Biography
Jeff Nichols (born December 7, 1978; Little Rock) is an American filmmaker, writer and producer. His films are characterized by their Southern United States backdrop and ambience. He is also known for his longstanding collaboration with actor Michael Shannon, who has appeared in all of his feature films to date. After studying filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Nichols moved into the independent filmmaking scene with Shotgun Stories (2007). He went on to direct t...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Eric LaRue
2025
Executive Producer
Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a n...
A Texas Mermaid Movie
2024
Executive Producer
Eleven-year-old Katie and her dad reconnect after many years apart, with the help of a mermaid they meet in the San Marcos River. A Texas Mermaid Movi...
The Bikeriders
2024
Director, Writer
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerou...
Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols
2019
A conversation between Martin Scorsese and Jeff Nichols.
Long Way Back Home
2018
Director, Writer
A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucer...
Loving
2016
Writer, Director
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led ...
In the Radiant City
2016
Producer
A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 ...
Midnight Special
2016
Director, Screenplay
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Hellion
2014
Executive Producer
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and h...
Making a Scene
2013
Writer
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsibl...
Mud
2013
Writer, Director
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family an...
Take Shelter
2011
Director, Writer
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Shotgun Stories
2007
Director, Producer, Writer
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and bac...
Come Early Morning
2006
as Lee Young
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
Be Here to Love Me
2004
Production Manager
Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt.
Noble Chrome Pirates
2001
Writer, Director
Short student thesis film about a car mechanic who must choose between love and his dreams of drag racing success.
Alien Nation
N/A
Screenplay, Director
An alien race on Earth tries to co-exist with humans, despite the segregationist restrictions that have been placed on them.
The Passenger
N/A
Director
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into da...
Stella Maris
N/A
Director
Stella Maris is the story of a mathematician, twenty years old, admitted to the hospital with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag and one request:...
Yankee Comandante
N/A
Screenplay, Director
Two people rose to the rank of comandante during the Cuban Revolution. One was Che Guevara. The other was a man from Ohio.