Biography
Mathew Jay Roach (born June 14, 1957) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the Austin Powers film series, Meet the Parents, Dinner for Schmucks, The Campaign, Trumbo, and Bombshell. Roach also earned critical acclaim for directing and producing the political television drama films Recount, Game Change, and All the Way. He produced the films under his Everyman Pictures banner. He has received four Primetime Emmy Awards from six nominations for his work. Description above fro...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Meet the Parents 4
2026
Producer
The fourth installment in the franchise. Plot TBA.

The Roses
2025
Director, Producer
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed i...

Coastal Elites
2020
Executive Producer, Director
A socially distanced comedic satire that spotlights five characters breaking down and breaking through as they grapple with politics, culture, and the...

Bombshell
2019
Director, Producer
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought do...

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
Producer
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

All the Way
2016
Director, Executive Producer
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his...

Grimsby
2016
Thanks
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plo...

Sisters
2015
Producer
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

Trumbo
2015
Producer, Director
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

The Campaign
2012
Director, Producer
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Represen...

The Dictator
2012
Thanks
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Game Change
2012
Director, Executive Producer
During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his r...

Little Fockers
2010
Producer
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. A...

Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Director, Producer
Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim pla...

Brüno
2009
Producer
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and p...

Smother
2008
Producer
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young...

Recount
2008
Director, Executive Producer
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging cha...

Charlie Bartlett
2008
Producer
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find ...

Monty Python Conquers America
2008
as Self
This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and shaped an entire generation of American comics, fo...

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2006
Producer
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations...

Earth to America
2005
Director
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environment.

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
2005
as Self (archive footage)
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005
Producer
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a res...

Meet the Fockers
2004
Producer, Director
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focke...

50 First Dates
2004
Executive Producer
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he rea...

Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002
Director
The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—...

Meet the Parents
2000
Director, Producer
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent...

Mystery, Alaska
1999
Director
In Mystery, Alaska, life revolves around the legendary Saturday hockey game at the local pond. But everything changes when the hometown team unexpecte...

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999
Director
When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with ...

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997
Director
As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop me...
Sound of Peace
1997
Cinematography
"Sound of Peace" is a cinematic meditation. Utilizing the deep resonance of the didgeridoo played by Nawang Khechong, a former Buddhist Monk the film ...

Blown Away
1994
Associate Producer, Story
Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb th...

Lifepod
1993
Writer
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The pas...

Zoo Radio
1991
Director
Under the terms of their father's will, rival radio station managers Burt and John Powell must compete with each other for their inheritance. Burt's K...

Tales of the Unknown
1990
Director of Photography
Somewhere, just beyond your doorstep, lies the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unexplainable... A shadowy world where curiosity and intrigue tempt you...
Odyssey
1986
Cinematography
The film is a visual poem shot in the Anza-Borrego Desert. The work portrays the odyssey of a woman/goddess/mankind from birth into innocence, through...
Untitled Ocean's Eleven Prequel
N/A
Director, Producer
Set during the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, the film follows the couple as they teach their children how to steal from the rich.