---
name: "Thomas Vinterberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/thomas-vinterberg"
fi1m_id: "thomas-vinterberg"
imdb_id: "nm0899121"
tmdb_id: 4453
wikidata_id: "Q314287"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "19 May 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-30T20:01:04.921248+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."
---

# Thomas Vinterberg

## Identity

Thomas Vinterberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/thomas-vinterberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** thomas-vinterberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0899121
- **TMDB ID:** 4453
- **Wikidata ID:** Q314287
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Vinterberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314287, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899121/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4453

Director and writer. Born 19 May 1969 in Frederiksberg, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 19 May 1969, Frederiksberg, Danmark
- **Active:** 1998–present
- **Also known as:** 토마스 빈터베르그, 토마스 빈터베르크, Томас Винтерберг, 토마스 빈터버그
- **Frequently works with:** [Thomas Bo Larsen](https://film.one/person/thomas-bo-larsen.md), [Mads Mikkelsen](https://film.one/person/mads-mikkelsen.md), [Sisse Graum Jørgensen](https://film.one/person/sisse-graum-jrgensen.md), [Tobias Lindholm](https://film.one/person/tobias-lindholm.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 74 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $40m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Vinterberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314287, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899121/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4453

## Streaming the US now

- **The Criterion Channel:** [*The Celebration*](https://film.one/film/the-celebration.md) (85)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Hunt*](https://film.one/film/the-hunt.md) (82)
- **AMC+:** [*Another Round*](https://film.one/film/another-round.md) (80)

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

## Fi1m on Thomas Vinterberg

> Thomas Vinterberg makes family gatherings and small communities uncomfortable places to be, and we rate him most when he lets the actors show why. His appetite for confrontation is gripping; his insistence on another shock can be wearing.

In *The Celebration* (1998), the relatives keep trying to behave as though the birthday party can still be pleasant. Vinterberg gives us time to watch them listen, evade and wait for their turn to speak. We recommend him for this attention to how people behave together, which makes even an attempt at good manners uncomfortable to watch. Ulrich Thomsen and Thomas Bo Larsen make the effort to contain themselves absorbing.

We laughed at the determination to preserve the occasion, then felt sick because family abuse was being raised at a gathering intended to honour the father. Vinterberg lets the farce continue without making the suffering seem negligible. The screenplay, written with Mogens Rukov, is less convincing when it reaches for another shock, and a few confrontations feel arranged for our benefit. The actors have to work against that pressure to keep the family's behaviour credible.

*The Celebration* was the first Dogme 95 feature; Vinterberg had co-founded the movement with Lars von Trier in 1995. The early work used handheld camerawork, natural sound and location shooting with minimal technical intervention. These choices can help the performances feel immediate, but the camera in *The Celebration* is sometimes so restless that it competes with the people we want to watch.

The move into English-language films brought *It's All About Love* (2003) and *Dear Wendy* (2005), with less consistent results. *Submarino* (2010) and *The Hunt* (2012) marked the return to Danish-language drama. In *The Hunt*, the pressure comes from false accusation and community hysteria, rather than a family determined to keep a celebration intact.

He continued to alternate Danish dramas with international work, including *Far from the Madding Crowd* (2015) and *Kursk* (2018). *Another Round* (2020) takes up mid-life and alcohol, returning to his recurring subject of ordinary men under pressure. Begin with *The Celebration*; anyone hoping for a comforting family drama should make other arrangements.

## Biography

Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director and screenwriter. With Lars von Trier, he co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in 1995, which promoted simplified, location-shot filmmaking without artificial effects or props.

He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1993. His breakthrough came with *The Celebration* (1998), which he directed and co-wrote; the film won the Jury Prize at Cannes and was the first official Dogme 95 production.

