Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer, and cinematographer. He is best known for writing and directing the 2009 film Sin Nombre (for which he won the Directing Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival), directing the 2011 film Jane Eyre, and for directing and executive producing the 2014 HBO series True Detective (for which he won the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series). Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, the son of a third generation Japanese-American father born in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, who worked for a generator company and later for the University of California, Berkeley; and a Swedish mother, who worked as a dental hygienist and later as a history teacher. His parents divorced and remarried, his father to an Argentine woman, and his mother to a Mexican-American. Fukunaga said that his uncles and aunts are all elementary school teachers or scientists. Fukunaga said that his f...