- Born
- Nickname
- Cary Fukunaga
- Height6′ 1½″ (1.87 m)
- Cary Joji Fukunaga is a Japanese-American film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and producer from Oakland, California who is known for directing the James Bond film No Time to Die, Kofi, Beasts of No Nation, Jane Eyre and Sin Nombre. He co-wrote the 2017 film adaptation of the Stephen King book It. He directed several episodes of the television show True Detective.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates
- ParentsAnthony Shuzo FukunagaGretchen May (Grufman)
- RelativesJeremy Fukunaga(Sibling)
- Films often feature a child dying or loss of innocence
- Long Tracking Shots
- Cary's father is from a Japanese family, and was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. Cary's maternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, and Cary's maternal grandmother's ancestry is English and German.
- First American director to direct an official James Bond film - No Time to Die (2021).
- In addition to English, he is fluent in French and Spanish.
- Originally attached to direct It (2017) with Will Poulter set to star as Pennywise. Once Cary Fukunaga left the project Will Poulter remained on board with Andy Muschietti signed on to direct. Poulter left the project and was replaced by Bill Skarsgård.
- Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.
- When I see an image in my head that compels me, where there's this mystery about what's going to happen next or could happen next, I'll be intrigued. There are so many scripts that you read, and you know exactly what's going to happen, and there aren't too many where you can't tell within the first 20 pages where it's going.
- Have you seen [Matthew] McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.
- I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits, drawings, letters that formed outlines of significant things in our relationship. Art. I just used art in general. It usually worked.
- I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
- 'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.
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