Biography
Stephen Gaghan (/ˈɡeɪɡən/ GAY-gən; born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Syriana, which he wrote and directed. He also wrote and directed the thriller Abandon, the family film Dolittle, and the drama Gold. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Gaghan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Dolittle
2020
Director, Screenplay
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself...
Gold
2016
Director
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luck...
After Earth
2013
Script Consultant
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Ra...
Syriana
2005
Screenplay, Director
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...
Havoc
2005
Story, Screenplay
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But pr...
Alfie
2004
as Adam
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
The Alamo
2004
Screenplay
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at th...
Abandon
2002
Director, Writer
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a t...
Traffic
2000
Screenplay
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...
Inside Traffic: The Making of 'Traffic'
2000
as Self
Rules of Engagement
2000
Screenplay
A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.
Swingers
1996
as Onlooker at Model Party Entrance (uncredited)
After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his...
Candy Store
N/A
Director, Screenplay, Producer
The crime thriller, from a script Gaghan wrote with Shannon Burke.
Billion Dollar Spy
N/A
Writer
Set against the high-stakes backdrop of the late Cold War, Adolf Tolkachev, an ordinary man who risks everything to pass thousands of pages of top-sec...
Heaven Can Wait
N/A
Writer
Not a remake of the same name, but will feature the same concept of the main character plucked away before his time.
Billion-Dollar Ransom
N/A
Screenplay
Five members of a billionaire's family get kidnapped at the same moment, from different locations—for the unthinkable ransom of a billion dollars.