Dan Gilroy: podcast appearances and interviews

Daniel Christopher Gilroy is an American screenwriter and film director born on June 24, 1959. He is notably recognized for writing and directing the film Nightcrawler, released in 2014, which earned him the Best Screenplay award at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. Gilroy's other screenwriting credits encompass a range of films including Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). The latter was written in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. Gilroy has frequently collaborated with his wife, Rene Russo, whom he met in 1992 and married that same year. In addition to his work in film, he contributed to the television series Andor, for which he wrote six episodes across two seasons from 2022 to 2025. His work on the second season of the series earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.