David Gordon Green is an American filmmaker. He has directed dramas such as George Washington, All the Real Girls, and Snow Angels, as well as the thriller Undertow, all of which he wrote or co-wrote. In 2008, he transitioned into comedy, directing the films Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter, as well as episodes of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down. In 2013, he returned to his more dramatic roots with the independent films Prince Avalanche and Joe. Since then, he has directed the films Manglehorn, Our Brand Is Crisis, Stronger, and episodes of the television comedy-drama Red Oaks, on which he also serves as executive producer. He directed the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth installments in the Halloween franchise, which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Danny McBride.

Filmography

• 2026Deepfaking Sam Altman — Executive Producer
• 2026Idiots — Executive Producer
• Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed — Executive Producer, Director
• Scarpetta — Executive Producer, Director
• The Hawk — Executive Producer, Director
• 2025Burt — Executive Producer
• 2025The Man Who Saves the World? — Executive Producer
• 2025The Voyage Out — Executive Producer
• 2024*smiles and kisses you* — Executive Producer
• 2024Good One — Thanks
• 2024Hippo — Executive Producer
• 2024Nutcrackers — Director, Executive Producer
• 2023Metal Monsters: The Righteous Redeemer — Executive Producer
• Telemarketers — Executive Producer
• 2023The Exorcist: Believer — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Screenstory
• 2022Bones and All — Brad
• 2022Halloween Ends — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2022Mississippi River Styx — Executive Producer
• 2022The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent — Director
• 2021Halloween Kills — Writer, Director, Executive Producer
• 2021The King of North Sudan — Executive Producer
• The Sex Lives of College Girls — Director
• 2020Fatman — Executive Producer
• Mythic Quest — Director, Executive Producer
• Dickinson — Executive Producer, Director
• The Righteous Gemstones — Executive Producer, Director
• 2018An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn — Executive Producer
• 2018Arizona — Executive Producer
• 2018City of Joel — Executive Producer
• 2018Halloween — Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
• 2018Support the Girls — Thanks
• 2018The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter — Executive Producer
• 2017Dayveon — Executive Producer
• 2017Flower — Executive Producer
• 2017Stronger — Director
• Tarantula — Executive Producer
• There's... Johnny! — Executive Producer, Director
• 2016Fraud — Executive Producer
• 2016Goat — Screenplay
• Vice Principals — Executive Producer, Director
• 2015Booger Red — Executive Producer
• 2015Hot Sugar's Cold World — Executive Producer
• 2015Manglehorn — Director, Producer
• 2015Our Brand Is Crisis — Director
• 2014Joe — Director, Producer
• 2014Land Ho! — Executive Producer
• 2014Person to Person — Executive Producer
• Red Oaks — Executive Producer, Director
• 2014Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow — Producer
• 2013Prince Avalanche — Producer, Director, Writer
• 2012Compliance — Executive Producer
• 2012Nature Calls — Executive Producer
• 2012See Girl Run — Executive Producer
• 2012The Comedy — Executive Producer
• 2011Black Jack — Director
• Black Jack — Director, Executive Producer
• Good Vibes — Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
• 2011The Catechism Cataclysm — Producer
• 2011The Sitter — Director
• 2011Your Highness — Director
• Eastbound & Down — Director
• 2008Pineapple Express — Director
• 2007Great World of Sound — Producer
• 2007Shotgun Stories — Producer
• 2007Snow Angels — Screenplay, Director
• 2004Undertow — Director, Screenplay
• 2003All the Real Girls — Director, Writer, Story
• 2000George Washington — Producer, Director, Writer
• 1998Physical Pinball — Director, Screenplay
• 1997Pleasant Grove — Director, Screenplay
• Cornucopia — Producer
• Suburban Psycho — Executive Producer
• Supermax — Director
• The Happiest Place on Earth — Director
• The Prima Donna — Executive Producer
• Wildfire — Producer

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2022Halloween in Hollywood — Self
• The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween Hoedown — Himself
• The Debra Hill Story — Self