
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Born
1943-03-31
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Roy Andersson
Biography
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned prizes from the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival.
Andersson spent much of his professional life working on advertisement spots, directing over 400 commercials and two short films; directing six feature-length films in six decades. He made his feature film debut with A Swedish Love Story (1970) followed by Giliap (1975). Anderson received the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize for Songs from the Second Floor (2000). His film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) won the Venice International Film Festival's Golden Lion. He other notable films include You, the Living (2007), and About Endlessness (2019).
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Being Bo Widerberg as Self
2024The Andersson Brothers as Self
2023Roy Andersson's People as Self
2020Being a Human Person as Self
2020Året var 1970 as Self (archive footage)
2018Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2017Citizen Schein as Self
2012Palme as Self
2012Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan! as Himself
2012Room 1112
2011Tomorrow's Another Day as Himself
2009På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson as Himself
2004With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof as Self
2001You Do the Best You Can as Self
2000The Greatness of the Small Man as Self
2000Obsessions du deuxième étage as Self
1998Life at Any Cost as Himself






