His birth name by his parents is Cary Juji Fukunaga.

[25] The series stars Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson and Michelle Monaghan.

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Fukunaga served as an executive producer for the HBO series he directed, True Detective. Fukunaga wrote and directed the short film Victoria para Chino (2004) while at NYU, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Student Academy Award in 2005. He has dark brown eyes and black hair. Then the US Weekly confirmed in May 2017 that the two are in a relationship. Internet Gushes Over True Detective Director After 2014 Emmys Win", "The Alienist: Jakob Verbuggen Replaces Cary Fukunaga as Director of TNT Series", "Emma Stone-Jonah Hill Series 'Maniac' For Netflix & Paramount TV Gets Production Start Date With Cary Fukunaga Directing", "Emma Stone and Jonah Hill set to reunite in new Netflix series Maniac", "A Netflix Limited Series from Cary Joji Fukunaga. The first season of True Detective, an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto, premiered on January 12, 2014, on the premium cable network HBO. Douglas Alexander Smith is a Canadian actor known for his work on the HBO series Big Love as Ben Henrickson, the eldest son of polygamist Bill Henrickson. The short films that he has written the screenplays for include Kofi (2003) and Victoria para chino (2004). Fukunaga was born in Alameda, California. On August 16, 2018, TNT ordered a sequel series based upon the 1997 follow-up novel The Angel of Darkness. His father was of Japanese-American descent, and later worked at the University of California, Berkley. The second season, titled The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, premiered on July 19, 2020. Internet Gushes Over True Detective Director After 2014 Emmys Win", "Cary Fukunaga Will Shoot Stephen King's It Next Summer", "Re-Adaptation of Stephen King's It Looking for New Pennywise", "Cary Fukunaga leaves Stephen King adaptation 'It, "Amanda Seyfried and Theo James to Headline Black Lung", "Cary Fukunaga Is Addicted to Cabin Porn", "2009 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards: We Live in Public, Push, Rough Aunties and The Maid (La Nana) Earn Top Jury Prizes; Audience Favorites Feature Afghan Star, An Education, The Cove and Push", https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Cary_Fukunaga&oldid=721850678, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2016, American film directors of Japanese descent, University of California, Santa Cruz alumni, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. He served as a camera operator on the short Glory at Sea (2008) (directed by Beasts of the Southern Wild director Benh Zeitlin), as a gaffer on the short film Just Make Believe (2008) (directed by Jadrien Steele), as an additional cinematographer on the TV documentary Small Steps: Creating the High School for Contemporary Arts (2007), assistant camera on the short film Dock (2004; directed by Nina Martinek), additional photography for the documentary Lockdown, USA (about the "War on Drugs" campaign and directed by Rebecca Chaiklin and Michael Skolnik), additional camera for Autumn's Eyes (2006; directed by Paola Mendoza and Gabriel Noble), a grip on the feature film Mango Kiss (2004; directed by Sascha Rice), and as an additional film loader on the feature film Black Cadillac (2003; directed by John Murlowski and starring Randy Quaid). [22] The movie was picked up by Netflix for a reported $12 million as part of an effort to expand into original films. [24], Fukunaga directed all eight episodes of the first season of the 2014 HBO TV series True Detective , which was written and created by novelist and screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto. [3] His mother, Gretchen May (Grufman), is Swedish-American,[4][5][6] and worked as a dental hygienist, and later as a college history instructor and university assistant professor of history, from whom Cary got his original interest in history. Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Rory Kinnear, and Ralph Fiennes reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, Billy Magnussen, and David Dencik joining the cast as new characters. You Should Be", "And Now, Cary Fukunaga's Beautiful Man-Braids", "Oh, Hello, Cary Joji Fukunaga! His father Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga is a third-generation American-Japanese.

The film was released in 2011 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design for Costume Designer Michael O'Connor and a 2012 Goya Award for Best European Film. The series received critical praise and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing for Fukunaga, who won. The 2012 Australian Film Institute awards as well as the 2011 British Independent Film Awards nominated Mia Wasikowska for a "Best Actress" award. The film was nominated for a 2012 BAFTA Award (Best Costume Design), a 2012 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (Best Costume Design), the 2012 Costume Designers Guild Awards (Excellence in Period Film), the 2012 Evening Standard British Film Awards (Best Technical Achievement), the 2011 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards (Best Costume Design), the 2011 Satellite Awards (Best Costume Design). Cary began his career as a director and writer at New York University in 2004. He went to Port Richmond High School in Staten Island, New York before attending NYU Tisch School of the Arts. [38] [39] Three weeks before production was slated to begin, Fukunaga left the project. In the same interview he said he was working on a project about Hiroshima and another on a book written by Alexandre Dumas. Fukunaga won a 2010 Premios ACE award for "Cinema – Best First Work."

[40]. Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, the son of a third-generation Japanese-American father, Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga, born in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, who worked for a generator company and later for the University of California, Berkeley; and a Swedish-American mother, Gretchen May Grufman, who worked as a dental hygienist and later as a history teacher. No Time to Die is a forthcoming spy film and the twenty-fifth instalment in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions.

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