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.
Sin Nombre
(Director)
Sin Nombre
(Screenplay)
Tokyo Ghost
(Director)
Tokyo Ghost
(Producer)
Jane Eyre
(Director)
Two Men
(Director of Photography)
Sleepwalking in the Rift
(Director)
Sleepwalking in the Rift
(Producer)
Victoria para Chino
(Director)
Sikumi (On the Ice)
(Director of Photography)
Beasts of No Nation
(Screenplay)
Beasts of No Nation
(Director)
No Time to Die
(Story)
Beasts of No Nation
(Director of Photography)
Beasts of No Nation
(Producer)
Little Boxes
(Executive Producer)
Thumper
(Executive Producer)
77 Blackout
(Other)
77 Blackout
(Director)
No Time to Die
(Director)
Joe Bell
(Producer)
Victoria para Chino
(Executive Producer)
Victoria para Chino
(Writer)
It
(Screenplay)
No Time to Die
(Screenplay)
Chinatown Film Project
(Director)
Blood on Snow
(Director)
Blood on Snow
(Producer)
True Detective
(Executive Producer)
The Alienist
(Executive Producer)
The Alienist
(Teleplay)
Maniac
(Executive Producer)
Maniac
(Writer)
Maniac
(Director)
True Detective
(Director)
Masters of the Air
(Director)
Omnivore
(Other)
The Alienist
(Creator)
Maniac
(Creator)