Biography
Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Magazine Dreams
2025
Producer
Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fier...
Velvet Buzzsaw
2019
Director, Writer
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovere...
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017
Director, Writer
Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontma...
Kong: Skull Island
2017
Screenplay
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
The Man Who Saw Too Much
2015
A film about fragility; about a man obsessed with photographing the accident who discovered that the fate of others was his way of connecting to life....
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
2015
as Self
The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of the ill fated "Superman Lives" movie, that was to b...
Nightcrawler
2014
Director, Writer
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the ...
The Bourne Legacy
2012
Screenplay
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
Real Steel
2011
Story
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up w...
The Fall
2006
Screenplay
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic...
Two for the Money
2005
Executive Producer, Screenplay
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Buddy
1997
Thanks
An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Chasers
1994
Screenplay
Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip...
Freejack
1992
Screenplay
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a...
Faster, Cheaper, Better
N/A
Writer, Director, Producer
Spans 20 years in multiple locales with a myriad of characters in interwoven stories that follow a union foreman, a young entrepreneur, an indoor farm...
Untitled Miami Vice Film
N/A
Writer
Plot TBD. Based on the characters of the popular 80s show.