Susanne Bier

Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier is one of the most successful and renowned directors of our time. She won the Best Picture: Non-English Language Golden Globe for her 2010 film In A Better World (Haeven), and many other accolades while working on films and series such as Brothers, After the Wedding, Things We Lost in the Fire, Serena, and Bird Box.

Nicole Kidman hired the Danish filmmaker and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier to direct HBO’s six-part limited series The Undoing.   “I read the first version of the first episode that David E.

Susanne Bier is at it again. The Danish director, a Golden Globe winner for In a Better World in 2011, is also known for her Danish feature films Brothers and After the Wedding and as well as last year’s huge Netflix success Bird Box, has returned with another limited series.

“No, being a woman does not make it more difficult to direct action sequences,” laughs Susanne Bier, dismissing the possible explanation for why studios and production companies fail to give tentpole projects to women directors. “Directing an action sequence is no different than any other part of visual storytelling.

Best Foreign Film "In A Better World" - Denmark.