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name: "Tobias Lindholm"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tobias-lindholm"
fi1m_id: "tobias-lindholm"
imdb_id: "nm2105585"
tmdb_id: 141883
wikidata_id: "Q246996"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "5 July 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-03T02:56:51.108906+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."
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# Tobias Lindholm

## Identity

Tobias Lindholm

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tobias-lindholm
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tobias-lindholm
- **IMDb ID:** nm2105585
- **TMDB ID:** 141883
- **Wikidata ID:** Q246996
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Lindholm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2105585/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141883

Writer and director. Born 5 July 1977 in Næstved, Danmark.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 5 July 1977, Næstved, Danmark
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 2 directing, 3 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Mads Mikkelsen](https://film.one/person/mads-mikkelsen.md), [Sisse Graum Jørgensen](https://film.one/person/sisse-graum-jrgensen.md), [Thomas Bo Larsen](https://film.one/person/thomas-bo-larsen.md), [Thomas Vinterberg](https://film.one/person/thomas-vinterberg.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (3), 2020s 76 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $40m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Lindholm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q246996, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2105585/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/141883

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Borgen*](https://film.one/tv/borgen.md) (84), [*MINDHUNTER*](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md) (83), [*The Good Nurse*](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md) (73)
- **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 Tobias Lindholm

> Tobias Lindholm writes about what happens after the worst has already happened: the accusation accepted, the ship taken. He tells us the answer early and asks us to watch the people instead, and in *The Hunt* that is frightening enough.

The useful thing to know about a Tobias Lindholm script is what it leaves out. In *The Hunt* (2012), written with Thomas Vinterberg, a child accuses a teacher of abuse and the film tells us at once that the man is innocent. There is no mystery. What is left is a small Danish town full of ordinary people deciding, one at a time, that worry about a child permits them to mistreat an adult they have known for years, and Lindholm and Vinterberg make us watch them do it. He has said of *A Hijacking*: "I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn’t interested in that. I’m not an action director."

He came up as a television writer, on twenty episodes of *Borgen* between 2010 and 2011, and has run two careers since. One is with Vinterberg, whose scripts he has shared on *Submarino* (2010), *The Hunt*, *The Commune* (2016) and *Another Round* (2020). The other is his own: *R* (2010), co-directed with Michael Noer, then *A Hijacking* (2012) and *A War* (2015), with Pilou Asbæk as his lead in three films. The method in both is the same. Handheld camera that follows people rather than steering the plot, dialogue that sounds overheard, and no scene in which anyone is allowed a big speech.

The method has two failure modes and we have seen both. The early Danish films were sometimes called austere to the point of withholding, and *R* drew that complaint more than most. *The Hunt* has the opposite trouble. Anne Østerud and Janus Billeskov Jansen cut the first spread of the accusation cleanly, and Mads Mikkelsen makes Lucas's distress hard to look at; we were frightened for him from the first whispered conversation onwards. Then the script keeps adding punishment. By the final stretch we had understood exactly what the town was doing to him and were being told again, and again, and the fear turned into fatigue. For a writer who says he hates melodrama, that is an odd place to end up, and it is our one real reservation about a film we otherwise rate.

Since 2017 he has worked in English as well, directing two episodes of *Mindhunter* for David Fincher, then *The Investigation* (2020) and *The Good Nurse* (2022), all of them built from things that actually happened. The series suits him: its interview scenes are cool, patient and nearly bloodless, and they are the best thing in it. Which episodes were his we would not care to guess from the screen. It is Fincher's programme and it looks like one.

He has said he finds his own imagination boring and would rather start from a case file. On the evidence, he knows himself. Start with *The Hunt*. You will have understood it before it has finished telling you, and that is the only complaint we have.

## Biography

Tobias Lindholm is a Danish screenwriter and film director. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2007.

Lindholm first received attention for his work on the political drama series *Borgen* (2010). He has collaborated frequently with director Thomas Vinterberg on screenplays including *Submarino* (2010), *The Hunt* (2012), *The Commune* (2016) and *Another Round* (2020). As a director his credits include *R* (2010, co-directed with Michael Noer), *A Hijacking* (2012) and *A War* (2015), the latter nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He also directed *The Good Nurse* (2022) and contributed teleplays to *Mindhunter* (2017).

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

## On Fi1m (5)

### Directed (2)

- *The Good Nurse* (2022), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md)
- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), Fi1m 83, Director, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Another Round* (2020), Fi1m 80, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/another-round.md)
- *The Hunt* (2012), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunt.md)
- *Borgen* (2010), Fi1m 84, Writer, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/borgen.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
- *The Good Nurse* (2022), Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-nurse.md)
- *A Taste of Hunger* (2021), Screenplay
- *The Investigation* (2020), series, Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Another Round* (2020), Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/another-round.md)
- *MINDHUNTER* (2017), series, Teleplay, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/mindhunter.md)
- *The Commune* (2016), Screenplay
- *Follow the Money* (2016), series, Idea
- *A War* (2015), Screenplay, Director
- *April 9th* (2015), Writer
- *The Arms Drop* (2014), Writer
- *The Hour of the Lynx* (2013), Screenplay
- *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), Director
- *The Hunt* (2012), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunt.md)
- *A Hijacking* (2012), Writer, Director
- *Borgen* (2010), series, Story, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/borgen.md)
- *R* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Submarino* (2010), Screenplay
- *Sommer* (2008), series, Writer
- *In Transit* (2005), Screenplay
- *The Best of Us*, series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Torpedo*, Writer
- *Slaying the Badger*, Screenplay, Director

## Gallery

- ![Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm och Morten Kaufmann, vinnare av Nordiska rådets filmpris 2010. Keywords: Film Prize](https://film.one/media/person/102992/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/102992/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)
- ![Tobias Lindholm](https://film.one/media/person/102992/gallery-7557e7525157.jpg) Tobias Lindholm — Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Tobias_Lindholm_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 19 won, 4 nominated

- Danish Writers Guild Best Screenplay Award 2021: Danish Writers Guild Best Screenplay Award (won), for *Another Round*
- Robert Award for Best Danish Film 2021: Robert Award for Best Danish Film (won), for *Another Round*
- Robert Award for Best Screenplay 2021: Robert Award for Best Screenplay (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*
- Robert Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 2017: Robert Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (won), for *The Commune*
- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2016: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *A War*
- Robert Award for Best Screenplay 2014: Robert Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *The Hunt*
- Bodil Award for Best Danish Film 2013: Bodil Award for Best Danish Film (won), for *A Hijacking*
- Nordic Council Film Prize 2013: Nordic Council Film Prize (won), for *The Hunt*
- Robert Award for Best Danish Film 2013: Robert Award for Best Danish Film (won), for *A Hijacking*
- Robert Award for Best Screenplay 2013: Robert Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *A Hijacking*
- 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*
- Bodil Award for Best Danish Film 2011: Bodil Award for Best Danish Film (won), for *R*
- Bodil Special Award 2011: Bodil Special Award (won), for *Submarino*
- Robert Award for Best Danish Film 2011: Robert Award for Best Danish Film (won), for *R*
- Robert Award for Best Screenplay 2011: Robert Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *R*
- The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize 2011: The Carl Theodor Dreyer Prize (won)
- Nordic Council Film Prize 2010: Nordic Council Film Prize (won), for *Submarino*
- Nordisk Film Prisen 2010: Nordisk Film Prisen (won)

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

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