FILM DIRECTOR

James Gray

1969 - Today

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James Gray (born April 14, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. Since his feature debut Little Odessa in 1994, he has made seven other features including We Own the Night (2007), Two Lovers (2008), The Immigrant (2013), The Lost City of Z (2016), Ad Astra (2019), and Armageddon Time (2022). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Gray has received more than 37,013 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). James Gray is the 1,391st most popular film director (down from 1,208th in 2019), the 9,522nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,244th in 2019) and the 367th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of James Grays by language

Over the past year James Gray has had the most page views in the with 55,327 views, followed by Italian (17,652), and German (10,376). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (160.50%), Finnish (101.51%), and Luxembourgish (57.91%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, James Gray ranks 1,391 out of 2,041. Before him are Lev Arnshtam, Gavin Hood, Edward Lachman, Lev Kulidzhanov, Flora Gomes, and Hugh Wilson. After him are François Dupeyron, Ken Burns, Michael Hoffman, Pierre Morel, Pál Gábor, and Terry Zwigoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, James Gray ranks 343. Before him are Nelson Vivas, Wang Dan, David Cage, Sergei Fedorov, Teresa Salgueiro, and Gale Harold. After him are Christian Laettner, Krunoslav Jurčić, Graham Coxon, Kristy Swanson, Ben Harper, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

Others Born in 1969

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Gray ranks 9,522 out of 20,380. Before him are Gale Harold (1969), Ken Maynard (1895), Steve Smith (1954), Deborah Raffin (1953), Bizarre (1976), and J. Michael Straczynski (1954). After him are Saweetie (1993), Hubert Stevens (1890), Connie Sellecca (1955), Jon Seda (1970), Grove Karl Gilbert (1843), and Don Frye (1965).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, James Gray ranks 367. Before him are Dave Filoni (1974), Rich Moore (1963), Alfred E. Green (1889), James Young (1872), Edward Lachman (1948), and Hugh Wilson (1943). After him are Ken Burns (1953), Michael Hoffman (1956), Terry Zwigoff (1949), Paul Bartel (1938), Alan Rudolph (1943), and Haskell Wexler (1922).

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Filmography

We Own the Night
Director
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Oct 12o 20076.695 / 10
Ad Astra
Director
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.
Sep 17o 20196.1 / 10
The Lost City of Z
Director
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Mar 15o 20176.389 / 10