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Daniel Kwan

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Daniel Kwan

Born Feb 10, 1988 · 38 years32 titles 24 movies · 8 TV
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Biography

Daniel Kwan (born February 10, 1988) is an American filmmaker and one-half of the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, alongside Daniel Scheinert. He began his career as a director of music videos, including ones for "Houdini" (2012) by Foster the People and "Turn Down for What" (2013) by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, both of which earned Grammy Award nominations. Kwan co-wrote and co-directed the absurdist comedy dramas Swiss Army Man (2016) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). The latter became A24's highest-grossing film and earned him several accolades, including Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniels (directors), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Dan Kwan · 다니엘 콴 · 关家永 · Daniels · The Daniels

Born

Feb 10, 1988

Westborough, Massachusetts, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

12

Acting credits

21

Directing

14

Writing

11

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1953 1 title(s)

2009 4 title(s)

2010 3 title(s)

2011 3 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

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2014 2 title(s)

2015 2 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 2 title(s)

2018 1 title(s)

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2020 2 title(s)

2022 3 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

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2027 1 title(s)

Undated 1 title(s)