---
name: "Moritz Binder"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/moritz-binder"
fi1m_id: "moritz-binder"
imdb_id: "nm9415549"
tmdb_id: 2710966
wikidata_id: "Q95280591"
roles: ["Second unit director"]
born: "22 July 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-30T22:25:22.258407+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."
---

# Moritz Binder

## Identity

Moritz Binder

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/moritz-binder
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** moritz-binder
- **IMDb ID:** nm9415549
- **TMDB ID:** 2710966
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95280591
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Binder, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95280591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9415549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2710966

Second unit director. Born 22 July 1982 in Munich, West Germany [now Germany].

## Details

- **Work:** Second unit director
- **Born:** 22 July 1982, Munich, West Germany [now Germany]
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Binder, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95280591, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9415549/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2710966

## Coming up

- *ZOMA* (2027-02-18), Writer

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*September 5*](https://film.one/film/september-5.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Moritz Binder is a German screenwriter. He was born on 22 July 1982 in Munich. After working as a television journalist, he studied documentary film and television journalism at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, graduating in 2017.

Binder has written episodes for the long-running series *Tatort* (2021–2026) and other German television productions including *München Mord* (2020) and *Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl* (2023). He developed the story for the 2024 comedy *Everything's Fifty Fifty* and co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film *September 5* (2024) with Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and Binder won the Deutscher Filmpreis for the screenplay.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *September 5* (2024), Fi1m 74, Writer, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *ZOMA* (2027), Writer
- *Unvergänglich – Teil 1* (2026), Writer
- *September 5* (2024), Writer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/september-5.md)
- *Everything's Fifty Fifty* (2024), Story
- *Neue Geschichten vom Pumuckl* (2023), Writer
- *München Mord* (2014), series, Writer
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *September 5*

### Other awards — 1 won

- German Film Award for Best Screenplay 2025: German Film Award for Best Screenplay (won), for *September 5*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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