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Cary Joji Fukunaga

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Cary Joji Fukunaga

Born Jul 10, 1977 · 49 years28 titles 22 movies · 6 TV
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Biography

Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American filmmaker. A director of TV and film, he first came to wide prominence by directing the first season of the HBO series True Detective (2014). He is known for directing critically acclaimed films such as the thriller Sin nombre (2009), the period drama Jane Eyre (2011), the war drama Beasts of No Nation (2015) and the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die (2021). He also co-wrote the Stephen King adaptation It (2017). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series as the director and executive producer of True Detective. He also directed and executive produced the Netflix limited series Maniac (2018) and executive produced and directed several episodes of the Apple TV+ miniseries Masters of the Air (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Cary Joji Fukunaga, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

Cary Joji Fukanaga · Cary Jôji Fukunaga · Cary Fukunaga

Born

Jul 10, 1977

Oakland, California, USA

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Roles across career

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

5

Acting credits

15

Directing

9

Writing

12

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

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2004 2 title(s)

2005 1 title(s)

2008 1 title(s)

2009 2 title(s)

2011 2 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2014 1 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2017 4 title(s)

2018 2 title(s)

2020 1 title(s)

2021 3 title(s)

2022 1 title(s)

2024 2 title(s)

2025 2 title(s)

Undated 2 title(s)