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Brett Ratner

Directing

Born March 28, 1969 · Miami Beach, Florida, USA

Also known as 布莱特·拉特纳

Biography

Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and producer. He directed the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, Tower Heist, and Hercules. He is a producer of several films, including the Horrible Bosses series, as well as executive producer on other projects, including the films The Revenant and War Dogs and the television series Prison Break. Ratner got his start directing with music videos in the 1990s and directed his first motion picture, Money Talks, in 1997. Overall, the films Ratner has directed have earned over $2 billion at the global box office. Ratner is the co-founder of RatPac Entertainment, a film production company. Ratner led RatPac's partnership with Dune Entertainment in September 2013 for a co-producing deal with Warner Bros. that included 75 films. RatPac Entertainment has co-financed 81 theatrically released motion pictures, exceeding $17 billion in worldwide box office receipts. RatPac's co-financed films have been nominated for 59 Academy Awards, 25 Golden Globes, and 43 BAFTAs and have won 25 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globes, and 24 BAFTAs. In January 2017, Ratner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture industry, located at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2017, numerous women in Hollywood came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, sexual assault, or harassment against Ratner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brett Ratner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography50+ titles

Scarface

1983as Boy Lying on Raft in Pool (uncredited)

Prison Break

2005Director, Executive Producer

Before the Flood

2016Producer

Night Will Fall

2014Producer

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

2017Executive Producer

The Revenant

2015Executive Producer

Prison Break: The Final Break

2009Executive Producer

Entourage

2004as Brett Ratner

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014Producer

Rush Hour

1998Director

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

2009as Self

Running Scared

2006Producer

Red Dragon

2002Director

War Dogs

2016Executive Producer

By Sidney Lumet

2015Executive Producer

Jersey Boys

2014Executive Producer

The Water Diviner

2014Executive Producer

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

2010as Self

Catfish

2010Executive Producer

Paid in Full

2002Producer

Rush Hour 2

2001Director

The Family Man

2000Director

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

2014Producer

21

2008Executive Producer

Horrible Bosses

2011Producer

The Lego Ninjago Movie

2017Executive Producer

Black Mass

2015Executive Producer

Truth

2015Producer

Mother's Day

2010Producer

Rush Hour 3

2007Director

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

2011as Self

X-Men: The Last Stand

2006Director

I Saw the Light

2015Producer

Horrible Bosses 2

2014Producer

Seduced and Abandoned

2013as Self

After the Sunset

2004Director

Tower Heist

2011Director

I'm Still Here

2010Thanks

New York, I Love You

2008Director

Money Talks

1997Director

Georgetown

2019Producer

Breakthrough

2015Director

Mirror Mirror

2012Producer

Hercules

2014Director, Producer

The Grand

2007as "Sob Story" Barry Blaustein

Rules Don't Apply

2016Producer

Barely Lethal

2015Producer

Double Take

2001Producer

Santa's Slay

2005Producer

End Game

2006Executive Producer