Cary Joji Fukunaga

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1977-07-10 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Oakland, California, USA

Also Known As Cary Joji Fukanaga, Cary Jôji Fukunaga , Cary Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Biography

Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director, writer, and cinematographer. He is known for writing and directing the 2009 film "Sin Nombre", the 2011 film "Jane Eyre", and for directing and executive producing the first season of the HBO series "True Detective", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. He has received acclaim for the 2015 war drama "Beasts of No Nation", in which Fukunaga was writer, director, producer, and cinematographer. Fukunaga lives in New York City. Fukunaga has lived in France, Japan, and Mexico City. He is fluent in French and Spanish. He counts screenwriter Naomi Foner as a mentor. He has received several grants, including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the John H. Johnson Film Award / Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary.

Known For

Director

Blood on Snow

as Director

77 Blackout

as Director

Tokyo Ghost

as Director

2024
Masters of the Air

as Director

2021
No Time to Die

as Director

2018
Maniac

as Director

2015
2014
True Detective

as Director

2012
2011
Jane Eyre

as Director

2009
Sin Nombre

as Director

2009
2004

Producer

Blood on Snow

as Producer

Tokyo Ghost

as Producer

2025
Ricky

as Producer

2020
Joe Bell

as Producer

2018
The Alienist

as Executive Producer

2018
Maniac

as Executive Producer

2017
Little Boxes

as Executive Producer

2017
Thumper

as Executive Producer

2015
2014
True Detective

as Executive Producer

2012
2004
Victoria para Chino

as Executive Producer

Writer

77 Blackout

as Other

2024
Omnivore

as Other

2021
2021
No Time to Die

as Screenplay

2018
The Alienist

as Teleplay

2018
Maniac

as Writer

2017
It

as Screenplay

2015
Beasts of No Nation

as Screenplay

2009
Sin Nombre

as Screenplay

2004

Actor

2022
2021
2021
2021
Being James Bond

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Lovesong

as Dean

2011
On Story

as Self

Camera

2015
Beasts of No Nation

as Director of Photography

2008
Sikumi (On the Ice)

as Director of Photography

2005
Two Men

as Director of Photography

Creator

2018
The Alienist

as Creator

2018
Maniac

as Creator