Rian Johnson
Directing
1973-12-17 · Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Rian Craig Johnson (born December 17, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He made his directorial debut with the neo-noir mystery film Brick (2005), which received positive reviews and grossed nearly $4 million on a $450,000 budget. Transitioning to higher-profile films, Johnson achieved mainstream recognition for writing and directing the science-fiction thriller Looper (2012) to critical and commercial success. Johnson landed his largest project when he wrote and directed the space opera Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), which grossed over $1 billion. He returned to the mystery genre with Knives Out (2019) and its sequel Glass Onion (2022), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, respectively. Additionally, Johnson is also known for directing three highly acclaimed episodes for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), namely "Ozymandias," "Fly," and "Fifty-One"; for the latter, he received the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing—Drama Series in 2013. He also created a murder mystery series titled Poker Face for Peacock with Natasha Lyonne. Johnson was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rian Johnson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
TheatersA Place in Hell
2027 · Movie
TheatersThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026 · Movie
The Hawk
2026 · Series
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Movie
Frankenstein
2025 · Movie
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025 · Movie
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024 · Movie
3 Body Problem
2024 · Series
American Fiction
2023 · Movie
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
2023 · Movie
Fair Play
2023 · Movie
The Space Western of the Southwest
2023 · Movie
Poker Face
2023 · Series
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022 · Movie
Blood Relatives
2022 · Movie
Metal Lords
2022 · Movie
Scream
2022 · Movie
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021 · Movie
Last Night in Soho
2021 · Movie
Directors on Directors
2021 · Series
Capone
2020 · Movie
Knives Out
2019 · Movie
Scare Package
2019 · Movie
Destroyer
2018 · Movie
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018 · Series
Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle
2018 · Movie
The Last Jedi: Meet the Porgs
2018 · Movie
The Director and the Jedi
2018 · Movie
Balance of the Force
2018 · Movie
The Force of Sound
2018 · Movie
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017 · Movie
Baby Driver
2017 · Movie
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016 · Movie
The Hollars
2016 · Movie
The Invitation
2016 · Movie
Tales of Halloween
2015 · Movie
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · Series
Out of Print
2014 · Movie
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Series
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014 · Series
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013 · Movie
The World's End
2013 · Movie
The English Teacher
2013 · Movie
Welcome to the Jungle
2013 · Movie
Looper
2012 · Movie
The Outsider: A Looper's Story
2012 · Movie
The Woman
2011 · Movie
Brawler
2011 · Movie
Terriers
2010 · Series
The Life of the World to Come
2010 · Movie
The Brothers Bloom
2008 · Movie
Spike
2008 · Movie
Breaking Bad
2008 · Series
Building Brick
2006 · Movie
Brick
2006 · Movie
Escargots
2006 · Movie
May
2003 · Movie
People Are Dead
2002 · Movie
The Psychology of Dream Analysis
2002 · Movie
Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Marketing
2001 · Movie
Phyfutima
1998 · Movie
Evil Demon Golfball from Hell!!!
1997 · Movie
Greater Than a Tiger
1997 · Movie
Cleaning the Pool
1995 · Movie
Hey Lady, You Dropped Your Wallet!!!
1993 · Movie
Ninja Ko: Origami Master
1990 · Movie
Disinherited
Series
2034
Movie
Turpentine
Movie
Untitled Gene Kelly Project
Movie
Untitled Sci-Fi Rian Johnson Film
Movie