My Take
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.
Overview
Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Dan Gilroy
- Name (Japanese)
- ダン・ギルロイ
- Reading
- だん・ぎるろい
- Born
- June 24, 1959 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Boar
- Origin
- Santa Monica, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / film director / director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Washingtonville High School
- University
- Dartmouth College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.