--- name: "Rodney Rothman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rodney-rothman" fi1m_id: "rodney-rothman" imdb_id: "nm0745247" tmdb_id: 59918 wikidata_id: "Q7357051" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "1 January 1974" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_as: "producer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-23T23:51:15.739786+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." --- # Rodney Rothman ## Identity Rodney Rothman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rodney-rothman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rodney-rothman - **IMDb ID:** nm0745247 - **TMDB ID:** 59918 - **Wikidata ID:** Q7357051 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Rothman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7357051, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59918 Producer and director. Born 1 January 1974 in Los Angeles, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 1 January 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA - **Active:** 2018–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 producing - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 87 (1), 2020s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Rothman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7357051, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745247/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59918 ## Coming up - *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027-06-17), Producer ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md) (87) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Rodney Rothman > Rodney Rothman’s work on *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* gives a crowded superhero film warmth and a reason to care. We rate this collaborative directing debut highly, though its busiest action sometimes loses sight of the people. Miles Morales is allowed to be a beginner in *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), despite everything else demanding attention. Shameik Moore makes his uncertainty engaging, and Jake Johnson’s Peter B. Parker gives the lessons a welcome comic weight. We were moved by their scenes together because the film takes time to let a teacher and pupil grow fond of each other. Rodney Rothman and Phil Lord’s screenplay understands that the conversation has to be worth hearing before the next interruption arrives. Their quieter exchanges are among the film’s chief pleasures. Rothman came to feature directing after comedy writing on *Undeclared* (2001) and *22 Jump Street* (2014). That background makes sense of the ear for dialogue in *Into the Spider-Verse*. He shares the directing credit with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, and we should be careful about treating their work as his alone. The three let the animation styles compete without making Miles’s efforts difficult to understand. It is an assured debut. The visual choices deserve their share of attention: Ben-Day dots and panel-like framing carry the look of comics into the animation. They serve Rothman’s interest in recreating the experience of reading a comic, and give this familiar business of becoming a superhero fresh interest. His contribution to the screenplay also includes finding jokes in the repeated origin stories. This is funny, but every new introduction uses time that could have been spent with Miles. Our reservation is that the film sometimes seems impatient with the relationships it has worked to establish. The busiest action grows harder to take in, and the accumulation of alternative Spider-figures starts to crowd out the people we want to follow. That matters especially here, when the writing and performances have made learning from a mentor worth watching without any further spectacle. Start with *Into the Spider-Verse*, and be prepared to wish it would occasionally stop introducing people. ## Biography Rodney Rothman is an American filmmaker and writer. He co-wrote and co-directed the animated film *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018) with Bob Persichetti and Peter Ramsey, marking his feature directorial debut. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Annie Awards for directing and writing. Rothman wrote the screenplays for *Grudge Match* (2013) and *22 Jump Street* (2014). He has also produced films including *Forgetting Sarah Marshall* (2008), *Get Him to the Greek* (2010) and *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016). His television credits include writing for *Undeclared* (2001) and serving as a staff writer and head writer on *Late Show with David Letterman*, for which he received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Rothman is the author of the nonfiction book *Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement* (2005). His writing has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *GQ*, *The New York Times* and *McSweeney's Quarterly*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) - *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Fi1m 87, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md) ### Produced (1) — the average rests on these - *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Fi1m 82, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md) ## Complete filmography (22) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse* (2027), Producer - *Outcome* (2026), Thanks - *GOAT* (2026), Producer - *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md) - *Spider-Ham: Caught in a Ham* (2019), Thanks - *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Screenplay, Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md) - *Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping* (2016), Producer - *22 Jump Street* (2014), Screenplay - *Grudge Match* (2013), Screenplay - *The Five-Year Engagement* (2012), Producer - *Get Him to the Greek* (2010), Producer - *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Thanks — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md) - *Year One* (2009), Executive Producer - *Forgetting Sarah Marshall* (2008), Executive Producer - *Help Me Help You* (2006), series, Co-Executive Producer - *Committed* (2005), series, Writer - *Undeclared* (2001), series, Writer - *24 Jump Street*, Director, Producer, Writer - *The Something*, Director, Writer - *Stepdude*, Writer - *Burnt*, Screenplay - *The Traveler*, Producer ## Gallery - ![Rodney Rothman](https://film.one/media/person/102692/gallery-a3fbe9910d08.jpg) Rodney Rothman — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Rodney_Rothman_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Rodney_Rothman_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Rodney Rothman](https://film.one/media/person/102692/gallery-fd9a9cae03ef.jpg) Rodney Rothman — Image via TMDB - ![Rodney Rothman](https://film.one/media/person/102692/gallery-5ab4ace3e7cb.jpg) Rodney Rothman — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 1 won - 2019: Best Animated Feature (won), for *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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