Biography
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for two seasons and is the co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade. He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, and produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions.
Venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s, McKay's The Big Short was the first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. For this film, he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries.
Movie Credits
Adam McKay has appeared in 14 movies.
Some of the most popular movies include:
TV Credits
Adam McKay has appeared in 5 TV Series.
These include
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
Saturday Night Live,
The History of Comedy,
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter and
The Oscars.
Production Credits
Adam McKay has 125 production credits.
Production
Credited for Executive Producer in 34 shows -
The Uninhabitable Earth,
Parasite,
Kings of America,
Big Swiss,
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,
Step Brothers,
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush,
Land of the Lost,
Fully Loaded,
The Dictator,
Bad Judge,
A Deadly Adoption,
The Spoils Before Dying,
Grimsby,
A.C. Green: Iron Virgin,
Oh Lucy!,
No Activity,
Succession,
Dead to Me,
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons",
Booksmart,
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times",
Motherland: Fort Salem,
Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip,
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,
537 Votes,
Painting With John,
The Oxy Kingpins,
Q: Into the Storm,
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
Game Theory with Bomani Jones,
The Invisible Pilot,
God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty and
BS High.
Credited for Producer in 42 shows -
Average Height, Average Build,
Bad Blood,
Toni Erdmann,
First Ladies,
Will,
Untitled eSports Project,
American Huckster,
J6,
Breeders,
Disorientation,
The Freshening,
Plus One,
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2,
The Landlord,
Prop 8: The Musical,
Eastbound & Down,
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,
Funny or Die Presents,
The Other Guys,
The Virginity Hit,
Bachelorette,
Casa De Mi Padre,
The Campaign,
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters,
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,
Tammy,
Welcome to Me,
Get Hard,
Sleeping with Other People,
Daddy's Home,
The Boss,
The House,
Daddy's Home 2,
LA to Vegas,
Ibiza,
Holmes & Watson,
Vice,
Hustlers,
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,
Don't Look Up,
Fresh and
The Menu.
Writing
Credited for Writer in 14 shows -
Average Height, Average Build,
Bad Blood,
The Uninhabitable Earth,
Saturday Night Live,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie,
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,
The Landlord,
Good Cop, Baby Cop,
The Procedure,
Green Team,
Presidential Reunion,
The Unbelievably Sweet Alpacas and
Vice.
Directing
Credited for Director in 20 shows -
Average Height, Average Build,
Bad Blood,
The Uninhabitable Earth,
Kings of America,
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie,
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,
The Landlord,
Good Cop, Baby Cop,
The Procedure,
Green Team,
Step Brothers,
Eastbound & Down,
The Other Guys,
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,
The Big Short,
Succession,
Vice,
Don't Look Up and
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Creator
