Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn Danish ˈnekolɑs ˈventeŋˈʁæfn born 29 September 1970 is a Danish film director screenwriter and producer He directed the Pusher trilogy 19962005 the crime drama Bronson 2008 and the adventure film Valhalla Rising 2009 In 2011 he directed the action drama film Drive 2011 for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director He was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction Refns subsequent films were the stylistically driven action film Only God Forgives 2013 and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon 2016 In 2019 he directed his first television series Too Old to Die Young 2019 which premiered on Amazon Prime After Amazons Too Old to Die Young Refns next project took him to Netflix and saw him returning to his native Copenhagen for the first time since Pusher 3 which was the setting for his magical realism series Copenhagen Cowboy In 2008 Refn cofounded the Copenhagenbased production company Space Rocket Nation Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicolas Winding Refn licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia