Biography
J. C. Chandor is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Born Jeffrey McDonald Chandor on 24 November 1973 in Morristown, New Jersey, he grew up in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township. He graduated from Ridge High School in 1992 and received a bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster in 1996. For fifteen years before his feature debut he directed commercials.
Chandor wrote and directed the financial drama Margin Call (2011), which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin. He followed it with the survival film All Is Lost (2013), the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014) and the action film Triple Frontier (2019). He directed Kraven the Hunter (2024).
His work has received Academy Award and Golden Bear nominations, and A Most Violent Year won a National Board of Review award for Best Picture.
