21st-century American screenwriters

American film director, screenwriter, television producer and television writer (1941-2024)

American writer and filmmaker (born 1977)

American film director, screenwriter and film editor

American comedian and actor

American actress

American actress and comedian

American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer, and humorist

American cartoonist and animator (born 1971)

American screenwriter

American actor

American writer

American filmmaker (born 1975)

American film director, screenwriter, producer

Philip Anderson Lord and Christopher Robert Miller are an American filmmaking and acting duo. Their films are known for subversion of genre and detailed visual sensation, spanning various styles of live-action and animation. They are known for co-creating the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie, and the Spider-Verse film franchises.

American writer

American actor

American film director (born 1941)

American author and screenwriter.

American actor

Bowen Yang is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer. Yang was a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live in 2018, and a cast member for seven seasons from 2019 until his departure in 2025. He became the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021, the same year he was promoted to repertory status.

American director and musician

American video game designer

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, known professionally as Christopher Guest, is an American and British actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Guest has written, directed, and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mockumentary style. He co-wrote and acted in the rock satire This Is Spinal Tap (1984), and later directed a string of satirical mockumentary films such as Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016). He also acted in the films Death Wish (1974), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), and A Few Good Men (1992); and was a regular cast member on the 10th season of Saturday Night Live.

American actress, comedian and writer (born 1982)

American playwright and screenwriter (born 1961)

American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist and actor

American actor, writer, producer and director

American film producer, director, and screenwriter (1936–2019)

American film director (born 1959)

poet, talk show host, writer, teacher (1926-2020)

American screenwriter

American actor and film director (1939-2007)

American film director

American comedian and actress

British actor

American comic book writer

Hungarian American film director, screenwriter, actor

American television writer (born 1966)

American screenwriter and director (born 1964)

American film director and screenwriter

American film director

American actress

American animation director

Jeffrey Lance Baena was an American screenwriter and film director. His most successful films were 2004's I Heart Huckabees and 2020's Horse Girl, though his projects to receive the most contemporaneous critical acclaim were the 2016 and 2017 films Joshy and The Little Hours. Baena frequently worked with his wife, Aubrey Plaza, and writing partner Alison Brie.

American film director and screenwriter

American actor

American writer and comic creator

American television producer, writer and attorney

American television writer and producer (born 1961)

American actor

American-born Canadian director and screenwriter

American writer

American actor and screenwriter

American author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)

American film director

British-American composer and singer-songwriter and playwright

American comedian

American novelist and screenwriter

American television writer, director, and producer

American actor and filmmaker (born 1974)