--- name: "Joachim Rønning" canonical: "https://film.one/person/joachim-rnning" fi1m_id: "joachim-rnning" imdb_id: "nm1461392" tmdb_id: 20307 wikidata_id: "Q1782299" roles: ["Director"] born: "30 May 1972" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 47 average_as: "director" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-05T15:03:06.122177+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." --- # Joachim Rønning ## Identity Joachim Rønning - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joachim-rnning - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** joachim-rnning - **IMDb ID:** nm1461392 - **TMDB ID:** 20307 - **Wikidata ID:** Q1782299 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_R%C3%B8nning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1782299, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1461392/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20307 Director. Born 30 May 1972 in Sandefjord, Norway. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 30 May 1972, Sandefjord, Norway - **Active:** 2017–present - **Also known as:** 喬奇姆·羅寧, 요아킴 뢰닝, ヨアキム・ローニング - **Average Fi1m score:** 47, as director, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 46 (2), 2020s 50 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 47 to 46 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 3 under 60 - **Genres:** Adventure 3, Action 2, Fantasy 2, Family 1, Science Fiction 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,430m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_R%C3%B8nning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1782299, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1461392/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20307 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*TRON: Ares*](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) (50), [*Maleficent: Mistress of Evil*](https://film.one/film/maleficent-mistress-of-evil.md) (46), [*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales*](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales.md) (45) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Joachim Rønning > Joachim Rønning is a careful, well-mannered director of adventure films who hires good people and is at his best on open water. Handed a studio franchise, he delivers something handsome with nothing much to say; we would rather see him on a raft. The best thing in *TRON: Ares* (2025) is a chase, and the best thing in *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017) is a robbery. Joachim Rønning stages both the way a man raised on Spielberg and Zemeckis would: the geography is plain, the vehicles do the talking, and it is over before it wears out its welcome. Around each sits a long film full of people explaining things and a script that never works out what it wants. That is his studio career so far: one good set piece in a franchise that only asked him to be competent. He came up in Norway with Espen Sandberg, a childhood friend. The two made shorts and commercials under the name Roenberg, then features together: *Bandidas* (2006), a Western comedy; *Max Manus: Man of War* (2008), a Second World War drama; and *Kon-Tiki* (2012), the raft across the Pacific that got them noticed abroad and, after it, a call from Jerry Bruckheimer. The partnership ended, amicably by all accounts, after *Pirates*, and Rønning has worked alone since: *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil* (2019), *Young Woman and the Sea* (2024), shot largely on open water, and *TRON: Ares*. The pattern is easy to read. Give him a true story and a body of water and he is patient and practical; that is what admirers of *Kon-Tiki* and *Young Woman and the Sea* praise, and we have no reason to doubt them. Give him a franchise and he becomes a good foreman. He and Sandberg were brought in to get *Pirates* back on the water and down to a sensible length, and at 129 minutes they managed the second, while Jeff Nathanson's script ran the first film again with the life let out and Johnny Depp did an impression of himself. Javier Bardem, at least, earned his floating fringe. In *TRON: Ares* the hiring is again impeccable. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross wrote the best thing in the film by some distance, the photography is handsome, and Jared Leto, asked what a machine would want out here, declines to answer. Rønning gives every department room and lets the script say almost nothing, several times. We sat up for that chase, which is cut clean and knows where everything is, and then we spent the last stretch of *TRON: Ares* waiting for the film to say something it had already failed to say twice, and by the end we were bored and faintly cross about it. Nothing in it is lazy, which is the frustrating part. It is the work of someone who takes the job seriously and does not seem to have asked what the film was for. The Norwegian films and the one on the sea suggest a director who likes real weather and real distance and knows how to shoot both. The studio films suggest one who will do what he is asked, and do it well. Somebody should give him a boat and a true story with no franchise attached, and then we would like to see what he does. ## Biography Joachim Rønning is a Norwegian film director. He grew up in Sandefjord and attended Stockholms Filmskola in Sweden from 1992 to 1994. He began his professional career directing with childhood friend Espen Sandberg, with whom he co-directed several early features. Rønning's credits include *Bandidas* (2006) and *Max Manus: Man of War* (2008), both co-directed with Sandberg; *Kon-Tiki* (2012); *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017); *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil* (2019); *Young Woman and the Sea* (2024); and *TRON: Ares* (2025). He also directed episodes of the series *Marco Polo* (2014). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *TRON: Ares* (2025), Fi1m 50, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) - *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil* (2019), Fi1m 46, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/maleficent-mistress-of-evil.md) - *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Fi1m 45, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales.md) ## Complete filmography (15) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *TRON: Ares* (2025), Director — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/tron-ares.md) - *Young Woman and the Sea* (2024), Executive Producer, Director - *Maleficent: Mistress of Evil* (2019), Director — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/maleficent-mistress-of-evil.md) - *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales* (2017), Director — Fi1m 45, [page](https://film.one/film/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales.md) - *Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes* (2015), Executive Producer - *Marco Polo* (2014), series, Director - *Beatles* (2014), Executive Producer - *Kon-Tiki* (2012), Director - *Max Manus: Man of War* (2008), Director - *The Cubist* (2007), Director, Writer - *Bandidas* (2006), Director - *Dag 1* (1997), Director, Writer - *Micro*, Director - *Here Be Monsters*, Director, Screenplay, Story - *Halftime Hero*, Producer ## Gallery - ![Joachim Rønning](https://film.one/media/person/7911/gallery-6c6c50195e18.jpg) Joachim Rønning — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Joachim_Ronning_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Joachim_Ronning_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Norwegian film director Joachim Rønning interviewed by Funweek.it (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/7911/gallery-739a601de9fd.png) Norwegian film director Joachim Rønning interviewed by Funweek.it (2024) — Funweek.it, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Joachim_R%C3%B8nning_Funweek.it_2024.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Joachim Rønning](https://film.one/media/person/7911/gallery-2e6114bb6915.jpg) Joachim Rønning — Image via TMDB - ![Joachim Rønning](https://film.one/media/person/7911/gallery-5bdc67d32fb3.jpg) Joachim Rønning — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2013: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Kon-Tiki* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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