Daniel Christopher Gilroy is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing
Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. His other screenwriting credits include
Freejack (1992),
Two for the Money (2005),
The Fall (2006),
Real Steel (2011), and
The Bourne Legacy (2012)โthe last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year.