James Gray

Born 1969 · American filmmaker

James Marshall Gray is an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. Since his feature debut Little Odessa in 1994, he has made eight other features including We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City of Z (2016), Ad Astra (2019), Armageddon Time (2022), and Paper Tiger (2026). Six of his films have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

James Gray, in order

1. 1994 Little Odessa: directed, wrote · critics 60%, audiences 69% · streaming on Starz, Tubi
2. 2000 The Yards: directed, wrote · critics 65%, audiences 51% · streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+, Roku Channel
3. 2004 Manners of Dying: shot · directed by Jeremy Peter Allen
4. 2007 We Own the Night: directed, wrote · critics 57%, audiences 61% · streaming on Fandango at Home (free), Tubi
5. 2008 Two Lovers: directed, wrote, produced · critics 82%, audiences 59% · streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla
6. 2010 The Red Carpet Issue: acted · directed by Olivier Nicklaus
7. 2013 Blood Ties: wrote · directed by Guillaume Canet · critics 54%, audiences 39% · streaming on Hoopla, Starz
8. 2013 The Immigrant: directed, wrote, produced · critics 84%, audiences 60% · streaming on Kanopy, Fandango at Home (free), Fawesome
9. 2015 Hitchcock/Truffaut: acted · directed by Kent Jones · critics 96%, audiences 77% · streaming on Kanopy, Fawesome, Tubi
10. 2016 The Lost City of Z: directed, wrote · critics 85%, audiences 58% · streaming on Prime Video, Prime Video (free), MX Player
11. 2019 Ad Astra: directed, wrote · critics 83%, audiences 40% · streaming on Netflix, fuboTV
12. 2022 Armageddon Time: directed, wrote, produced · critics 76%, audiences 48% · streaming on Netflix
13. 2023 Room 999: acted · directed by Lubna Playoust · streaming on Criterion Channel
14. 2026 Paper Tiger: directed, wrote · critics 86%