Niels Arden Oplev

Niels is a television and film director who in 2009 directed Millennium: Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the most successful Scandinavian film of all time.

He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1989 and went on to direct two International Emmy Award winning television series - Ørnen and Rejseholdet - as well as a series of successful feature films. Niels' feature debut, Portland, marked the start of a controversial ‘new wave' of Danish films throughout the mid-nineties and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 1996.

In 2006, he directed the hugely popular We Shall Overcome, which was Denmark's best selling film of the year. It won a host of international awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Niels followed up in 2009 with an adaptation of Steig Larsson's cult novel, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which smashed box office records in its opening weekend before being sold for international distribution. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has now become a global hit and the subject of a Hollywood remake.