Dan Gilroy

Dan Gilroy is one of those writers-turned-directors who only needed one film to make a serious statement, and that film is Nightcrawler. I genuinely think it's one of the sharpest American movies of the 2010s — a pitch-black satire of hustle culture and media predation wrapped up in this deeply unsettling character study, and Jake Gyllenhaal's performance wouldn't be half as terrifying without the precision of Gilroy's script driving every beat. The fact that it earned him an Oscar nomination for Original Screenplay and a win at the Independent Spirit Awards feels almost understated. A Dartmouth grad who clearly absorbed something darker than what the diploma suggests, Gilroy has a knack for finding the rot beneath respectable surfaces, and I'd honestly watch anything he writes.

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Name (English)

Dan Gilroy

Name (Japanese)

ダン・ギルロイ

Reading

だん・ぎるろい

Born

June 24, 1959 (age 67)

Origin

Santa Monica, California, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / film director / director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

High school

Washingtonville High School

University

Dartmouth College

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Gilroy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1159073

Tags

• California
• screenwriter
• film director
• director

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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