Cary Fukunaga

Cary Fukunaga (D.O.B- 10 July 1977) is an American film director, scriptwriter, and cinematographer. Cary was born in Oakland, California, USA. His father, Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga, was from a Japanese family who was born in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II World War II is a Malayalam information TV show on >> Read More... . His mother, Gretchen May Grufman, was of Swedish origin. His parents got divorced and later remarried, his father to an Argentine and his mother to a Mexican-American. His was a middle-class family living in the suburban Bay Area. He started writing fictional stories and little screenplays when he was in the fifth grade. At the age of 14, he wrote a 60 page Civil War epic about two brothers that were in the Seven Days campaign and were in a field hospital and fall in love with the same nurse. Initially wanting to be a pro-snowboarder, he made a switch to filmmaking in his mid-twenties. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from University of California and later attended Institut d'études Politiques (IEP) de Grenoble. He joined New York University’s Tisch School of Arts in their grad film program three years after college.

Meanwhile, he worked in San Francisco and then Los Angeles crewing on various music videos and a few obscure indie features. His first job when he got to L.A. was assisting the cameraman on the music video for Destiny’s Child’s “ Survivor Click to look into! >> Read More... .” While at NYU, he directed the short film “Victoria Para Chino”, which he wrote as well. It was screened at Sundance Film Festival and also fetched him a Student Academy Award. Kofi and Sleepwalking in the Rift were two more short films written and directed by him. His first feature film was “Sin Nombre”. It was the story of a Honduran girl trying to immigrate to the U.S.A., and a boy caught up in the violence of gang life who also needs to escape. The critics praised the movie, heaping praises on Cary’s direction. It won numerous awards, including those for direction and cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. His second film, Jane Eyre, was a cinematic adaptation of the novel of the same name. The reviews were highly favorable. The film received many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design.

He directed all the episodes of the first season of highly acclaimed HBO TV series True Detective. Cary won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Director for the show. He is serving as an executive producer for the second season of the show. His latest venture, Beasts of No Nation, a war drama about a young boy who survives as his country goes through a horrific war received universal critical acclaim and was a favorite at various international film festivals. Cary has worked as a cinematographer and as a camera operator also on various short film projects. He currently lives in New York City. He dated actress Michelle Williams Bio coming soon... >> Read More... for a short time. He considers screenplay writer Naomi Foner as a guide. He has been awarded several grants, namely, USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the John H. Johnson Film Award / Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary. In his short career, he has risen to great heights and is considered one of the upcoming talents to look up to.