---
name: "Jon Watts"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jon-watts"
fi1m_id: "jon-watts"
imdb_id: "nm1218281"
tmdb_id: 1293994
wikidata_id: "Q18519749"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "28 June 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-19T12:11:50.491207+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."
---

# Jon Watts

## Identity

Jon Watts

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jon-watts
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jon-watts
- **IMDb ID:** nm1218281
- **TMDB ID:** 1293994
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18519749
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Watts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18519749, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218281/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1293994

Director and writer. Born 28 June 1981 in Fountain, Colorado, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 28 June 1981, Fountain, Colorado, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Jonathan Watts, ג'ון וואטס
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Amy Pascal](https://film.one/person/amy-pascal.md), [Chris McKenna](https://film.one/person/chris-mckenna.md), [Erik Sommers](https://film.one/person/erik-sommers.md), [Jon Favreau](https://film.one/person/jon-favreau.md), [Kevin Feige](https://film.one/person/kevin-feige.md), [Tom Holland](https://film.one/person/tom-holland.md), [Marisa Tomei](https://film.one/person/marisa-tomei.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (2), 2020s 74 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Science Fiction 3
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,935m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Watts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18519749, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1218281/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1293994

## Coming up

- *Final Destination 7* (2028-05-11), Producer

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Spider-Man: No Way Home*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-no-way-home.md) (74), [*Spider-Man: Homecoming*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-homecoming.md) (74), [*Spider-Man: Far From Home*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-far-from-home.md) (67)
- **HBO Max:** [*Final Destination Bloodlines*](https://film.one/film/final-destination-bloodlines.md) (74)

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

## Fi1m on Jon Watts

> Jon Watts is worth watching for the people he lets us care about, especially Tom Holland’s uncertain Peter Parker. His superhero spectacle is less persuasive, and familiar faces sometimes get more time than they earn.

Tom Holland lets Peter Parker look painfully young in *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021), especially when trying to do the right thing leaves him unsure what to do next. Jon Watts gives that uncertainty time to register. We were moved by Holland’s strained face as Peter tried to meet a responsibility he was scarcely ready for. Zendaya’s MJ and Jacob Batalon’s Ned Leeds matter because Watts lets their relationships with Peter occupy space between the fights. This is where we rate him: directing people whose worries remain worth following when the spectacle stops.

His early features, the horror film *Clown* (2014) and the thriller *Cop Car* (2015), were co-written with Christopher Ford. They built tension in everyday American settings, on a smaller scale than the superhero films that followed. *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (2017) and *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019) gave him much more to manage, but Peter’s school life kept young people’s concerns in view. It was a sensible appointment for films that needed their hero to seem young.

By *No Way Home*, keeping that intimacy takes effort. Willem Dafoe’s Norman Osborn is unsettling because he enjoys being dangerous, and Watts gives him room to make that pleasure felt. Alfred Molina’s Dr Otto Octavius can turn dialogue into a confrontation. The computer-generated fights are visually ordinary and seldom offer a comparable threat. There is pleasure in these returns, but recognition is too often allowed to hold up an already crowded story.

After the trilogy, Watts directed and co-wrote *Wolfs* (2024), with Brad Pitt and George Clooney. His story credit on *Final Destination Bloodlines* (2025) brings him back to horror, though it would be careless to treat it as a film he directed. We enjoyed its inventive deaths and jokes, even if the rest cannot quite match the opening twenty minutes. Start with *No Way Home* if the earlier Spider-Man films are familiar, and watch how much Holland can do when Watts gives him time.

## Biography

Jon Watts is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on 28 June 1981 in Fountain, Colorado, and studied film at New York University.

Watts directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe films *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (2017), *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019) and *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021). He also directed and co-wrote *Clown* (2014), *Cop Car* (2015) and *Wolfs* (2024). Watts provided the story and served as a producer on *Final Destination Bloodlines* (2025).

His other credits include directing episodes of the television series *The Old Man* (2022) and *Star Wars: Skeleton Crew* (2024). He is married to producer Dianne McGunigle.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Directed (3) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-no-way-home.md)
- *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019), Fi1m 67, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-far-from-home.md)
- *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (2017), Fi1m 74, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-homecoming.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Final Destination Bloodlines* (2025), Fi1m 74, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/final-destination-bloodlines.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *Final Destination 7* (2028), Producer
- *Murder 101* (2026), series, Executive Producer
- *Never Change!* (2026), Producer
- *Final Destination Bloodlines* (2025), Producer, Story — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/final-destination-bloodlines.md)
- *Thunderbolts** (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/thunderbolts.md)
- *Star Wars: Skeleton Crew* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Wolfs* (2024), Director, Writer, Producer
- *The Old Man* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Spider-Man: No Way Home* (2021), Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-no-way-home.md)
- *Peter's To-Do List* (2019), Director
- *Spider-Man: Far From Home* (2019), Director — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-far-from-home.md)
- *Spider-Man: Homecoming* (2017), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-homecoming.md)
- *A Fan's Guide to Spider-Man Homecoming* (2017), Director
- *Creative Control* (2016), as Commercial Director
- *Cop Car* (2015), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Clown* (2014), Writer, Director
- *The Last of the Great Romantics* (2014), Executive Producer
- *First Winter* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Magic Valley* (2011), Associate Producer
- *Clown* (2010), Writer, Director
- *The Onion's Future News From The Year 2137* (2010), Director
- *The Invisible Dog* (2005), Director
- *Clay Pride: Being Clay in America* (2001), Writer, Animation, Director
- *Chips*, as Moron · Director
- *Muppet Man*, Director
- *Disaster Wedding*, Producer
- *Murder 101*, Director, Producer
- *Not Safe for Life*, Producer
- *Wild Ones*, Producer

## Gallery

- ![Jon Watts speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Spider-Man: Homecoming", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-da3d6b2cb8d8.jpg) Jon Watts speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Spider-Man: Homecoming", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Ple — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Jon_Watts_%2828545874812%29.jpg/1280px-Jon_Watts_%2828545874812%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jon Watts speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-ee8657f0f6bf.jpg) Jon Watts speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Jon_Watts_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Jon_Watts_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jon Watts](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-644dd8d9cfc0.jpg) Jon Watts — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Jon_Watts_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg/1280px-Jon_Watts_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marvel Studios panelists at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-00868b260ef8.jpg) Marvel Studios panelists at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Marvel_Studios_panelists_%2828047068384%29.jpg/1280px-Marvel_Studios_panelists_%2828047068384%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jon Watts](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-70e1a068ec8c.jpg) Jon Watts — Image via TMDB
- ![Jon Watts](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-383aa5d5fe7b.jpg) Jon Watts — Image via TMDB
- ![Jon Watts](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-e97071359595.jpg) Jon Watts — Image via TMDB
- ![Marvel Studios panelists at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski](https://film.one/media/person/8531/gallery-5e7145e7155a.jpg) Marvel Studios panelists at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Ski — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Marvel_Studios_panelists_%2828664364975%29.jpg/1280px-Marvel_Studios_panelists_%2828664364975%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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