---
name: "Robert Eggers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-eggers"
fi1m_id: "robert-eggers"
imdb_id: "nm3211470"
tmdb_id: 138781
wikidata_id: "Q20826736"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "7 July 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-23T04:19:12.736566+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."
---

# Robert Eggers

## Identity

Robert Eggers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-eggers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-eggers
- **IMDb ID:** nm3211470
- **TMDB ID:** 138781
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20826736
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eggers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20826736, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3211470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138781

Director and writer. Born 7 July 1983 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 7 July 1983, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Also known as:** 로버트 에거스, Robert Houston Eggers, 罗伯特·埃格斯, رابرت اگرز, روبرت إغرز
- **Frequently works with:** [Willem Dafoe](https://film.one/person/willem-dafoe.md), [Aaron Taylor-Johnson](https://film.one/person/aaron-taylor-johnson.md), [Lily-Rose Depp](https://film.one/person/lily-rose-depp.md), Sjón
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 75 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Eggers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20826736, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3211470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138781

## Coming up

- *Werwulf* (2026-12-25), Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/werwulf.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Lighthouse*](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md) (82)
- **Disney+:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu.md) (75)

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

## Fi1m on Robert Eggers

> Robert Eggers builds period horror from exacting research and demanding performances. We rate him most when his actors can be funny, frightened or unreasonable without having to deliver another solemn declaration.

In *The Lighthouse* (2019), Willem Dafoe turns a quarrel between two keepers into an occasion for grand speechmaking. We laughed at the pleasure he takes in making a small dispute sound momentous. Eggers understands how ridiculous authority can become when there are only two men present and neither can get away. The elaborate period language gives Dafoe something to play, and the bullying stays unpleasant even when it is funny.

His feature debut, *The Witch* (2015), established his habit of building horror from the language, beliefs and objects of an earlier time. He followed it with the isolation of *The Lighthouse*, then the larger-scale Viking revenge of *The Northman* (2022). Through those changes, the research has remained central: these characters must take their own fears seriously before we can. That is a useful starting point for a horror director, though it also helps explain why his films can become so insistently grave.

His regular cinematographer, Jarin Blaschke, shapes the lighting carefully and uses period-appropriate lenses. The candlelight and fog of *Nosferatu* (2024) show how much Eggers depends on what we can barely see. Bill Skarsgård’s count stays in shadow for a long stretch, and the castle scenes are properly frightening. The talk of covenants and terms makes him less frightening.

Eggers makes Ellen the centre of *Nosferatu*, and Lily-Rose Depp justifies the choice. Her back arches, her jaw locks, and her voice seems to belong to someone else. She also makes Ellen’s wanting as important as her terror, giving the character something to play beyond helplessness. Yet the formal English and the slow declarations weigh down the second hour, and the familiar story does not need so much explanation.

We would not ask Eggers to abandon the research or make his people sound like us. The better lesson is already in *The Lighthouse*, where Dafoe and Robert Pattinson keep the confinement compelling despite the repeated quarrels. Start there, provided a long evening with two difficult men sounds tolerable.

## Biography

Robert Eggers is an American filmmaker. He was born on 7 July 1983 in New York City. He began his career directing and designing experimental and classical theatre in New York before working as a production designer for film, television and theatre. He directed several short films, including *Brothers* (2015).

Eggers made his feature debut as writer and director with *The Witch* (2015). He subsequently wrote and directed *The Lighthouse* (2019) and *Nosferatu* (2024), and co-wrote and directed *The Northman* (2022).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Nosferatu* (2024), Fi1m 75, Director, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu.md)
- *The Lighthouse* (2019), Fi1m 82, Writer, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *Werwulf* (2026), Writer, Director, Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/werwulf.md)
- *Nosferatu* (2024), Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu.md)
- *Art of Darkness: Making the Lighthouse* (2023), Actor
- *The Northman* (2022), Producer, Director, Writer
- *The Lighthouse* (2019), Writer, Producer, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lighthouse.md)
- *The Witch* (2016), Director, Writer
- *Curtain* (2015), Production Design
- *Brothers* (2015), Director, Writer
- *Spirit Cabinet* (2013), Production Design
- *The Five Stages of Grief* (2011), Production Design, Costume Designer
- *Month to Month* (2011), Costume Design
- *YellowBrickRoad* (2010), Costume Design
- *The Tell-Tale Heart* (2009), Director, Costume Design, Screenplay, Production Design
- *Heartbreak Haiku* (2009), Costume Designer
- *Hansel and Gretel* (2007), Screenplay, Costume Design, Director, Production Design, Editor
- *Labyrinth 2*, Director, Writer
- *A Christmas Carol*, Director, Producer, Screenplay

## Gallery

- !["The Witch," Sundance 2015](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-d81b246590a9.jpg) "The Witch," Sundance 2015 — PunkToad, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Robert_Eggers%2C_Ralph_Ineson%2C_Kate_Dickie%2C_Anya_Taylor-Joy_and_Harvey_Scrimshaw.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Q&A- The Witch,Fantastic Fest 2015-1667.jpg](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-cb4922059fb4.jpg) Q&A- The Witch,Fantastic Fest 2015-1667.jpg — anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Robert_Eggers_-_The_Witch%2CFantastic_Fest_2015-1667_%2828894993650%29.jpg/1280px-Robert_Eggers_-_The_Witch%2CFantastic_Fest_2015-1667_%2828894993650%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-3b9db1eb3385.jpg) Robert Eggers — Anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Robert_Eggers_-_The_Witch%2CFantastic_Fest_2015-1667_%2828894993650%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Robert Eggers Winner of the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic for "The Witch," Sundance 2015, Awards Ceremony](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-5d01d9117028.jpg) Robert Eggers Winner of the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic for "The Witch," Sundance 2015, Awards Ceremony — https://www.flickr.com/photos/punktoad/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Robert_Eggers_at_Sundance_2015%2C_Awards_Ceremony.jpg/1280px-Robert_Eggers_at_Sundance_2015%2C_Awards_Ceremony.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-5dc86f57f49e.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-53c6ded642e9.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-1fbdcecc4f3f.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-09b7bf2a6477.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-a4d507f8ceea.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB
- ![Robert Eggers](https://film.one/media/person/8770/gallery-80d7a19011ce.jpg) Robert Eggers — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sutherland Trophy 2015: Sutherland Trophy (won), for *The Witch*

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

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