Cary Joji Fukunaga

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.

Works

Ricky

Newly released after being locked up in his teens, 30-year-old Ricky navigates the challenging realities of life post-incarceration, and the complexity of gaining independence for the first time as an adult.

Release Date:2025-01-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Omnivore
8.0

Omnivore

From Peruvian salt flats to Rwandan coffee forests, explore and celebrate the ingredients that built societies, shaped beliefs, and forever altered the tapestry of humanity.

Release Date:2024-07-18

Department:Writing

Job:Other

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:6

Masters of the Air
7.8

Masters of the Air

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

Release Date:2024-01-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:440

6.9

The Sound of 007

Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery’s Dr No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time to Die.

Release Date:2022-10-04

Character:Self

Vote Count:44

Designing Bond

Production designer Mark Tildesley and costume designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb, along with cast and other filmmakers, discuss the inspiration, challenges and trials of conceiving and making the remarkable sets and costumes for the iconic Bond franchise.

Release Date:2021-12-20

Character:Self

7.4

No Time to Die

Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Release Date:2021-09-29

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:6402

Passion Project

Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.

Release Date:2021-08-31

Character:Self

7.7

Being James Bond

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

Release Date:2021-08-29

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:88

6.5

Joe Bell

The true story of a small town, working class father who embarks on a solo walk across the U.S. to crusade against bullying after his son is tormented in high school for being gay.

Release Date:2020-09-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:242

Maniac
7.4

Maniac

Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.

Release Date:2018-09-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:851

The Alienist
7.5

The Alienist

New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.

Release Date:2018-01-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:18

Vote Count:611

7.2

It

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Release Date:2017-09-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:19208

5.6

Thumper

In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.

Release Date:2017-04-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:60

6.1

Little Boxes

It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and Gina also strive to adjust to small-town living. Equipped for the many inherent challenges of New York, the tight-knit family are ill prepared for the drastically different set of obstacles that their new community presents, and soon find themselves struggling to understand themselves and each other in this new suburban context.

Release Date:2017-04-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:62

5.7

Lovesong

Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.

Release Date:2017-02-17

Character:Dean

Vote Count:186

7.6

Beasts of No Nation

Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.

Release Date:2015-09-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1744

True Detective
8.3

True Detective

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Release Date:2014-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:3540

6.2

Sleepwalking in the Rift

On her first visit to East Africa, a young woman crosses paths with the Ranger charged with being her guide. They have something in common and when they meet, a light within them both begins to flicker.

Release Date:2012-12-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:8

On Story
4.0

On Story

An inside look at the creative process behind some of our most popular and beloved movies and television shows. All episodes feature recorded conversations between acclaimed and award-winning screenwriters, TV creators, and filmmakers from the Austin Film Festival's annual conference and year round events.

Release Date:2011-04-16

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

7.2

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Release Date:2011-03-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1468

Chinatown Film Project

Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants.

Release Date:2009-07-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.6

Sin Nombre

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.

Release Date:2009-03-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:687

5.3

Sikumi (On the Ice)

An Inuit hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead, bears witness to murder. In the microscopic communities of Arctic Alaska there is no anonymity -- the hunter knows both the victim and the murderer. The murderer, claiming self-defense and desperate to avoid punishment, tries to persuade his friend to forget what he has seen, and help dispose of the body. The hunter is forced to navigate the uneasy morality of honoring the body and memory of one friend and destroying the life of another.

Release Date:2008-01-17

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:13

Two Men

- I met the first man when I was on my way to an event at Veteran's of Foreign Wars Hall. Was helped out from the party by two good friends. I had forgotten all about those guys.

Release Date:2005-01-30

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

6.2

Victoria para Chino

In May 2003 a refrigerated truck carrying more than 80 illegal immigrants from the Mexican border drove into the heartland of Texas. A deadly combination of heat and overcrowding lead to tragedy. This is a story of that journey.

Release Date:2004-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

77 Blackout

In 1977, five rogue police officers formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds—the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob—all in one night. When a blackout sweeps the city the night of the robbery, the crew is forced to navigate a hellish landscape as years of being overworked and underpaid force each of them to confront their own morality.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Blood on Snow

In 1970's Oslo, two rival gang leaders—Hoffman and the Fisherman—vie for control. Hoffman's trusted hitman, Olav, is a cold, efficient killer, perfect for the job. But beneath his ruthless exterior lies an unexpected intelligence and an unwavering moral code shaped by a complicated childhood. When Hoffman orders his own wife to be murdered, Olav's principles clash with his loyalties.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Entre Tormentas

After a hurricane ravages his hometown, a grieving man breaks into an off-limits cemetery to rescue the lost remains of his brother in order to give him a proper burial.

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

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