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Cary Joji Fukunaga

Highest Rated: 91% Beasts of No Nation (2015)

Lowest Rated: 39% Joe Bell (2020)

Birthday: Jul 10, 1977

Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA

Using both his educational background and real-life experiences, Cary Joji Fukunaga emerged in a big way onto the filmmaking scene with his debut, "Sin Nombre" (2009), which earned the director widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards following the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. After winning a Student Academy Award for making a short film based on the tragic end for a group of illegal immigrants in Texas, Fukunaga journeyed across Central America atop a railroad car alongside other migrant workers in order to better understand their often harrowing plights in trying to cross the border. An eye-opening experience, his travels led to writing the script for "Sin Nombre," a tension-filled crime thriller about a young Honduran girl being escorted to the U.S. border by a repentant gang member desperately trying to escape certain retribution from his fellow bangers. Thanks to the independent success of the film, which earned several critics and film festival awards, Fukunaga found himself on Hollywood's radar, earning a development deal with a major studio that led to an adaptation of the classic British novel "Jane Eyre" (2011), followed by the first season of dark and gritty cable television mystery "True Detective" (HBO 2014- ). Departing that series after creative clashes with its creator Nic Pizzolatto, Fukunaga returned to the big screen with "Beasts of No Nation" (2015), a chilling tale about an African civil war as seen through the eyes of a child soldier.

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Highest-Rated Movies

91% 92% Beasts of No Nation Watchlist
89% Ricky
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88% 89% Sin nombre
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86% 65% Thumper Watchlist 85% 84% It Watchlist 85% 76% Jane Eyre Watchlist 83% 56% Lovesong Watchlist 83% 88% No Time to Die Watchlist 70% 49% Little Boxes Watchlist
67% 61% On the Ice
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Filmography

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Ricky 89% 2025 Producer The Sound of 007 80% 2022 Self No Time to Die 83% 88% 2021 Director, Screenwriter Joe Bell 39% 73% 2020 Producer Thumper 86% 65% 2017 Executive Producer It 85% 84% 2017 Screenwriter Little Boxes 70% 49% 2016 Executive Producer Lovesong 83% 56% 2016 Dean Actor Beasts of No Nation 91% 92% 2015 Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Cinematographer On the Ice 67% 61% 2011 Executive Producer Jane Eyre 85% 76% 2011 Director Sin nombre 88% 89% 2009 Director, Screenwriter
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