Nicolas Winding Refn Net Worth

What Is Nicolas Winding Refn's Net Worth?

Nicolas Winding Refn is a Danish director, screenwriter, and producer who has a net worth of $10 million. Nicolas Winding Refn wrote, directed, and appeared in the 1996 film "Pusher" and wrote, directed, and produced the 1999 movie "Bleeder." Refn then wrote and directed the films "Fear X" (2003), "Pusher II" (2004), "Pusher 3" (2005), "Bronson" (2008), "Valhalla Rising" (2009), and Only God Forgives" (2013) and directed "Drive" (2011). Nicolas also wrote, directed, and produced the 2016 film "The Neon Demon." On television, he directed two 2007 episodes of "Agatha Christie's Marple," and he created and executive produced the miniseries "Too Old to Die Young" (2019) and the TV series "Copenhagen Cowboy" (2023) and "The Famous Five" (2023). Refn is credited as a writer and director on all ten episodes of "Too Old to Die Young," and he directed every episode of "Copenhagen Cowboy." Nicolas has won more than two dozen awards, and he earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Director for "Drive" in 2012.

Early Life

Nicolas Winding Refn was born on September 29, 1970, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the son of cinematographer Vibeke Winding and film director/editor Anders Refn and the half-brother of musician Kasper Winding. Nicolas moved to the United States from Denmark in 1981 and was raised partly in New York. He was expelled from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for throwing a table into a wall. During a 2011 appearance on the radio show "Bullseye with Jesse Thorn," Refn stated, "It was great because I hated authority anyways, so it didn't turn out the way I thought it was going to be, but that was maybe good, because if it hadn't maybe I wouldn't be sitting here. So I was the happiest person smashing a table into the wall and being told that was unacceptable."

Career

Refn's first film was the 1996 Danish crime thriller "Pusher," which he co-wrote (with Jens Dahl), directed, and appeared in. He later wrote and directed 2004's "Pusher II" and 2005's "Pusher 3," and "Pusher II" earned him a Bodil Awards nomination for Best Film (Bedste danske film) and a Nordic Council Film Prize nomination. The film received 12 Danish Film Award nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, Original. Nicolas wrote, directed, and produced the 1999 Danish crime drama "Bleeder," which earned nine Danish Film Awards as well as a Bodil Award nomination for Best Film. Next, Refn directed the 2003 psychological thriller "Fear X," which he co-wrote with Hubert Selby Jr. The film was not commercially successful, and its financial failure caused Nicolas' film production company, Jang Go Star, to go into bankruptcy. Refn and Selby won the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Screenplay at the 2004 Fantasporto festival. Nicolas co-wrote (with Brock Norman Brock) and directed the 2008 biographical prison drama "Bronson," which starred Tom Hardy as artist and criminal Charles Bronson and was named Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival.

Refn's 2009 film "Valhalla Rising," which he co-wrote with Roy Jacobsen, earned him two awards at the Fantasporto festival. The film also received nine Danish Film Award nominations, including Best Screenplay. Nicolas won numerous awards for his 2011 film "Drive," which starred Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac, and Albert Brooks. The film grossed $81.4 million against a $15 million budget, and several critics included it on their lists of the year's best films. Refn directed Gosling again in 2013's "Only God Forgives," which he also wrote. The film earned seven Danish Film Award nominations, winning three awards. Nicolas directed and produced 2016's "The Neon Demon," which he co-wrote with Mary Laws and Polly Stenham. "The Neon Demon" won five Danish Film Awards and was named Best Film at the Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival. Refn created the miniseries "Too Old to Die Young" (2019) and the TV series "Copenhagen Cowboy" (2023) and "The Famous Five" (2023), and he directed every episode of "Too Old to Die Young" and "Copenhagen Cowboy."

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Personal Life

Nicolas married actress Liv Corfixen in 2007, and they have welcomed daughters Lizzielou and Lola together. Corfixen wrote and directed the 2014 documentary "My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn," which focused on the production of "Only God Forgives." Refn was in debt after he made "Fear X," and the 2006 documentary "Gambler" (written and directed by Phie Ambo) is about "his efforts to pay a 5.5 million crowns debt."

Awards and Nominations

Refn has earned numerous awards and nominations. For "Drive," he won awards from the Cannes Film Festival, Fotogramas de Plata, Satellite Awards, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards, San Diego Film Critics Society Awards, Amanda Awards, Sant Jordi Awards, Awards Circuit Community Awards, and IGN Summer Movie Awards and received nominations from the BAFTA Awards, Bodil Awards, Critics Choice Awards, César Awards, David di Donatello Awards, Film Independent Spirit Awards, and London Critics Circle Film Awards. Nicolas has earned ten Danish Film Award nominations, winning for Best American Film (Årets amerikanske film) for "Drive" in 2012. His other nominations were for "Pusher II," "Valhalla Rising," "Only God Forgives," and "The Neon Demon." At the Fantasporto festival, Refn won the Best Screenplay award for "Fear X" (2004) and the International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award for "Valhalla Rising" (2010). "Valhalla Rising" also earned him a Titra Film Award at the 2010 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival. At the Sydney Film Festival, "Bronson" and "Only God Forgives" were named Best Film in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2016, Nicolas won the José Luis Guarner Critic's Award for Best Film for "The Neon Demon" at the Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival.

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