Christian E. Christiansen
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Biography
A graduate of Kalundborg GymnasiumKalundborg Gymnasium
Kalundborg Gymnasium is a municipal gymnasium in Kalundborg Municipality, Denmark. Established on August 12, 1957, as a high school, the first rector was R. Stig Hansen. , the rector is Peter Abildgaard Andersen, who has held the position since August 2006....
and the National Film School of Denmark
National Film School of Denmark
TheNational Film School of Denmark is an independent institution under the Danish Ministry of Cultural Affairs. It was established in 1966 and is based on Holmen in the harbour of Copenhagen.-History:...
, he worked in lower positions on a number of Danish films before producing his first hit movie, Nynne
Nynne
Nynne is a Danish film directed by Jonas Elmer, starring Mille Dinesen. It is based on the bestselling Danish novel Nynnes dagbog by Henriette Lind, Lotte Thorsen and Anette Vestergaard, which again was based on a popular newspaper column in Politiken...
(2005), a comedy directed by Jonas Elmer
Jonas Elmer (director)
Jonas Elmer is a Danish film director, screenwriter and previously an actor. In 1988 he was a production assistant at the set of Family Business, starring Sean Connery....
. He then produced and directed the social realist
Social realism
Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic...
drama Råzone (2006, aka Life Hits), which was nominated for a Bodil Award
Bodil Awards
The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by Denmark's National Association of Film Critics . The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in the Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe...
as Best Film, and nominated for two Robert Award
Robert Award
The Robert statue is a Danish film prize awarded each year by the Film Academy of Denmark. It is the Danish equivalent of the American Oscars. The award, voted only by academy members, is acknowledgement by Danish industry colleagues of a person's or film's outstanding contributions during the...
s as Best Children/Family Film, as well as for Best Director. His short film Om natten (2007, aka At Night), which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Oscar as Best Short Film (Live-Action). Christiansen made his Hollywood debut with the critically panned thriller The Roommate
The Roommate
The Roommate is a 2011 thriller film directed by Christian E. Christiansen and starring Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet, Danneel Harris, Matt Lanter, and Aly Michalka. It was theatrically released on February 4, 2011. The film is a unofficial remake of the 1992 film Single White...
in 2011.