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.
Personal Details
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Movies (19)
In Between Storms
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
Ricky
Producer (Production)
2025
The Sound of 007
as Self
2022
Designing Bond
as Self
2021
No Time to Die
Story (Writing)
2021
Passion Project
as Self
2021
Joe Bell
Producer (Production)
2020
It
Screenplay (Writing)
2017
Thumper
Executive Producer (Production)
2017
Little Boxes
Executive Producer (Production)
2017
Lovesong
as Dean
2017
Beasts of No Nation
Director (Directing)
2015
Sleepwalking in the Rift
Director (Directing)
2012
Jane Eyre
Director (Directing)
2011
Chinatown Film Project
Director (Directing)
2009
Sin Nombre
Director (Directing)
2009
Sikumi (On the Ice)
Director of Photography (Camera)
2008
Two Men
Director of Photography (Camera)
2005
Victoria para Chino
Director (Directing)
2004
