Adam McKay
Sign in to saveAmerican filmmaker (born 1968)
OverviewAI-generated
Adam McKay is a person whose professional career began in 1995. According to Open Library records, the author has two works, with "Talladega nights" listed as a top work. Crossref data indicates a total of five works associated with the name.
MusicBrainz classifies an artist named Adam Mckay as a female person from Scotland, associated with folk and scottish folk genres. This entry has 3,888 listeners and 12,832 plays on Last.fm. The subject was born in 1968, with a specific date of April 17, 1968, recorded in Wikidata.
The name Adam McKay is referenced by 1,201 other encyclopedia articles. Wikidata also notes that the subject has 1,048,408 social media followers.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Talladega nights
- Talladega nights
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Scotland
- Active from
- 1976
Discography
- Catriona McKay2002
- Starfish2007
- Foogy2009
- The Auld Harp2013
- Harponium2014
- Seavaigers2014
- Celtic Airs2016
- Bare Knuckle2017
- Love in Secret2020
- When Feathers Appear2021
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,888
- Total plays
- 12,832
Director and co-writer of Anchorman, Taledega Nights, and the short film The Landlord, available at http://www.funnyordie.com <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Adam+Mckay">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,277x
- The variant call format and VCFtools
· 2011 · cited 15,747x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1968-04-17 ) April 17, 1968 (age 58) , Denver , Colorado, U.S.
- Occupations
- Screenwriter director producer
- Years active
- 1986–present
- Organization
- Hyperobject Industries
- Spouse
- Shira Piven ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1999 )
- Relatives
- Jeremy Piven (brother-in-law)
- Awards
- Full list
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American filmmaker. McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). After leaving SNL, McKay collaborated with comedian Will Ferrell on his comedy films in the 2000s such as Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Step Brothers (2008), and The Other Guys (2010). Ferrell and McKay co-wrote and co-produced many television series and films, with McKay himself co-producing their website Funny or Die through their company, Gary Sanchez Productions.
Aside from working with Ferrell, McKay wrote and directed the satirical films The Big Short (2015), Vice (2018), and Don't Look Up (2021). He won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Critics' Choice Award for adapting the screenplay of The Big Short. In 2019, McKay founded the production company Hyperobject Industries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adam McKay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.