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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
2026
Screenplay
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
2019
Screenplay
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
2019
Screenplay
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
2019
Screenplay
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
2018
Screenplay, Story
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
2015
Screenplay, Director
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
2013
Screenplay
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
2012
Producer
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
2012
as Self - Screenwriter
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
2012
Screenplay
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
2009
Screenplay
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
2009
as Self
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
2007
as Himself
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
2007
Screenplay, Director
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
2005
Writer
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
2004
Screenplay
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
2003
Writer, Director
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
2002
Author
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
1998
Screenplay
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
1997
Screenplay
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
1995
Screenplay
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
1994
Screenplay
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
A film about the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, considered the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.

Animals
N/A
Writer
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
N/A
Screenplay
The perfect wife does the unimaginable when provoked by her husband's infidelity.