---
name: "Janus Metz Pedersen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/janus-metz"
fi1m_id: "janus-metz"
imdb_id: "nm2178458"
tmdb_id: 118606
wikidata_id: "Q6155953"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 September 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-22T01:58:12.794467+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Janus Metz Pedersen

## Identity

Janus Metz Pedersen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/janus-metz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** janus-metz
- **IMDb ID:** nm2178458
- **TMDB ID:** 118606
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6155953
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Metz_Pedersen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6155953, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2178458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118606

Director. Born 27 September 1974 in Denmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 27 September 1974, Denmark
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** Janus Metz, 야누스 메츠
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Metz_Pedersen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6155953, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2178458/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/118606

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Andor*](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) (86)
- **HBO Max:** [*True Detective*](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Janus Metz Pedersen is a Danish film and television director. He holds a master's degree in communication and international development studies from Roskilde University and began his career as a documentary researcher and filmmaker.

His credits include the documentaries *Armadillo* (2010) and *Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story* (2018), the feature films *Borg vs McEnroe* (2017) and *All the Old Knives* (2022), and episodes of the series *True Detective* (2015), *ZeroZeroZero* (2020) and *Andor* (2025). He is attached to direct the upcoming film *Unabomber*.

Metz received a Directors Guild of America nomination for his direction of an episode of *Andor*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, lex.dk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Andor* (2022), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *True Detective* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *UNABOMBER* (2026), Director — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/unabomber.md)
- *Rescue* (2026), Screenplay
- *Andor* (2022), series, Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md)
- *All the Old Knives* (2022), Director
- *ZeroZeroZero* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Heartbound* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Borg vs McEnroe* (2017), Director
- *Det korte liv* (2015), Director, Writer
- *True Detective* (2014), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-detective.md)
- *The Expedition to the End of the World* (2013), Writer
- *Rupture* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Armadillo* (2010), Director
- *Fishing for Love* (2007), Director

## Gallery

- ![Janus Metz at a screening of documentary Armadillo in Oaxaca, Mexico, on 2011. Picture by JLV / Festival Ambulante.](https://film.one/media/person/46574/gallery-a45b4d65aa47.jpg) Janus Metz at a screening of documentary Armadillo in Oaxaca, Mexico, on 2011. Picture by JLV / Festival Ambulante. — JLV / Festival Ambulante, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Janus_Metz.jpg/1280px-Janus_Metz.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Janus Metz Pedersen](https://film.one/media/person/46574/gallery-5a660c161419.jpg) Janus Metz Pedersen — JLV / Festival Ambulante, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Janus_Metz_cropped.jpg/1280px-Janus_Metz_cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2018: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Borg McEnroe*
- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2010: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *Armadillo*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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