J.J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams born June 27 1966 is an American filmmaker and composer He is best known for his works in the genres of action drama and science fiction Abrams wrote and produced films such as Regarding Henry 1991 Forever Young 1992 Armageddon 1998 Cloverfield 2008 Star Trek 2009 Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 and Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker 2019 Abrams films have grossed over 4 billion worldwide making him the tenthhighestgrossing film director of all time Abrams has created numerous television series including Felicity cocreator 19982002 Aliascreator 20012006 Lost cocreator 20042010 and Fringe cocreator 20082013 He won two Emmy Awards for Lost  Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series His directorial film work includes Mission Impossible III 2006 Star Trek 2009 Super 82011 and Star Trek Into Darkness 2013 He also directed coproduced and cowrote The Force Awakens the seventh episode of the Star Wars Skywalker Saga and the first film of the sequel trilogy The film is his highestgrossing the fifthhighestgrossing film of all time not adjusted for inflation as well as the most expensive film ever made He returned to Star Wars by executive producing The Last Jedi 2017 and directing and cowriting The Rise of Skywalker 2019 Abrams frequent collaborators include producer Bryan Burk producerdirectors Damon Lindelof and Tommy Gormley actors Greg Grunberg Simon Pegg Amanda Foreman and Keri Russell composer Michael Giacchino writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci cinematographers Daniel Mindel and Larry Fong and editors Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Description above from the Wikipedia article JJ Abrams licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia