Biography
Julius Onah (born February 10, 1983) is an American-Nigerian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing the feature films, The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), Luce (2019), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Onah was born in Cross River State, Nigeria, in Okpoma. Adoga Onah, his father, was a diplomat from Nigeria. Before relocating to Arlington County, Virginia, he was raised in the Philippines, Nigeria, Togo, and the United Kingdom. After graduating from Ar...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Captain America: Brave New World
2025
Director, Screenplay
After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reas...
Bad Genius
2024
Writer
A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future.
Luce
2019
Director, Screenplay, Producer
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to li...
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018
Director
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
The Girl Is in Trouble
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful inves...
Big Man
2012
Director, Writer, Editor
Uzoma likes to play games. But games have consequences.
Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat
2010
Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.
Goodbye Chicken, Farewell Goat
2010
Director, Writer, Producer
Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.
Don't Look Back
2008
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
A young man in Lodz, Poland chases the dream of his love as time runs out.
The Boundary
2008
Producer, Director, Writer
A family on its way home is forced to deal with circumstances they would never hope for.
Szmolinsky
2007
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
In Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Karl Szmolinsky is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" to Pyong Yang....
Linus
2007
Writer, Director, Editor
During a typical morning in New York's East Village, two strangers are changed after a chance encounter. Linus, a street musician, is an East Village ...
Babette
2007
Writer, Producer, Editor
Babette is a woman in dire straits. An unemployed illegal immigrant from France, she must make a desperate choice when threatened with an eviction fro...
She Waits in the Restless Horizon
2005
as Adoga
Sue Faye, a Chinese American immigrant, and Adoga, an aspiring comic book artist from Nigeria, are faced with a difficult decision. Soon after an inno...
She Waits in the Restless Horizon
2005
Director, Writer, Editor
Sue Faye, a Chinese American immigrant, and Adoga, an aspiring comic book artist from Nigeria, are faced with a difficult decision. Soon after an inno...
Meditations/A Love Story
2004
as Declan
A young couple fall in and out of love as they muse on their lives.
Meditations/A Love Story
2004
Director, Writer
A young couple fall in and out of love as they muse on their lives.
Nigger
2004
The tale of a young man's struggle to establish a racial identity. Blending elements of '60s agit-prop political theater with surreal storytelling, th...
Nigger
2004
Director, Writer, Producer
The tale of a young man's struggle to establish a racial identity. Blending elements of '60s agit-prop political theater with surreal storytelling, th...
Samo Lives
N/A
Producer, Director, Writer
A biopic on american artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.