Biography
Christopher John Weitz (born November 30, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work with his brother Paul on the comedy films American Pie and About a Boy; the latter earned the Weitz brothers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his other main works, Weitz directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books, wrote the screenpl...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Snow White
2025
Additional Writing
Following the benevolent King's disappearance, the Evil Queen dominated the once fair land with a cruel streak. Princess Snow White flees the castle w...

Afraid
2024
Director, Producer, Writer
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to a...

If You Were the Last
2024
Executive Producer
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining da...

The Creator
2023
Screenplay
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of h...

About My Father
2023
Producer
Encouraged by his girlfriend Ellie, Sebastian and his Italian immigrant father, Salvo, spend the 4th of July weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly ...

Pinocchio
2022
Screenplay, Producer
A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

Crush
2022
Executive Producer
When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a lo...

The Farewell
2019
Producer
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's dec...
Inside The Operation
2018
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at Operation Finale.

Prospect
2018
Producer
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the el...

Operation Finale
2018
Director
In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argent...

Boogeyman Pop
2018
Executive Producer
Set over the course of one summer weekend, a bat-wielding, masked killer in a rusted-out black Cadillac weaves in and out of three interlocking storie...

The Mountain Between Us
2017
Screenplay
Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain...

Columbus
2017
Producer
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midw...

The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
2017
as Self
The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' is a 2017 documentary detailing the production of the standalone Star Wars film. The feature...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2016
Screenplay
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

Cinderella
2015
Screenplay
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, ...

Spark: A Burning Man Story
2013
Executive Producer
Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art a...

A Better Life
2011
Director, Producer
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for t...

The Twilight Saga Soundtracks, Vol 1 : Music Videos and Performances
2010
Producer
Muse Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) / Paramore Decode / Death Cab For Cutie Meet Me On The Equinox / Cee-Lo Green What Part Of Forever / Any...

Heavy Rain
2010
as Himself
A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN. Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Neil L...

A Single Man
2009
Producer
The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event mak...

The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2009
Director, Screenplay
Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob...

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
2008
Producer
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night f...

The Golden Compass
2007
Screenplay, Director
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherwor...

Living with Lew
2007
A young Hollywood writer/director uses humor and unfailing optimism to fight ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and make his first film.

Living with Lew
2007
Producer
A young Hollywood writer/director uses humor and unfailing optimism to fight ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and make his first film.

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
2006
as Sheldon Schmeckler (voice)
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.

American Dreamz
2006
Executive Producer
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to ...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2005
as Martin Coleman
A husband and wife struggle to keep their marriage alive until they realize they are both secretly working as assassins. Now, their respective assignm...

In Good Company
2004
Producer
Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv...

See This Movie
2004
as Panel Discussion Moderator
Two bumbling but determined three-day film school graduates enter the Montreal World Film Festival with a feature film that doesn't exist.

American Wedding
2003
Executive Producer
With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk do...

About a Boy
2002
Director, Screenplay
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imag...

American Pie 2
2001
Executive Producer
After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As...

Down to Earth
2001
Director
Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure th...

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
Screenplay
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...

Chuck & Buck
2000
as Chuck
Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed beh...

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
2000
as Director
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood...

American Pie
1999
as Male Voice in Porn Film (voice)
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they n...

American Pie
1999
Producer
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they n...

Coapa Heights
1999
Script
A group of Mexican teenagers in the 90's face a series of ordeals in their neighborhood's dynamic of drugs and intrinsic decadent violence

Antz
1998
Screenplay
A neurotic worker ant in love with a rebellious princess rises to unlikely stardom when he switches places with a soldier. Signing up to march in a pa...
Husband's Secret
N/A
Producer
Three women whose lives unexpectedly interconnect after one of them discovers a devastating secret.
Merlin
N/A
Writer
The origin story of a young Merlin who would go on to become the mentor of the classic literary character King Arthur.