Brett Ratner
Born: 1969-03-28 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Melania ... (Director)
2021
- Jackie Chan: Building an Icon as Self (archive footage)
2020
- Pollywood as Self
2019
- Georgetown ... (Producer)
2017
- The Lego Ninjago Movie ... (Executive Producer)
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self
- Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds ... (Executive Producer)
2016
- War Dogs ... (Executive Producer)
- Rush Hour ... (Executive Producer)
- Before the Flood ... (Producer)
- Dark Crimes ... (Producer)
- Rules Don't Apply ... (Producer)
- I Saw the Light ... (Producer)
- S Is for Stanley ... (Producer)
2015
- The Revenant ... (Executive Producer)
- Black Mass ... (Executive Producer)
- Truth ... (Producer)
- Barely Lethal ... (Producer)
- Breakthrough ... (Director)
- The Audition ... (Producer)
- Scorsese's GoodFellas ... (Producer)
- Chuck Norris vs Communism ... (Producer)
- By Sidney Lumet ... (Executive Producer)
- American Express Unstaged: Dead & Company ... (Director)
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- Hercules ... (Director)
- Horrible Bosses 2 ... (Producer)
- The Water Diviner ... (Executive Producer)
- Jersey Boys ... (Executive Producer)
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films ... (Producer)
- Night Will Fall ... (Producer)
- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film ... (Producer)
- Mysteries of the Jules Rimet Trophy ... (Director)
2013
- Movie 43 ... (Director)
- Seduced and Abandoned as Self
2012
- Mirror Mirror ... (Producer)
- Eddie Murphy: One Night Only as Self
- In The Tracks of Lalo Schifrin as Self
2011
- Horrible Bosses ... (Producer)
- Tower Heist ... (Director)
- CHAOS ... (Director)
- Woody Allen: A Documentary ... (Executive Producer)
- POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold as Self
2010
- Skyline ... (Executive Producer)
- Mother's Day ... (Producer)
- I'm Still Here ... (Thanks)
- Catfish ... (Executive Producer)
- With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self
2009
- Prison Break: The Final Break ... (Executive Producer)
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- How Bruce Lee Changed the World as Self
2008
- 21 ... (Executive Producer)
- New York, I Love You ... (Director)
- Blue Blood ... (Director)
2007
- Rush Hour 3 ... (Director)
- Women's Murder Club ... (Producer)
- On the Lot
- Code Name: The Cleaner ... (Producer)
- The Grand as "Sob Story" Barry Blaustein
- Making Rush Hour 3 as Self
2006
- Running Scared ... (Producer)
- End Game ... (Executive Producer)
- X-Men: The Last Stand ... (Director)
- The N Word as Self
- Class Act as Self
- Brett Ratner's X-Diaries as Himself
2005
- Prison Break ... (Director)
- Santa's Slay ... (Producer)
2004
- Entourage as Brett Ratner
- After the Sunset ... (Director)
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
2002
- Paid in Full ... (Producer)
- Red Dragon ... (Director)
2001
- Rush Hour 2 ... (Director)
- Double Take ... (Producer)
- Lady Luck! ... (Director)
2000
- The Family Man ... (Director)
1999
- Making the Video ... (Director)
- Jackie Chan: My Stunts ... (Thanks)
- Black and White as Brett Ratner
- A Piece of the Action: Behind the Scenes of Rush Hour as Self
- Evil Luke Lee ... (Director)
1998
- Rush Hour ... (Director)
1997
- Money Talks ... (Director)
1996
1994
- Meet Mickey Rourke ... (Director)
1990
- Whatever Happened to Mason Reese ... (Director)
1983
- Scarface as Boy Lying on Raft in Pool (uncredited)