J.J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams born June 27 1966 is an American filmmaker He is best known for his work in the genres of action drama and science fiction Abrams wrote or produced such films as Regarding Henry 1991 Forever Young 1992 Armageddon 1998 Cloverfield 2008 Star Trek 2009 Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019 Abrams has created numerous television series including Felicity cocreator 19982002 Alias creator 20012006 Lost cocreator 20042010 and Fringe cocreator 20082013 He won two Emmy Awards for Lost Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series His directorial film work includes Mission Impossible III 2006 Star Trek 2009 Super 8 2011 and Star Trek Into Darkness 2013 He also directed produced and cowrote Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 the seventh episode of the Star Wars saga the first film of the sequel trilogy his highestgrossing film as well as the fourthhighestgrossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation He returned to Star Wars by cowriting producing and directing the ninth and final installment of the saga Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019 Abramss frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk actors Greg Grunberg Simon Pegg and Keri Russell composer Michael Giacchino writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Description above from the Wikipedia article JJ Abrams licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia