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Nicholas Pelecanos

  • Production Department
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Director
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Nicholas Pelecanos is known for Collateral Beauty (2016), Dumb and Dumber To (2014) and Back to Black (2024).
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    • Known for

    Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, and Jacob Latimore in Collateral Beauty (2016)
    Collateral Beauty
    6.8
    • Production Department
    • 2016
    Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
    Dumb and Dumber To
    5.6
    • Production Department
    • 2014
    Marisa Abela in Back to Black (2024)
    Back to Black
    6.3
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director(as Nick Pelecanos)
    • 2024
    Mailman (2023)
    Mailman
    Short
    • Director
    • 2023

    Credits

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    Production Department

    • Will Smith, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Naomie Harris, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, and Jacob Latimore in Collateral Beauty (2016)
      Collateral Beauty
      6.8
      • key production assistant
      • production assistant
      • 2016
    • Search Party (2016)
      Search Party
      7.6
      TV Series
      • key production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2016
    • Omari Hardwick in Power (2014)
      Power
      8.1
      TV Series
      • key set production assistant
      • 2016
    • John Turturro and Riz Ahmed in The Night Of (2016)
      The Night Of
      8.4
      TV Mini Series
      • key production assistant (as Nick Pelecanos)
      • 2016
    • The Characters (2016)
      The Characters
      5.5
      TV Series
      • key production assistant
      • production assistant
      • 2016
    • Flesh and Bone (2015)
      Flesh and Bone
      7.8
      TV Mini Series
      • production assistant
      • 2015
    • Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
      Dumb and Dumber To
      5.6
      • production assistant
      • 2014
    • Jane Lynch, Lea Michele, Naya Rivera, Mark Salling, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron, Kevin McHale, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushkowitz, Amber Riley, and Heather Elizabeth Morris in Glee (2009)
      Glee
      6.8
      TV Series
      • production assistant
      • 2014
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Redford, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, and Sebastian Stan in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
      Captain America: The Winter Soldier
      7.7
      • production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2014
    • Dagmara Dominczyk, Marcin Dorocinski, and Patrick Wilson in Jack Strong (2014)
      Jack Strong
      7.0
      • production assistant (uncredited)
      • 2014
    • Mark Strong in Low Winter Sun (2013)
      Low Winter Sun
      7.0
      TV Series
      • production assistant
      • 2013
    • Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (2013)
      House of Cards
      8.6
      TV Series
      • set production assistant
      • 2013
    • Treme (2010)
      Treme
      8.3
      TV Series
      • set production assistant
      • 2012

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Golden
      • second second assistant director
      • Completed
    • Colman Domingo, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Kerri Kenney, Marco Calvani, and Erika Henningsen in The Four Seasons (2025)
      The Four Seasons
      7.2
      TV Series
      • additional second assistant director
      • 2025
    • Aldis Hodge in Cross (2024)
      Cross
      7.2
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 2024
    • Colin Farrell in The Penguin (2024)
      The Penguin
      8.6
      TV Mini Series
      • additional second assistant director
      • 2024
    • Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram in Lady in the Lake (2024)
      Lady in the Lake
      6.0
      TV Mini Series
      • additional 2nd 2nd assistant director
      • 2024
    • Marisa Abela in Back to Black (2024)
      Back to Black
      6.3
      • 2nd 2nd assistant director: New York unit (as Nick Pelecanos)
      • 2024
    • Josh Charles, Jamie Hector, Jon Bernthal, and Wunmi Mosaku in We Own This City (2022)
      We Own This City
      7.6
      TV Mini Series
      • second second assistant director
      • second unit director
      • 2022
    • Invasion (2021)
      Invasion
      6.2
      TV Series
      • second second assistant director
      • 2021
    • Amber Stevens West in Run the World (2021)
      Run the World
      6.5
      TV Series
      • second second assistant director
      • 2021
    • The Plot Against America (2020)
      The Plot Against America
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • additional second assistant director
      • 2020
    • Donielle T. Hansley Jr. in Charm City Kings (2020)
      Charm City Kings
      6.6
      • second second assistant director
      • 2020
    • Bottom of the 9th (2019)
      Bottom of the 9th
      5.8
      • second second assistant director
      • 2019
    • James Franco, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., and Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Deuce (2017)
      The Deuce
      8.1
      TV Series
      • additional second assistant director
      • additional second second assistant director (as Nick Pelecanos)
      • 2017–2018

    Director

    • Mailman (2023)
      Mailman
      Short
      • directed by
      • 2023
    • Judith Hoag, George Pelecanos, Jay O. Sanders, Wale, Andrew White, Brendan Canty, Francisco Bulgarelli, Anwan Glover, Matthew Booras, Nathan Corbett, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Aaron Dean Eisenberg, Stephen Kinigopoulos, Kyle David Crosby, Jaci Jones, Joy Jones, Nicholas Pelecanos, Thaddeus Street, Jaye Ayres-Brown, Ben Mathews, and Marcus Craig-Bradford in DC Noir (2019)
      DC Noir
      5.4
      • Director
      • 2019

    Personal details

    • Alternative name
      • Nick Pelecanos
    • Parents
      • George Pelecanos

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