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Rian Johnson

Rian Johnson is an American filmmaker (b.

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Caviar
Production company · US, UK, BE, FR · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
Academy Award nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay — Glass Onion
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2023 · award
Academy Award nomination, Best Original Screenplay — Knives Out
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2020 · award
Empire Award for Best Director — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Empire Awards · 2018 · award
Selected clients
Pokémon GoSamsung

Bio & background

Rian Johnson is an American filmmaker (b. 1973) whose documented commercial credits include Samsung’s “The Curve Changes Everything” and the 2020 “Look Closer” spot for Pokémon Go Fest, covered by The Hollywood Reporter. Caviar represents him for branded content in Los Angeles and across its European offices. He emerged with Brick (2005), which won the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision, then directed The Brothers Bloom (2008) and Looper (2012). He wrote and directed Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), earning an Empire Award for Best Director and a Saturn Award for Best Writing, and returned to original mysteries with Knives Out (2019)—Academy Award-nominated for Best Original Screenplay—and Glass Onion (2022, Academy Award-nominated Best Adapted Screenplay). On television he directed Breaking Bad’s “Fifty-One,” winning a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series, and “Ozymandias,” and created Peacock’s Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne. He was named to Time’s 100 most influential people in 2023. His commercial reel remains thin relative to this feature and TV body of work.

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Awards
  • Academy Award nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay — Glass Onion
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2023
  • Academy Award nomination, Best Original Screenplay — Knives Out
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · 2020
  • Empire Award for Best Director — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
    Empire Awards · 2018
Saturn Award for Best Writing — Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Saturn Awards · 2018
  • Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series — Breaking Bad “Fifty-One”
    Directors Guild of America · 2013
  • Sundance Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision — Brick
    Sundance Film Festival · 2005
  • Press
    • Time 100 Most Influential People
      Time · 2023
    • Rian Johnson Directs Commercial for Virtual Pokémon Go Fest
      The Hollywood Reporter · 2020
    • Caviar roster bio — Rian Johnson (branded content)
      Caviar