--- name: "Dan Gilroy" canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-gilroy" fi1m_id: "dan-gilroy" imdb_id: "nm0319659" tmdb_id: 57113 wikidata_id: "Q1159073" roles: ["Writer","Director"] born: "24 June 1959" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 70 average_as: "writer" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T14:17:42.982477+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." --- # Dan Gilroy ## Identity Dan Gilroy - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-gilroy - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** dan-gilroy - **IMDb ID:** nm0319659 - **TMDB ID:** 57113 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1159073 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gilroy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319659/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57113 Writer and director. Born 24 June 1959 in Santa Monica, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director - **Born:** 24 June 1959, Santa Monica, California, USA - **Active:** 2011–present - **Also known as:** Daniel Christopher Gilroy, 댄 길로이 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Tony Gilroy](https://film.one/person/tony-gilroy.md) - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (3), 2020s 86 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 64 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Genres:** Action 2, Action & Adventure 1, Adventure 1, Drama 1, Fantasy 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $843m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gilroy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0319659/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57113 ## Coming up - *Miami Vice '85* (2028-05-18), Screenplay ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Andor*](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) (86) - **Netflix:** [*Nightcrawler*](https://film.one/film/nightcrawler.md) (85) - **Apple TV:** [*The Bourne Legacy*](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-legacy.md) (54) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Dan Gilroy > Dan Gilroy writes people who get on in ugly trades and describe themselves in the language of a job application. When he trusts us to notice, as in *Nightcrawler*, the effect is chilling; when he explains, as in *The Bourne Legacy*, the film stalls. Louis Bloom, in *Nightcrawler* (2014), films car wrecks for the morning news and talks about it like a man at an interview. He has goals. He is a fast learner. He values the relationship. Gilroy wrote those lines and let Jake Gyllenhaal say them with complete sincerity, and that is the film's best idea: Bloom is frightening because he sounds like a good employee. The career behind it is an odd shape. Gilroy began as a journalist at Variety, wrote for hire from the late 1980s, got his first produced credit on *Freejack* (1992), and then spent a long stretch on minor work: *Chasers* (1994), *Two for the Money* (2005), *The Fall* (2006). He shared the screenplay of *The Bourne Legacy* (2012) with his brother Tony, who directed it. Then, in his fifties, he directed his own script and made the film that the rest had been building towards. *Roman J. Israel, Esq.* (2017), written for Denzel Washington, and *Velvet Buzzsaw* (2019), a thriller set in the art world, followed to a more mixed reception, with pacing the usual complaint. Since 2022 he has written six episodes of *Andor*, the series his brother created. The subject is nearly always someone prospering in a market for something unpleasant, and the recurring problem is how much Gilroy should say about it. *Nightcrawler* says the least and works best, though even there our complaint was that noticing suffering is for sale gets treated as the whole argument. *The Bourne Legacy* says the most. Its first hour is men in shirtsleeves telling each other about a programme, and we were bored, and then cross about being bored, because Robert Elswit's cold Alaskan frames and John Gilroy's patient cutting were plainly waiting outside the door. One scene in a laboratory, early and horrible, frightened us more than any chase in the series, and it is almost wordless. He is at his best when he stops talking. *Andor* suggests he knows it. The rebellion there is built out of debt, wages and bad decisions rather than speeches, and the patience pays off in people worth caring about, though the opening episodes spread out before the story has a direction. John Gilroy is in the cutting room again, and the family arrangement has started to look like a working method: Tony sets up the world, John cuts it, Dan writes the people trying to get by in it. He said of Bloom, "I did not want a character with an arc." He has held to that. A writer who refuses to let his people change needs somebody else to decide when a scene has gone on long enough, and so far he has been lucky in his brothers. ## Biography Dan Gilroy is an American screenwriter and film director. He was born on 24 June 1959 in Santa Monica, California, and graduated from Dartmouth College. Gilroy began his screenwriting career with credits including *Freejack* (1992) and *The Bourne Legacy* (2012), the latter written with his brother Tony Gilroy. He made his directorial debut with *Nightcrawler* (2014), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Other writing credits include *Real Steel* (2011), *Kong: Skull Island* (2017) and *Roman J. Israel, Esq.* (2017). He wrote six episodes of the Disney+ series *Andor* (2022–2025), created by his brother Tony Gilroy, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 2025. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Directed (1) - *Nightcrawler* (2014), Fi1m 85, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/nightcrawler.md) ### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these - *Andor* (2022), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) - *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md) - *The Bourne Legacy* (2012), Fi1m 54, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-legacy.md) ## Complete filmography (16) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Miami Vice '85* (2028), Screenplay - *Magazine Dreams* (2025), Producer - *Andor* (2022), series, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/andor.md) - *Velvet Buzzsaw* (2019), Director, Writer - *Roman J. Israel, Esq.* (2017), Director, Writer - *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/kong-skull-island.md) - *The Man Who Saw Too Much* (2015), Actor - *Nightcrawler* (2014), Director, Writer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/nightcrawler.md) - *The Bourne Legacy* (2012), Screenplay — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bourne-legacy.md) - *Real Steel* (2011), Story - *The Fall* (2006), Screenplay - *Two for the Money* (2005), Executive Producer, Screenplay - *Buddy* (1997), Thanks - *Chasers* (1994), Screenplay - *Freejack* (1992), Screenplay - *Faster, Cheaper, Better*, Writer, Director, Producer ## Gallery - ![Dan Gilroy](https://film.one/media/person/46588/gallery-b68909cbf178.jpg) Dan Gilroy — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Dan_Gilroy_-_Andor_2025.jpg/1280px-Dan_Gilroy_-_Andor_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dan Gilroy](https://film.one/media/person/46588/gallery-8b6dedbd4c2f.jpg) Dan Gilroy — Image via TMDB - ![Dan Gilroy](https://film.one/media/person/46588/gallery-0b320a6f8ca1.jpg) Dan Gilroy — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 2015: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Nightcrawler* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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