Roy Andersson
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 31, 1943, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
- Movies
- 34
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Being Bo Widerberg | Self |
| 2024 | The Andersson Brothers | Self |
| 2023 | Roy Andersson's People | Self |
| 2020 | Being a Human Person | Self |
| 2020 | Året var 1970 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life | Self |
| 2017 | Citizen Schein | Self |
| 2012 | Palme | Self |
| 2012 | Live, Human... as Long as You Possibly Can! | Himself |
| 2012 | Room 1112 | |
| 2011 | Tomorrow's Another Day | Himself |
| 2009 | På genomresa - en intervju med Roy Andersson | Himself |
| 2004 | With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof | Self |
| 2001 | You Do the Best You Can | Self |
| 2000 | The Greatness of the Small Man | Self |
| 2000 | Obsessions from the Second Floor | Self |
| 1998 | Life at Any Cost | Himself |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2019 | About Endlessness | Screenplay, Director |
| 2014 | A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | Director, Screenplay |
| 2009 | 5 x Roy Andersson | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition) | Director |
| 2007 | You, the Living | Director, Screenplay |
| 2006 | Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition) | Director |
| 2000 | Songs from the Second Floor | Director, Screenplay, Producer |
| 1991 | World of Glory | Director, Screenplay |
| 1987 | Something Has Happened | Director, Writer |
| 1985 | Jonny Roova | Producer |
| 1979 | So Terribly Unnecessary | Director, Producer |
| 1975 | Giliap | Director, Writer |
| 1970 | A Swedish Love Story | Director, Writer |
| 1969 | Saturday October 5th | Director, Writer |
| 1968 | The White Game | Director |
| 1968 | To Fetch a Bike | Writer, Director |
| 1967 | Visiting One's Son | Director |
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