Niels Pagh Andersen started his career as assistant on fiction film 16 years old. Since 1979 he has worked as a film-editor and has cut more than 250 films of widely different categories.

Among them the fiction-films The Pathfinder, Academy Award Nominee and Everlasting Moments , Golden Globe Nominee and the documentaries The Act of Killing and The look of Silence, both Academy Award Nominees.

He has worked on several films with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and lately been editing Joshua Oppenheimers musical The End.

He has lectured and taught at film schools and universities around the world and was for 7 years Professor in Editing at The Norwegian Film school.

In 2005 he won the prestigious lifetime achievement award, The Roos Prize, The Danish Film Institute’s grand documentary prize for outstanding efforts in documentary filmmaking.

In 2021 he published the book “ Order in Chaos”- Storytelling and editing in Documentary film.