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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
88% 89% Sin nombre
Watchlist
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
Watchlist
39% 72% Joe Bell Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 79% The Sound of 007 Self - 2022
83% 88% No Time to Die Director,
Screenwriter
$160.8M 2021
39% 72% Joe Bell Producer $1.4M 2020
86% 65% Thumper Executive Producer - 2017
85% 84% It Screenwriter $327.5M 2017
70% 49% Little Boxes Executive Producer - 2016
83% 56% Lovesong Dean (Character) $10.5K 2016
91% 92% Beasts of No Nation Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer,
Cinematographer
$83.9K 2015
67% 61% On the Ice Executive Producer $70.5K 2011
85% 76% Jane Eyre Director $11.2M 2011
88% 89% Sin nombre Director,
Screenwriter
$2.5M 2009

TV

Credit
100% 72% Omnivore Creator 2024
85% 72% Masters of the Air Director 2024
79% 59% True Detective Executive Producer,
Director,
Producer
2014 2019 2024
85% 84% Maniac Director 2018
77% 80% The Alienist Executive Producer 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2015