| Cary Joji Fukunaga | |
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Cary Fukunaga talking about his film "Sin Nombre" in 2009 |
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| Born | July 10, 1977 Oakland, California |
| Occupation | filmmaker, writer and cinematographer |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer.
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Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, has lived in various places such as France and Japan, and now he resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish.[1] Fukunaga got his start as a camera intern and later applied to film school.[2]
Fukunaga graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History[3] in 1999[4] and attended Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble,[5] and New York University in the Graduate Film Program. 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. In addition to English, he is fluent in French and Spanish. He has a brother named Jeremy Fukunaga.[1]
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.[6] He made his feature film debut with Sin Nombre which he both wrote and directed. The film received a number of awards, including the directing award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, Fukunaga directed a new film adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell and Judi Dench. The film was released in 2011.
In May 2011, it was announced that Fukunaga would direct and co-write No Blood, No Guts, No Glory, a 2009 Black List script by Chase Palmer about "a spy and 20 Union soldiers in disguise who board a train in Georgia in order to pull off a heist that could bring a quick end to the Civil War".[7]