USA

Ryan Fleck, born September 20, 1976, is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known for directing and writing the 2006 film Half Nelson and the 2008 film Sugar. He is also famous for his collaborations with fellow filmmaker Anna Boden. Fleck was born in Berkeley, California and raised in Berkeley and Oakland, California. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied film. At this time he met Anna Boden on the set of a student film and, after he finished his thesis short film Struggle, they began dating and decided to collaborate. Together they made the short documentaries Have You Seen This Man? and Young Rebels before they wrote and he directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson. The short won a prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The film was well received by critics and got nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Ryan Gosling. In April 2017, Boden and Fleck were hired to direct the Marvel Studios film Captain Marvel. The film was released in March 2019 and became a box office success. They also directed the first two episodes and produced the television show Mrs. America. Biography Source

Filmography

Struggle (2002)
Have You Seen This Man? (2003)
Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004)
Young Rebels (2005)
Half Nelson (2006)
Sugar (2008)
In Treatment (2009)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
The Big C (2011)
Mississippi Grind (2015)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Mrs. America (2020)