Gregg Araki
Biography
Gregg Araki is an American filmmaker born on December 17, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. Araki created the Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, which consists of Totally F***ed Up, released in 1993, The Doom Generation, released in 1995, and Nowhere, released in 1997. This trilogy has been heralded as a cult classic. Additionally, his film Kaboom, released in 2010, was the inaugural winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Known for directing, Araki has 30 known credits in the film industry according to database records.
Career overview
Gregg Araki is an American filmmaker who was born on December 17, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. Within his directing career, he has accumulated thirty known credits listed on the Movie Database.
Araki is particularly well known for his Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, which consists of Totally F***ed Up, released in 1993, The Doom Generation, released in 1995, and Nowhere, released in 1997. This trilogy has been heralded as a cult classic. In addition to these works, his film Kaboom, released in 2010, achieved distinction as the inaugural winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.
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- I Want Your Sex (2026) Writer
- I Want Your Sex (2026) Director
- I Want Your Sex (2026) Producer
- I Want Your Sex (2026) Editor
- Everybody Wants to Be Gen X (2025) as Self
- DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) Director
- American Gigolo (2022) Director
- Now Apocalypse (2019) Writer
- Now Apocalypse (2019) Executive Producer
- Now Apocalypse (2019) Director
- Now Apocalypse (2019) Creator
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019) Director
- Heathers (2018) Director
- Riverdale (2017) Director
- 13 Reasons Why (2017) Director
- Greenleaf (2016) Director
- American Crime (2015) Director
- Red Oaks (2014) Director
- White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Screenplay
- White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Director
- White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Producer
- White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) Editor
- Kaboom (2010) Screenplay
- Kaboom (2010) Director
- Kaboom (2010) Editor
- Kaboom (2010) Producer
- Protect You + Me (2008) Thanks
- Indie Sex (2007) as Self
- Smiley Face (2007) Director
- Smiley Face (2007) Editor
- Smiley Face (2007) Producer
- Mysterious Skin (2005) Director
- Mysterious Skin (2005) Screenplay
- Mysterious Skin (2005) Producer
- Mysterious Skin (2005) Editor
- Rescued from the Closet (2001) as Self
- But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) Thanks
- This Is How the World Ends (2000) Director
- This Is How the World Ends (2000) Writer
- This Is How the World Ends (2000) Producer
- This Is How the World Ends (2000) Editor
- This Is How the World Ends (2000) Creator
- Splendor (1999) Supervising Film Editor
- Splendor (1999) Director
- Splendor (1999) Writer
- Splendor (1999) Producer
- Splendor (1999) Editor
- Nowhere (1997) as Cockroach (voice)
- Nowhere (1997) Editor
- Nowhere (1997) Director
- Nowhere (1997) Producer
- Nowhere (1997) Writer
- The Doom Generation (1995)
- The Doom Generation (1995) Director
- The Doom Generation (1995) Writer
- The Doom Generation (1995) Editor
- The Doom Generation (1995) Producer
- At Sundance (1995) as Self
- Totally F***ed Up (1994) Director
- Totally F***ed Up (1994) Director of Photography
- Totally F***ed Up (1994) Writer
- Totally F***ed Up (1994) Editor
- Totally F***ed Up (1994) Producer
- The Living End (1992) Director
- The Living End (1992) Writer
- The Living End (1992) Director of Photography
- The Living End (1992) Editor
- The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (1989) Producer
- The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (1989) Director
- The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (1989) Editor
- The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (1989) Writer
- Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) Writer
- Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) Director
- Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) Director of Photography
- Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) Producer
- Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987) Editor
- Designing the End of the World: The Teen Apocalypse Trilogy as Self