James Wan

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1977 age 0

   Born

2. 2003 age 26

   CreditSawdirector

   CreditSawscreenwriter

3. 2005 age 28

   CreditSaw IIproducer

4. 2006 age 29

   CreditSaw IIIproducer

   CreditSaw IIIscreenwriter

5. 2007 age 30

   CreditDead Silencedirector

   CreditSaw IVproducer

6. 2008 age 31

   CreditSaw Vproducer

7. 2009 age 32

   CreditSaw VIproducer

8. 2010 age 33

   CreditInsidiousdirector

   CreditInsidiousfilm editor

   CreditSaw 3Dproducer

9. 2013 age 36

   CreditInsidious: Chapter 2director

   CreditThe Conjuringdirector

10. 2014 age 37

    CreditAnnabelleproducer

11. 2015 age 38

    CreditFurious 7director

    CreditInsidious: Chapter 3

    CreditInsidious: Chapter 3producer

12. 2016 age 39

    CreditLights Outproducer

    CreditThe Conjuring 2director

    CreditThe Conjuring 2screenwriter

13. 2017 age 40

    CreditAnnabelle: Creationproducer

    CreditJigsawproducer

    CreditLogan Luckyscreenwriter

14. 2018 age 41

    CreditAquamandirector

    CreditInsidious: The Last Keyproducer

    CreditThe Nunproducer

    CreditThe Nunscreenwriter

15. 2019 age 42

    CreditAnnabelle Comes Homeproducer

    CreditThe Curse of La Lloronaproducer

16. 2021 age 44

    CreditMortal Kombatproducer

    CreditThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itproducer

17. 2022 age 45

    CreditM3GANproducer

18. 2023 age 46

    CreditAquaman and the Lost Kingdomdirector

    CreditThe Nun IIproducer

19. 2025 age 48

    CreditM3GAN 2.0producer

    CreditThe Conjuring: Last Ritesproducer

20. 2026 age 49

    CreditBackroomsproducer

    CreditMortal Kombat IIproducer

• LWLeigh Whannell13 titles
• PWPatrick Wilson12 titles
• JBJoseph Bishara11 titles
• CCCharlie Clouser9 titles
• PSPeter Safran9 titles
• TBTobin Bell8 titles
• OKOren Koules8 titles
• KGKevin Greutert8 titles
• KMKirk M. Morri8 titles
• SSShawnee Smith7 titles

• Spouse

  • IBIngrid Bisu

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• I love coming in with a battle plan, but I also love the freedom to make things up with my actors, and my DP, too. Sometimes we’ll be in a scene and I see new things we can do, so I will throw whatever stuff that has been cooking away in my brain for a long time because I think what I'm coming up with on the set might serve the film better. You know, your instinct will tell you, “This is a better way, try this other way instead,” and that's very important for me, and that is my style of filmmaking, for better or for worse. That's how I like to approach it. And a lot of it comes to me when I'm designing the script, the screenplay. I'm generally very involved in the screenplay, even the ones I'm not on officially as a writer, I'm still extremely involved in how I craft the screen with the writers. I like to get in there and I really craft the world so I can have an idea of how all that will play out before I go on set. Then when I go on set, I like to keep it free, so that I can improvis

  James Wan, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I think for me anyway, the most successful horror movies that work are the ones that can create characters who you care about and that have characteristics that resonate with you and I think that is highly important, because if you can create characters that are likeable and people you can relate to, to me it makes the scares that much more scarier.

  James Wan, CC BY-SA 4.0