Birger Larsen (22 December 1961 – 26 October 2016) was a Danish film director and screenwriter.
 He won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film for his 1990 film "Dance of the Polar Bears" (Danish: "Lad isbjørnene danse" ).
 He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film for his film "Sweethearts" (1996).
 In 2013, he directed the first episode of "Crimes of Passion".
Henning Carlsen (4 June 1927 – 30 May 2014) was a Danish film director, screenwriter, and producer most noted for his documentaries and his contributions to the style of cinéma vérité.
 Carlsen's 1966 social-realistic drama "Hunger" ("Sult") was nominated for the Palme D'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
 Carlsen also won the Bodil Award the following year for the comedy "People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart".
 Acting as his own producer since 1960, Carlsen has directed more than 25 films, 19 for which he wrote the screenplay.
 In 2006, he received the Golden Swan Lifetime Achievement Award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival.
Peter Schønau Fog (born 20 April 1971) is a Danish film director.
 Fog's debut feature film, "Kunsten at græde i kor" (English: "The Art of Crying"), based on Erling Jepsen's novel of the same name, premiered 27 April 2007 and received critical acclaim.
 For the film, he received the Nordic Council Film Prize for Best Film of 2007 as well as the 2007 Robert Award for Best Danish Film and 2008 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
Sven Johan Methling (or Sven Methling Jr.) (1918–2005) was a Danish film director and screenwriter.
 The son of actor and film director Svend Methling, Methling Jr. was best known for a series of light-hearted comedies.
 His 1959 comedy "Vi er allesammen tossede" ("All of us are Crazy") received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
 Methling also received the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film for the 1955 war drama "Der kom en dag" ("There Will Come a Day").
Lone Scherfig (born 2 May 1959) is a Danish film director and screenwriter who has been involved with the Dogme 95 film movement and who has been widely critically acclaimed for several of her movies, including the Oscar-nominated film "An Education" (2009).
 Scherfig's movies are generally romantic comedies, including her film "One Day" (2011), based on the David Nicholls novel.
 Through both experimenting with creative constraints and her astute attention to detail, she has come to be recognized as a blossoming talent in the film industry.
Lau Lauritzen Jr. (26 June 1910 – 12 May 1977), was a Danish actor, screenwriter, and film director.
 As a director, he was a 4-time recipient of the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film.
 Lauritzen co-founded the Danish film studio ASA Film and served as the studio's artistic director (1937–1945) and administrative director (1945–1964).
An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber.
 The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby.
 It stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming con man who seduces her.
 The film was nominated for three Academy Awards in 2010: Best Picture and Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for Nick Hornby, and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan.
Facing the Truth (Danish: "At kende sandheden" ) is a 2002 Danish drama written and directed by Nils Malmros.
 Shot in black-and-white documentary style, and based on the real life of Malmros' father, the film relates the hardships of a young neurosurgeon struggling through a medical lawsuit.
 Malmros, whose films are known for their realism, is educated as a surgeon and performed all the film's brain surgery scenes.
 The film was nominated for the 2003 Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and won the 2003 Danish Film Academy's Robert Award for Film of the Year.
Annelise Hovmand (17 September 1924 – 28 December 2016) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
 She directed 12 films between 1955 and 1991.
 Her 1957 film "Ingen tid til kærtegn" won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film and was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Babette's Feast (Danish: "Babettes gæstebud" ) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel.
 The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).
 Produced by Just Betzer, Bo Christensen, and Benni Korzen with funding from the Danish Film Institute, "Babette's Feast" was the first Danish cinema film of a Blixen story.
 It was also the first Danish film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
 The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Question: A Danish film director directed a film based on a memoir of a British journalist that stars who?
Answer: Carey Mulligan