Bryan Singer

Bryan Jay Singer born September 17 1965 is an American director producer and writer He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced almost all of the films he has directed as well as multiple television series After graduating from the University of Southern California Singer directed his first short film Lions Den 1988 On the basis of that film he received financing for his next film Public Access 1993 which was a cowinner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival In the mid1990s Singer received critical acclaim for directing the neonoir crime thriller The Usual Suspects 1995 He followed this with another thriller Apt Pupil 1998 an adaptation of a Stephen King novella about a boys fascination with a Nazi war criminal In the 2000s he became known for big budget superhero films such as XMen 2000 for which Singer won the 2000 Saturn Award for Best Director its sequel X2 2003 and Superman Returns 2006 He then directed the World War II historical thriller Valkyrie 2008 cowrotecoproduced XMen First Class 2011 and directed the fantasy adventure film Jack the Giant Slayer 2013 as well as two more XMen films XMen Days of Future Past 2014 and XMen Apocalypse 2016 Singer also directed the Queen biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody 2018 although he was fired during the last weeks of filming Lawsuits containing allegations of sexual assault were filed against Singer in 1997 2014 and 2017 In 2019 The Atlantic published a report containing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct which led to him losing several jobs in the entertainment industry Description above from the Wikipedia article Bryan Singer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia