In 2002 he won with his short film Woyzeck sidste symfoni the Grand Prix at the Festival du Court - Métrage de Clermont -Ferrand. Against 18 other Danish films could Königspatience 2005 - intrigue in Parliament assert and got the Bodil for Best Danish film awarded. Two Roberts was presented to him in 2010 for The truth about men: one in the category director of the year, the other for the screenplay of the year, which was created in collaboration with Rasmus Heisterberg. The Queen and the physician was in 2013 nominated Best Foreign Language Film for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in the category. At the International Film Festival in Berlin 2012 Arcel won together with Rasmus Heisterberg with The Queen and the personal physician of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. When Robert Ceremony 2013 Arcel again won in the category director of the year.