---
name: "Billy Ray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/billy-ray"
fi1m_id: "billy-ray"
imdb_id: "nm0712753"
tmdb_id: 21807
wikidata_id: "Q2679090"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "21 September 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-22T04:29:48.747688+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Billy Ray

## Identity

Billy Ray

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/billy-ray
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** billy-ray
- **IMDb ID:** nm0712753
- **TMDB ID:** 21807
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2679090
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2679090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712753/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21807

Writer. Born 21 September 1971 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 21 September 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Nina Jacobson](https://film.one/person/nina-jacobson.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 63 (1), 2010s 71 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 68 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 4, Action 3, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Science Fiction 2, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,397m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2679090, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712753/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21807

## Coming up

- *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping* (2026-11-18), Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Captain Phillips*](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md) (83)
- **Netflix:** [*The Hunger Games*](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games.md) (70)
- **Apple TV:** [*Terminator: Dark Fate*](https://film.one/film/terminator-dark-fate.md) (61)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Billy Ray is an American screenwriter and film director. He began writing for film and television in 1994 with *Color of Night* and has since written numerous features, including *Shattered Glass* (2003), which he also directed.

Ray wrote the screenplay for *The Hunger Games* (2012) and the Oscar-nominated screenplay for *Captain Phillips* (2013), for which he received a Writers Guild of America Award. His other credits include *State of Play* (2009), *Secret in Their Eyes* (2015), *Overlord* (2018), *Gemini Man* (2019), *Terminator: Dark Fate* (2019) and *Richard Jewell* (2019).

He is also the writer of the upcoming films *Animals* (2026) and *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping* (2026). Ray was born in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Terminator: Dark Fate* (2019), Fi1m 61, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-dark-fate.md)
- *Captain Phillips* (2013), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)
- *The Hunger Games* (2012), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games.md)
- *Flightplan* (2005), Fi1m 63, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/flightplan.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping* (2026), Screenplay — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping.md)
- *Animals* (2026), Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/animals.md)
- *Juk.* (2026), Story Consultant
- *The Comey Rule* (2020), series, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Richard Jewell* (2019), Screenplay
- *Terminator: Dark Fate* (2019), Screenplay — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-dark-fate.md)
- *Gemini Man* (2019), Screenplay
- *Overlord* (2018), Screenplay, Story
- *The Last Tycoon* (2017), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Story, Teleplay, Creator
- *Secret in Their Eyes* (2015), Screenplay, Director
- *The Breakup Girl* (2015), Producer
- *Captain Phillips* (2013), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)
- *Chasing Ice* (2012), Producer
- *The Hunger Games* (2012), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunger-games.md)
- *State of Play* (2009), Screenplay
- *Breach* (2007), Screenplay, Director
- *Flightplan* (2005), Writer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/flightplan.md)
- *Suspect Zero* (2004), Screenplay
- *Shattered Glass* (2003), Writer, Director
- *Hart's War* (2002), Screenplay
- *Legalese* (1998), Screenplay
- *Volcano* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Shooter* (1995), Screenplay
- *Earth 2* (1994), series, Story, Creator
- *Color of Night* (1994), Screenplay
- *J6*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Billy Ray](https://film.one/media/person/95835/gallery-538916148d45.jpg) Billy Ray — Philkon Phil Konstantin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/BillyRayByPhilKonstantin.jpg/1280px-BillyRayByPhilKonstantin.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Billy Ray](https://film.one/media/person/95835/gallery-69a2ed825127.jpg) Billy Ray — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Captain Phillips*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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