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Cary Joji Fukunaga Biography
Birth Name:Cary Joji Fukunaga
Birth Place:Oakland, California, United States
Profession Producer, Director, Writer, Camera department, Actor, Cinematographer
Fast Facts
- Received the 2007 Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary
- Earned a Student Academy Award at NYU
- Named a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2008
- Graduated from New York University with a master's degree in film
- Graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz
- Started out filming a commercial for Levi's Go Forth campaign
- Best known for his work on the series "True Detective․"
Awards
- 2004Audience Award-Best Narrative Student Short: winner
- 2004Jury Prize-Best Student Short: winner
- 2005Jury Award-Best Student Film: winner
- 2005BAFTA/LA Award for Excellence - Honorable Mention-: winner
- 2005Jury Prize-Best Student Film: winner
- 2005Best Short Film-: winner
- 2005Audience Award-Best Short: winner
- 2005Best Short-: winner
- 2005Best College Short-: winner
- 2005Silver Medal-Narrative: winner
- 2005Short Filmmaking Award - Honorable Mention-: winner
- 2006Ashland Independent Film Award-Best Student Film: winner
- 2009EDA Award-Best Non-English Language Film: nominated
- 2009AFCA Award-Best Foreign Language Film: winner
- 2009CFCA Award-Most Promising Filmmaker: nominated
- 2009Grand Special Prize-: nominated
- 2009Jury Special Prize-: winner
- 2009New Director's Award-: winner
- 2009FIPRESCI Prize-: winner
- 2009Best Directorial Debut-: winner
- 2009Bronze Horse-: nominated
- 2009Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic: nominated
- 2009Directing Award-Dramatic: winner
- 2009Golden Eye Award-Best International Feature Film: nominated
- 2010Independent Spirit Award-Best Director: nominated
- 2010Premio ACE-Cinema - Best First Work: winner
- 2011Film and Literature Award-: nominated
- 2012Goya-Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea): nominated
- 2014INOCA TV-Best Directing for a Drama Series: nominated
- 2014OFTA Television Award-Best Direction in a Drama Series: nominated
- 2014Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series: winner
- 2014Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Drama Series: nominated
- 2015Best Film-Official Competition: nominated
- 2015Capri Director Award-: winner
- 2015DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Dramatic Series: nominated
- 2015Ghana Movie Award-Best Director: winner
- 2015Ghana Movie Award-Best Adapted or Original Screenplay: nominated
- 2015Ghana Movie Award-Best Cinematography: winner
- 2015Image Award-Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series: nominated
- 2015PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama: nominated
- 2015SLFCA Award-Best Cinematography: nominated
- 2015Golden Lion-: nominated
- 2015Green Drop Award-: nominated
- 2015CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award-: winner
- 2016Spotlight Award-: nominated
- 2016Black Reel-Outstanding Motion Picture: nominated
- 2016Cinema for Peace Award-Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year: winner
- 2016Independent Spirit Award-Best Director: nominated
- 2016Independent Spirit Award-Best Cinematography: nominated
- 2016Independent Spirit Award-Best Feature: nominated
- 2017Bram Stoker Award-Screenplay: nominated
- 2017Fright Meter Award-Best Screenplay: nominated
- 2017SLFCA Award-Best Adapted Screenplay: nominated
- 2018Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Limited Series: nominated
- 2019Black Reel-Outstanding TV Movie/Limited Series: nominated
- 2019DGA Award-Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series: nominated
- 2019PGA Award-Outstanding Producer of Limited Series Television: nominated
- 2019WGA Award (TV)-Long Form Adapted: nominated
- 2022BAFTA Film Award-Outstanding British Film of the Year: nominated
- 2022Honorable Mention-Best Director: winner
- 2024Primetime Emmy-Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series: nominated
- 2025Gotham TV Award-Breakthrough Nonfiction Series: nominated