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Birthplace
Oakland, California, USA
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Birthday
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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.
| Year | Category | Subcategory | Info | Movie/Tv Series |
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| 2022 | Gold List | Winner Honorable Mention | Best Director (Cary Joji Fukunaga) | No Time to Die |
| Year | Category | Subcategory | Info | Movie/Tv Series |
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| 2022 | BAFTA Awards | Nominee BAFTA Film Award | Outstanding British Film of the Year (Cary Joji Fukunaga, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Phoebe Waller-Bridge) | No Time to Die |
| 2019 | Directors Guild of America, USA | Nominee DGA Award | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series (Cary Joji Fukunaga) | Maniac |
| 2019 | PGA Awards | Nominee PGA Award | Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television (Patrick Somerville, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Michael Sugar, Doug Wald, Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, Pal Kruke Kristiansen, Anne Kolbjørnsen, Espen Huseby, Carol Cuddy, Mauricio Katz, Caroline Williams, Ashley Zalta, Jessica Levin, Jon Mallard) | Maniac |
| 2019 | Writers Guild of America, USA | Nominee WGA Award (TV) | Long Form Adapted (Nick Cuse, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Amelia Gray, Danielle Henderson, Mauricio Katz, Patrick Somerville, Caroline Williams) | Maniac |
| 2017 | Bram Stoker Awards | Nominee Bram Stoker Award | Screenplay (Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman) | It |
| 2017 | Fright Meter Awards | Nominee Fright Meter Award | Best Screenplay (Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman) | It |
| 2017 | St. Louis Film Critics Association, US | Nominee SLFCA Award | Best Adapted Screenplay (Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman) | It |