Vinterberg is also known for *The Hunt* (2012) and *Another Round* (2020), the latter of which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; he received a nomination for Best Director for the same film.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Another Round* (2020), Fi1m 80, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/another-round.md)
- *The Hunt* (2012), Fi1m 82, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunt.md)
- *The Celebration* (1998), Fi1m 85, as Taxi Driver (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-celebration.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Pod Parou* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *Families Like Ours* (2024), series, Director, Creator
- *De største øjeblikke* (2020), series, as Sig selv
- *The Idiots Who Started The Party* (2020), as Sig selv
- *Another Round* (2020), Writer, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/another-round.md)
- *Kursk* (2018), Director
- *The Commune* (2016), Director, Screenplay
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (2015), Director
- *The Hunt* (2012), Director, Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunt.md)
- *Submarino* (2010), Director, Screenplay
- *When a Man Comes Home* (2007), Director
- *Dear Wendy* (2005), Director
- *It's All About Love* (2003), Screenplay, Director
- *Wag the Dogma* (2001), Actor
- *blur | The Best Of* (2000), Director
- *D-Day* (2000), Director, Writer
- *The Celebration* (1998), as Taxi Driver (uncredited) · Director, Screenplay, Idea — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-celebration.md)
- *The Biggest Heroes* (1996), Writer, Director
- *The Boy Who Walked Backwards* (1995), Writer, Director
- *Forsmåelse* (1995), as Thomas Vinterberg
- *Hit the Bag* (1993), Writer, Director
- *Last Round* (1993), Screenplay, Director
- *Kennedy*, series, Director, Executive Producer

## Gallery

- ![Thomas Vinterberg](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-0bbcb017a38e.jpg) Thomas Vinterberg — Thomas_Vinterberg_Berlinale_2010.jpg: Siebbi
derivative work: César, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Thomas_Vinterberg_Berlinale_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Alexandra Rapaport and Thomas Vinterberg presented The Hunt at Film i Väst's press lunch in Cannes. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-68e0b2aa5fc4.jpg) Alexandra Rapaport and Thomas Vinterberg presented The Hunt at Film i Väst's press lunch in Cannes. (2012) — Gus Kaage, Film i Väst, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Alexandra_Rapaport_Thomas_Vinterberg_Cannes_2012.JPG/1280px-Alexandra_Rapaport_Thomas_Vinterberg_Cannes_2012.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm och Morten Kaufmann, vinnare av Nordiska rådets filmpris 2010. Keywords: Film Prize](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-77a0204367cd.jpg) Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm och Morten Kaufmann, vinnare av Nordiska rådets filmpris 2010. Keywords: Film Prize — Magnus Fröderberg, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Thomas_Vinterberg%2C_Tobias_Lindholm_och_Morten_Kaufmann%2C_vinnare_av_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2010.jpg/1280px-Thomas_Vinterberg%2C_Tobias_Lindholm_och_Morten_Kaufmann%2C_vinnare_av_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm och Morten Kaufmann, vinnare av Nordiska rådets filmpris 2010. Keywords: Film Prize](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-ce801f04b5e4.jpg) Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm och Morten Kaufmann, vinnare av Nordiska rådets filmpris 2010. Keywords: Film Prize — Magnus Fröderberg, CC BY 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Thomas_Vinterberg%2C_Tobias_Lindholm_och_Morten_Kaufmann%2C_vinnare_av_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2010_%281%29.jpg/1280px-Thomas_Vinterberg%2C_Tobias_Lindholm_och_Morten_Kaufmann%2C_vinnare_av_Nordiska_radets_filmpris_2010_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Thomas Vinterberg](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-d716f46e1c52.jpg) Thomas Vinterberg — Image via TMDB
- ![Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg. (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-75e2c1a91556.jpg) Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg. (2010) — Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Thomas_Vinterberg_Berlinale_2010.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Thomas Vinterberg at 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. (2005)](https://film.one/media/person/87848/gallery-7b90620cdf23.jpg) Thomas Vinterberg at 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. (2005) — che (Please credit as "Petr Novák, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside Wikimedia projects.), CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Thomas_Vinterberg_KVIFF.jpg/1280px-Thomas_Vinterberg_KVIFF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2021: Best Director (nominated), for *Another Round*

### Other awards — 11 won, 5 nominated

- Nordic Honorary Dragon Award 2025: Nordic Honorary Dragon Award (won)
- European Film Award for Best Director 2020: European Film Award for Best Director (won), for *Another Round*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2020: European Film Award for Best Film (won), for *Another Round*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2020: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (won), for *Another Round*
- European University Film Award 2020: European University Film Award (nominated), for *Another Round*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2017: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Commune*
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2016: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (won)
- Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog 2015: Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (won)
- European Film Award for Best Director 2012: European Film Award for Best Director (nominated), for *The Hunt*
- European Film Award for Best Film 2012: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *The Hunt*
- European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2012: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (won), for *The Hunt*
- European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award 2008: European Film Academy Achievement in World Cinema Award (won)
- Silver George for Best Director 2005: Silver George for Best Director (won), for *Dear Wendy*
- European Film Award for Best Film 1998: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *The Celebration*
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year 1998: European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year (won), for *The Celebration*
- Niels Prize 1998: Niels Prize (won)

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

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