Billy Ray

Billy Ray

1971-09-21 Los Angeles, California, USA 25 Credits

Biography

Billy Ray (born 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director. He began writing for television and movies in 1994 with Color of Night. He has written numerous films, including the first Hunger Games film (2012), Richard Jewell (2019), and Captain Phillips (2013), earning an Oscar nomination for the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Ray (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

2026

Screenplay

Writing

Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games for the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter...

Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell

2019

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they...

Terminator: Dark Fate

Terminator: Dark Fate

2019

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to sav...

Gemini Man

Gemini Man

2019

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he bec...

Overlord

Overlord

2018

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy ...

Secret in Their Eyes

Secret in Their Eyes

2015

Screenplay, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own...

Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

2013

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship...

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice

2012

Producer

7.5
Producing

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. S...

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

2012

as Self - Screenwriter

8.2
Acting

A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and ma...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

2012

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to comp...

State of Play

State of Play

2009

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Tales from the Script

Tales from the Script

2009

as Self

6.5
Acting

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul...

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray

2007

as Himself

Acting

BILLY RAY has written or co-written the screenplays for Color of Night, Volcano and Hart's War and also created the sci-fi series Earth 2. In 2003, Ra...

Breach

Breach

2007

Screenplay, Director

6.6
Writing Directing

Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpect...

Flightplan

Flightplan

2005

Writer

6.5
Writing

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did s...

Suspect Zero

Suspect Zero

2004

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

2003

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff wr...

Hart's War

Hart's War

2002

Author

6.4

When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlistin...

Legalese

Legalese

1998

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

When an actress is charged with murder, a charming celebrity lawyer uses trickery to defend her against the press as well as the prosecution.

Volcano

Volcano

1997

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins ...

The Shooter

The Shooter

1995

Screenplay

4.8
Writing

A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.

Color of Night

Color of Night

1994

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense a...

J6

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

A film about the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, considered the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.

Animals

Animals

N/A

Writer

Writing

When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money ...

The Silent Wife

The Silent Wife

N/A

Screenplay

Writing

The perfect wife does the unimaginable when provoked by her husband's infidelity.