Craig Brewer

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1971-12-06 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

Richmond, Virginia, USA

Craig Brewer

Biography

Craig Houston Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Craig Brewer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2011

Footloose

as Kegger Dancer

Production

2005

Hustle & Flow

as Director

2006

Black Snake Moan

as Director

2006

Black Snake Moan

as Screenplay

2011

Footloose

as Director

2011

Footloose

as Screenplay

2012

Katy Perry: Part of Me

as Executive Producer

2000

2002

Pressure

as Screenplay

2016

-

American Pride

as Producer

-

American Pride

as Director

2005

Hustle & Flow

as Writer

2015

The Invaders

as Executive Producer

2019

2021

Coming 2 America

as Director

2003

Water's Edge

as Screenplay

2000

The Poor & Hungry

as Director of Photography

2000

2000

2000

The Poor & Hungry

as Screenplay

2025

Song Sung Blue

as Director

2025

2025

Song Sung Blue

as Producer

2020

Yellow River

as Additional Writing

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