Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director writer and cinematographer He is known for writing and directing the 2009 film Sin Nombre the 2011 film Jane Eyre and for directing and executive producing the first season of the HBO series True Detective for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series He has received acclaim for the 2015 war drama Beasts of No Nation in which Fukunaga was writer director producer and cinematographer Fukunaga lives in New York City Fukunaga has lived in France Japan and Mexico City He is fluent in French and Spanish He counts screenwriter Naomi Foner as a mentor He has received several grants including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship the John H Johnson Film Award  Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary