Rian Johnson
Known for: Directing
Born: December 17, 1973
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
61 movies · 12 TV shows, newest first
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A Place in Hell
2027
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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
2026
5.3
The Hawk
2026
7.2
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
7.6
Frankenstein
2025
5.5
Netflix Tudum 2025
2025
8.0
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024
7.5
3 Body Problem
2024
7.3
American Fiction
2023
6.1
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
2023
6.4
Fair Play
2023
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The Space Western of the Southwest
2023
7.5
Poker Face
2023
7.0
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
4.6
Blood Relatives
2022
6.8
Metal Lords
2022
6.7
Scream
2022
7.6
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
7.3
Last Night in Soho
2021
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Directors on Directors
2021
5.0
Capone
2020
7.8
Knives Out
2019
5.6
Scare Package
2019
5.9
Destroyer
2018
7.5
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018NR
The Last Jedi: Meet the Porgs
2018
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Lighting the Spark: Creating the Space Battle
2018
7.2
The Director and the Jedi
2018
7.0
Balance of the Force
2018
8.3
The Force of Sound
2018
6.7
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
7.4
Baby Driver
2017
7.5
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016
6.3
The Hollars
2016
6.4
The Invitation
2016
5.7
Tales of Halloween
2015
5.1
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
5.7
Out of Print
2014
8.5
BoJack Horseman
2014
7.0
The Real History of Science Fiction
2014
2.0
Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
8.4
No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad
2013
6.8
The World's End
2013
5.6
The English Teacher
2013
5.0
Welcome to the Jungle
2013
6.9
Looper
2012
1.0
The Outsider: A Looper's Story
2012
6.1
The Woman
2011
4.0
Brawler
2011
8.0
Terriers
2010
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The Life of the World to Come
2010
6.6
The Brothers Bloom
2008
1.9
Spike
2008
9.0
Breaking Bad
20083.0
Building Brick
2006
6.8
Brick
2006
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Escargots
2006
6.6
May
2003
4.5
People Are Dead
2002
5.6
The Psychology of Dream Analysis
2002
2.8
Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Marketing
20019.0
Phyfutima
1998
5.9
Evil Demon Golfball from Hell!!!
1997
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Greater Than a Tiger
1997
5.0
Cleaning the Pool
1995
5.5
Hey Lady, You Dropped Your Wallet!!!
1993
4.0
Ninja Ko: Origami Master
1990NR
Untitled Gene Kelly Project
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2034
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Untitled Sci-Fi Rian Johnson Film
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Turpentine
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Disinherited
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