James Allen Mangold is an American filmmaker. He made his debut as a film director with
Heavy (1995), and is best known for the films
Cop Land (1997),
Girl, Interrupted (1999),
Identity (2003),
Walk the Line (2005),
3:10 to Yuma (2007), and two Wolverine films in the
X-Men films with
The Wolverine (2013) and
Logan (2017), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the sports drama film
Ford v Ferrari (2019), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and directed and co-wrote
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), the fifth installment in the
Indiana Jones series.