Joseph Kosinski

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Joseph Kosinski (born May 3, 1974)[1] is an American film director. He directed the films Tron: Legacy (2010), Oblivion (2013), Only the Brave (2017), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and F1 (2025), as well as the made-for-TV film Spiderhead (2022). His previous work in computer graphics and computer-generated imagery (CGI) was primarily with CGI-related television commercials including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3[2] and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War.[3]

Life and career

Kosinski grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa, the son of Patricia (née Provost) of French-Canadian (Québec) descent, and Joel Kosinski, a doctor of Polish descent.[4][5][6][7] After graduating from Marshalltown High School in 1992, he studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University and architecture at Columbia University.[8]

His first major film was the special effects-heavy Tron: Legacy.[9][10] The film was in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3D, with a release of December 2010 and grossed $400 million worldwide.[11]

After moving to Los Angeles in 2005, he began writing a film treatment which would eventually develop into an unpublished graphic novel by the title Oblivion for Radical Comics.[12] In August 2010, Walt Disney Pictures acquired the rights to the work.[13] William Monahan worked on the screenplay for a film adaptation.[9] In March 2011, it was reported that Karl Gajdusek would rewrite the screenplay.[14] Attempts to keep the film with a PG rating were unsuccessful, leading to Disney giving up the rights which were acquired by Universal Pictures, and agreed to a PG-13 rating. The $120-million-budgeted Oblivion began filming in March 2012, with Tom Cruise in the lead role, and was released in April 2013 to mixed reviews and grossed $286 million worldwide.[15]

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Producer Christopher McQuarrie, admiral Kenneth R. Whitesell, Tom Cruise, Kosinski, and Jerry Bruckheimer at the Naval Air Station North Island premiere of Top Gun: Maverick

In 2017, he directed Only the Brave, originally titled Granite Mountain, based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots (wildland firefighters). In June 2017, it was announced he was set to direct the sequel to Top Gun, titled Top Gun: Maverick, reuniting with Oblivion star Tom Cruise.[16] The film was released in theatres on May 27, 2022, by Paramount Pictures and grossed $1.496 billion worldwide, becoming Cruise's highest-grossing film at the box office.[17][18][19]

Kosinski also directed a Formula One racing film named F1, reteaming with Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer and screenwriter Ehren Kruger, with racing driver Lewis Hamilton also serving as producer. The project, acquired by Apple Studios in June 2022, stars Brad Pitt and will receive an exclusive theatrical run "of at least 30 days" starting internationally on June 25, 2025, and in North America on June 27, 2025, before streaming on Apple TV+.[20][21]

On February 18, 2025, it was announced that Kosinski and Bruckheimer would reunite on an untitled conspiracy thriller film centred around UFOs, with Zach Baylin writing the screenplay.[22] On March 24, it was announced that the project had been acquired by Apple Studios.[23]

In April 2025, it was announced that Kosinski would direct a Miami Vice film with a script by Dan Gilroy. This film would be developed after his upcoming UFO conspiracy thriller. It will be a reboot of the Miami Vice franchise following the original television series and 2006 film.[24]

Unrealized projects

Kosinski has been attached to several as-of-now-unmade projects, including remakes of '70s science-fiction films Logan's Run[25] and The Black Hole,[26] the science-fiction film Archangels,[27] an untitled action-thriller from Halt and Catch Fire writers Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers,[28] and The Twilight Zone.[29]

Kosinski was confirmed to direct the third Tron film in March 2015, but in May of the same year it was announced that Disney had canceled the project.[30][31]

Kosinski also signed on to direct a film adaptation of the Gran Turismo video game series for Sony Pictures in March 2015, but in February 2018, it was reported the project was no longer moving forward.[32][33] The project would eventually be directed by Neill Blomkamp and released in theatres on August 25, 2023.[34][35]

In June 2020, he was hired to direct the reboot of Twister for Universal Pictures, the original film's international distributor,[36] but in October 2022, Kosinski stepped down after the project was repurposed into a legacy-sequel, Twisters, and replaced by Lee Isaac Chung as director; Kosinski was ultimately credited for the film's story.[37][38][39]

Academia

Kosinski is an alumnus of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and was an adjunct assistant professor of architecture[40] helping students in 3D modeling and graphics.[41] In 2008, he spoke in detail about his education in architecture, pushing the technological envelope in commercials and his eventual progression to feature films.[42]

Awards

Filmography

Feature film

Year Title Director Producer Writer Notes
2010 Tron: Legacy Yes No No
2013 Oblivion Yes Yes No Based on his graphic novel
2017 Only the Brave Yes No No
2022 Top Gun: Maverick Yes No No
Spiderhead Yes No No
2024 Twisters No No Story
2025 F1 Yes Yes Story

Short film

Year Title Director Writer Notes
2008 TR2N Yes No Teaser for Tron: Legacy
2017 The Dig Yes Yes Made to demonstrate Sony's CineAlta Venice camera

Music video

Commercials

References

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