--- name: "Duncan Jones" canonical: "https://film.one/person/duncan-jones" fi1m_id: "duncan-jones" imdb_id: "nm1512910" tmdb_id: 81850 wikidata_id: "Q552731" roles: ["Director","Writer"] born: "30 May 1971" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 63 average_as: "director" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-05T13:58:59.460736+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." --- # Duncan Jones ## Identity Duncan Jones - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/duncan-jones - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** duncan-jones - **IMDb ID:** nm1512910 - **TMDB ID:** 81850 - **Wikidata ID:** Q552731 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1512910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81850 Director and writer. Born 30 May 1971 in Beckenham, London, England, United Kingdom. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Writer - **Born:** 30 May 1971, Beckenham, London, England, United Kingdom - **Active:** 2009–2016 - **Also known as:** Duncan Zowie Jones, Zowie Bowie, 덩컨 존스 - **BAFTA Film Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as director, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 83 (1), 2010s 43 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Jones, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q552731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1512910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81850 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Moon*](https://film.one/film/moon.md) (83) - **Apple TV:** [*Warcraft*](https://film.one/film/warcraft.md) (43) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Duncan Jones > Duncan Jones is most persuasive when he keeps science fiction close to one troubled person. We rate *Moon* highly for its patient attention to Sam Rockwell, though the mystery loses pace as it supplies answers. In *Moon* (2009), Sam Rockwell's Sam Bell is isolated in space and increasingly uncertain about himself. Duncan Jones stays close to him, making the questions about identity matter because they trouble a person we have come to care about. We were moved by Rockwell's vulnerability, which makes the loneliness convincing even as the mystery loses some of its grip. Jones gives the performance time and allows a few welcome jokes. We recommend this thoughtful debut with a reservation about its suspense, rather than its quietness. *Source Code* (2011) carried that interest in psychological pressure into a thriller with a firm place for human drama. The video-game adaptation *Warcraft* (2016) then took Jones into franchise filmmaking, where pacing and execution drew criticism. *Mute* (2018), long in development and set in the same universe as *Moon*, was another ambitious undertaking with uneven results. We would be cautious about treating the move towards larger productions as evidence of progress; the smaller story remains our starting point. Jones has described the setting of *Moon* as secondary to its human drama, and Rockwell makes that choice persuasive. The enclosed storytelling belongs to an older science-fiction tradition, but the performance keeps its questions about identity from feeling remote. Writer Nathan Parker's engaging dialogue also gives Jones something worth lingering over between discoveries. There is pleasure in spending time with Bell, even when the film is not advancing our understanding of his predicament, and that helps explain why the uneven pace does not undo it. The difficulty comes when answers do arrive. Jones and Parker are less sure of how to move from one scene to the next once the puzzle becomes clearer, leaving stretches that seem to wait for the plot. The slower pace also makes the film's influences more distracting. We would welcome more suspense in those passages without asking Jones to hurry Rockwell through his work. Start with *Moon*, provided a tightly sustained mystery is not the evening's first requirement. ## Biography Duncan Jones is a British film director, producer and screenwriter. Born on 30 May 1971 in London, he is the son of musician David Bowie and model Angie Bowie. He studied at the College of Wooster and London Film School, and began his career directing commercials and the short film *Whistle* (2002). Jones made his feature debut with the science-fiction film *Moon* (2009), for which he also wrote the story. The film won him the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, as well as the British Independent Film Award for Best British Independent Film. His subsequent features include *Source Code* (2011), *Warcraft* (2016) and *Mute* (2018). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wwd.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Warcraft* (2016), Fi1m 43, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/warcraft.md) - *Moon* (2009), Fi1m 83, Story, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/moon.md) ## Complete filmography (10) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Rogue Trooper* (2026), Writer, Producer, Director - *In Our Blood* (2025), Executive Producer - *A Teacher* (2020), series, as Bartender - *Mute* (2018), Director, Screenplay - *Warcraft* (2016), Director, Writer — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/warcraft.md) - *Source Code* (2011), Director - *Moon* (2009), Story, Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/moon.md) - *Whistle* (2002), Director, Writer - *David Bowie: Roseland Ballroom, NYC* (2000), Director, Producer - *The Stream* (1999), Writer, Producer, Director ## Gallery - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-9993f059c329.jpg) Duncan Jones — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Duncan_Jones_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg/1280px-Duncan_Jones_by_Gage_Skidmore_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Duncan Jones, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Ripley (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-0f1e27a32cc7.jpg) Duncan Jones, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Ripley (2011) — Paul Hudson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/%27Source_code%27_premier_at_SXSW_2011.jpg/1280px-%27Source_code%27_premier_at_SXSW_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Duncan Jones (left), Vera Farmiga (center) and Michelle Monaghan (right) at the SXSW 2011 Source Code premiere on March 12, 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-2f30e022b106.jpg) Duncan Jones (left), Vera Farmiga (center) and Michelle Monaghan (right) at the SXSW 2011 Source Code premiere on March 12, 2011. — Paul Hudson from United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Duncan_Jones%2C_Vera_Farmiga_and_Michelle_Monaghan_at_the_Source_Code_premiere.jpg/1280px-Duncan_Jones%2C_Vera_Farmiga_and_Michelle_Monaghan_at_the_Source_Code_premiere.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Duncan Jones (left), Vera Farmiga (center) and Michelle Monaghan (right) at the SXSW 2011 Source Code premiere on March 12, 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-4f9d7b4fd630.jpg) Duncan Jones (left), Vera Farmiga (center) and Michelle Monaghan (right) at the SXSW 2011 Source Code premiere on March 12, 2011. — Photo by Paul Hudson from United Kingdom Cropped and retouched by Danyele, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Duncan_Jones%2C_Vera_Farmiga_and_Michelle_Monaghan_at_the_Source_Code_premiere_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Duncan_Jones%2C_Vera_Farmiga_and_Michelle_Monaghan_at_the_Source_Code_premiere_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-297e0ae7bd65.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-a54f52e639fe.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-68200d91dcc8.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB - ![Duncan Jones at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of Duncan Jones's film Moon. 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Photographer's blog post about this event. — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Duncan_Jones_Moon_2009_Tribeca_screening.jpg/1280px-Duncan_Jones_Moon_2009_Tribeca_screening.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-4ee5a521d476.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-3bf3dd4b1c5a.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB - ![Duncan Jones](https://film.one/media/person/100412/gallery-cf705d5bb2bb.jpg) Duncan Jones — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won - 2010: Best Newcomer (won), for *Moon* ### Other awards — 1 won - Hugo Awards 2010: Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (won), for *Moon* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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