{"id":30946,"date":"2026-07-10T18:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=nicolas-winding-refn"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:57:35","slug":"nicolas-winding-refn","status":"publish","type":"movie_engine_person","link":"https:\/\/lovemoviesnight.com\/?movie_engine_person=nicolas-winding-refn","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Winding Refn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Winding Refn\u00a0(Danish:\u00a0[\u02c8ne\u031dkol\u0251s\u00a0\u02c8ve\u031dnte\u031d\u014b\u02c8\u0281\u00e6fn\u0329]; born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer.<\/p>\n<p>He directed the\u00a0Pusher\u00a0trilogy\u00a0(1996\u20132005), the crime drama\u00a0Bronson\u00a0(2008), and the adventure film\u00a0Valhalla Rising\u00a0(2009). In 2011, he directed the action drama film\u00a0Drive\u00a0(2011), for which he won the\u00a0Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for the\u00a0BAFTA Award for Best Direction. Refn&#8217;s subsequent films were the stylistically driven action film\u00a0Only God Forgives\u00a0(2013) and the psychological horror film\u00a0The Neon Demon\u00a0(2016).<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, he directed his first television series, Too Old to Die Young\u00a0(2019), which premiered on\u00a0Amazon Prime.\u00a0After Amazon&#8217;s\u00a0Too Old to Die Young, Refn&#8217;s next project took him to\u00a0Netflix and saw him returning to his native Copenhagen for the first time since\u00a0Pusher 3, which was the setting for his magical realism series,\u00a0Copenhagen Cowboy. 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