- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- March 31, 1943
- Place of Birth
- Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Roy Andersson
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 …
Filmography
movieBeing Bo Widerberg
2025 · Self
movieThe Andersson Brothers
2024 · Self
movieRoy Andersson's People
2023 · Self
movieThe Most Beautiful Boy in the World
2021 · Thanks
movieBeing a Human Person
2020 · Self
movieÅret var 1970
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieAbout Endlessness
2019 · Screenplay, Director, Editor
movieBergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Self
movieCitizen Schein
2017 · Self
movieA Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
2014 · Director, Screenplay
moviePalme
2012 · Self
Lev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
movieLev människa... för helvete... så länge du kan!
2012 · Himself
movieRoom 1112
2012
movieTomorrow's Another Day
2011 · Himself
På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
moviePå genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson
2009 · Himself
movie5 x Roy Andersson
2009 · Writer, Director
movieCinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007 · Director
movieYou, the Living
2007 · Director, Screenplay
movieCinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006 · Director
movieWith a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004 · Self
movieYou Do the Best You Can
2001 · Self
movieThe Greatness of the Small Man
2000 · Self
movieSongs from the Second Floor
2000 · Screenplay, Director, Editor, Producer
movieObsessions from the Second Floor
2000 · Self
movieOne Morning All Over the World
2000 · Director
movieLife at Any Cost
1998 · Himself
movieWorld of Glory
1991 · Director, Screenplay
movieSomething Has Happened
1987 · Editor, Writer, Director
movieJonny Roova
1985 · Producer
So Terribly Unnecessary
movieSo Terribly Unnecessary
1979 · Director, Producer
movieGiliap
1975 · Director, Writer, Editor
movieA Swedish Love Story
1970 · Director, Writer
movieSaturday October 5th
1969 · Director, Editor, Writer
movieAdalen 31
1969 · Assistant Director
movieThe White Game
1968 · Director of Photography
movieTo Fetch a Bike
1968 · Writer, Director
movieVisiting One's Son
1967 · Director