Film director Lars von Trier was born on April 30, 1956, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Influenced by his uncle, a documentary filmmaker, he began making films in his teens. He studied at the Film School of the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Film School, and after graduating, made his feature-length debut with "Element of Crime" in 1984. This work won the French High Technical Committee Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He has a long history with the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Special Jury Grand Prix in 1996 for "The Sea," and the Palme d'Or, the highest award, in 2000 for the musical film "Dancer in the Dark," starring Björk. In 1995, together with Thomas Vinterberg and others, he proposed "Dogma 95," a set of 10 important rules for filmmaking. He then released his "Depression Trilogy," which included Dogville (2003) starring Nicole Kidman, Antichrist (2009), which caused controversy when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and Nymphomaniac (2013), a five-and-a-half-hour feature film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe, and Shia LaBeouf. The film has attracted attention for its extreme depictions of violence and sex.