Biography
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for two seasons and is the co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade. He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, and produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions.
Venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s, McKay's The Big Short was the first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. For this film, he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries.
Filmography
all 100
Movies 76
Producer 69
TV Shows 24
Director 11
self 8
Writer 5
Screenplay 1
Creator 1
Daniel (2023)
BS High (2023)
Asog (2023)
Wild Summon (2023)
The Menu (2022)
God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty (2022)
The Invisible Pilot (2022)
Game Theory with Bomani Jones (2022)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)
Fresh (2022)
Don't Look Up (2021)
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
Q: Into the Storm (2021)
The Oxy Kingpins (2021)
Painting With John (2021)
537 Votes (2020)
For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close (2020)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip (2020)
Motherland: Fort Salem (2020)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)
Hustlers (2019)
Booksmart (2019)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" (2019)
Newscasters (2019)
Dead to Me (2019)
Hal (2019)
Vice (2018)
Holmes & Watson (2018)
Succession (2018)
Ibiza (2018)
LA to Vegas (2018)
No Activity (2017)
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
The House (2017)
Oh Lucy! (2017)
The History of Comedy (2017)
A.C. Green: Iron Virgin (2016)
The Boss (2016)
Grimsby (2016)
Daddy's Home (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Ant-Man (2015)
The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Get Hard (2015)
Bad Judge (2014)
The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas (2014)
Welcome to Me (2014)
Tammy (2014)
This Is Comedy (2014)
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
The Campaign (2012)
The Dictator (2012)
Casa de Mi Padre (2012)
Bachelorette (2012)
Fully Loaded (2011)
The Virginity Hit (2010)
Big Lake (2010)
The Other Guys (2010)
Presidential Reunion (2010)
Funny or Die Presents (2010)
Land of the Lost (2009)
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush (2009)
Eastbound & Down (2009)
Prop 8: The Musical (2008)
Step Brothers (2008)
Green Team (2007)
The Procedure (2007)
Good Cop, Baby Cop (2007)
The Landlord (2007)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Reel Comedy (2002)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Oscars (1953)
American Huckster
Women in Business
Plus One
First Ladies
Bad Blood
Breeders
The Freshening
Kings of America
King Dork
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2
Big Swiss
J6
Will
Toni Erdmann
Stormbound
Disorientation
Parasite
The Uninhabitable Earth
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1968-04-17 (56 years old)
Birth PlacePhiladelphia, United States of America
RelativesJeremy Piven
CitizenshipsMexico
Also Known As아담 맥케이, Адам МакКей
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
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