Destin Daniel Cretton

Destin Yori Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker best known for directing the drama films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019), as well as the Marvel Studios films Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). Description above from the Wikipedia article Destin Daniel Cretton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

8.0

Lucky Lu

A delivery driver in New York City discovers his e-bike has been stolen. With his family en route after many years apart, Lu must contend with a community that has turned its back on him while he tries to replace the only thing promising to keep his family afloat.

Release Date2025-05-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

8.0

Same Old

After his e-bike is stolen, a food delivery driver in New York City comes to terms with the fragility of his life in America.

Release Date2022-05-18

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

8.0

Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey

A coming of age saga about a 14-year old boy whose life alternates between the medieval fantasy kingdom of Adria and the real world trials of a challenging adolescence.

Release Date2006-05-05

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1

Tokyo Vice
7.9

Tokyo Vice

A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Release Date2022-04-07

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count18

Vote Count307

7.9

Just Mercy

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

Release Date2019-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2339

7.8

Short Term 12

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Release Date2013-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1328

7.5

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Release Date2021-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9773

7.5

The Shack

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Release Date2017-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2182

Marvel Studios Assembled
7.2

Marvel Studios Assembled

Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step of the way.

Release Date2021-03-12

CharacterSelf

Episode Count1

Vote Count211

7.1

The Glass Castle

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

Release Date2017-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count845

7.0

Short Term 12: Behind the Scenes

A behind the scenes from film Short Term 12

Release Date2014-01-14

CharacterSelf

Vote Count1

6.9

Short Term 12

A day at a group home for troubled adolescents. Denim is the head counselor, involved somehow with Natalia, another counselor. During the day, we watch them and other staff deal with a boy who's getting into fights though he has only a week to go before his 18th birthday, a girl whose birthday it is, a foul-mouthed lad, and others. Denim uses music to calm one youth, orients a new staff member, sneaks a marijuana cigarette during a break, and by the day's end, talks to Natalia. Do any of us have it together?

Release Date2008-09-23

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count23

American Born Chinese
6.6

American Born Chinese

Average teenager Jin Wang juggles his high school social life with his immigrant home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school year, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.

Release Date2023-05-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count105

6.0

Closing Dynasty

On a school day, a seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.

Release Date2022-06-08

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

5.8

I Am Not a Hipster

Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own career success. His isolation is lifted when his three sisters and estranged father come to spread his mother’s ashes. Brook’s loving sisters have a magical effect on his anger and apathy, suggesting there may be hope for the misanthropic musician after all.

Release Date2013-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.

Release Date2015-08-02

CharacterSelf

Episode Count1

Vote Count17

5.0

Bartholomew's Song

In a society strict with repetition, Bartholomew's discovery of a music box leads to him embarking on a small journey to break the system.

Release Date2006-04-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Spider-Man: Brand New Day

The fourth installment in the MCU Spider-Man franchise. Plot TBA.

Release Date2026-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

In the Garden of Tulips

Amidst the 1988 war, Caroline takes a car ride with her father to the Iranian countryside of Birjand.

Release Date2023-04-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Los

Written by three juvenile inmates facing life sentences, "LOS" is a loss of innocence story that follows twelve-year-old Chris as he discovers that smoking pot for the first time, losing his virginity, and being part of a drive-by shooting aren't nearly as scary as being emotionally vulnerable with the girl he loves.

Release Date2017-07-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Switchfoot: Close to Our Hearts, The Bro-Am Documentary

San Diego-based, Grammy-award-winning rock band Switchfoot gave four local teen filmmakers behind-the-scenes access to their 10th annual Bro-Am surf contest and concert, which has raised more than a million dollars for San Diego underprivileged teens. The Canyon Crest Academy student filmmakers who created this documentary attend the same public school district where members of Switchfoot grew up and developed their love for music, surf, and beach culture. A production of the school program CCA-TV and Envision Cinema, this short film focuses on the band members' desire to give back to the community that invested in them when they were teens.

Release Date2014-10-14

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JobProducer

Deacon's Mondays

Deacon lives in a fantastical world of snowing feathers, hailing golf balls and incredible guilt. After a petty accident begins to haunt him, the lonely landscaper must stumble through his mundane life while combating his inner torment. Through an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman, Deacon comes face to face with his own humanness and learns that he is not alone.

Release Date2007-09-13

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JobProducer

Longbranch: A Suburban Parable

A cowboy, a blind man, and a guy in a red sweater all mix together in this didactic recipe of hamburger, ketchup and suicide.

Release Date2002-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Naruto

An outcast in a village of ninjas sets out to become the leader and strongest warrior of his home.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

By the Time the Sun Is Hot

Staged as a classic-era Bible epic, a celebrated bride discovers she is incapable of bearing children, while her cousin, a struggling farmer, harbours a dark jealousy towards a prosperous shepherd.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Wonder Man

Wonder Man

Follows Simon Williams, also known in Marvel Comics as Wonder Man. Described as a Hollywood satire.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count2

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