Forest Whitaker
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Winged Creatures (Fragments) (2008)
- Dir. Rowan Woods
Feat. Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce…
- A tired formula is tackled admirably by Australian dir. Rowan Woods in this high–strung melodrama, revolving around half–a–dozen…
- Dragon Hunters (2008)
- Dir. Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Vincent Lindon
- French–produced animated tale of two dragon hunters in a world that has become infested with a terrible plague, with famished, mutant creatures…
- Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
- Dir. Spike Jonze
Feat. Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini…
- Expanding on the simple text of Maurice Sendak's modern children's classic, this glorious, visionary adaptation from director Spike Jonze and writer…
- Repo Men (2010)
- Dir. Miguel Sapochnik
Feat. Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga…
- In a derivative future–world where artificial organs are readily sold and repossessed, this cocksure shoot em up pits a debt–riddled repo…
- Experiment, The (2010)
- Dir. Paul Scheuring
Feat. Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Clifton Collins Jr.
- Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker chew the scenery in this slick, if largely diminished remake of the 2001 German thriller, itself a dramatisation of…
- Lullaby (Lullaby for Pi) (2010)
- Dir. Benoît Philippon
Feat. Rupert Friend, Clemence Poesy, Forest Whitaker
- A jazz–playing, Some Like it Hot–idolizing drifter mourning the death of his soul mate strikes love with an idiosyncratic woman with a…
- Ernest & Celestine (Ernest and Celestine) (2012)
- Dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Lambert Wilson, Lauren Bacall…
- A bear and a mouse become firm friends in this lovely French animation.
- Out of the Furnace (2013)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson…
- Christian Bale plays a destitute ex–con whose resolve to cut ties with his past is tested when his brother falls in with a notorious group of…
- Last Stand, The (2013)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville…
- Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his first love – blowing shit up – in this explosive comeback vehicle for the former action star, in…
- Butler, The (2013)
- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey…
- A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
- Taken 3 (Tak3n) (2014)
- Dir. Olivier Megaton
Feat. Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace…
- Third addition to the Liam Neeson action franchise has our hero accused of a murder he never committed or witnessed. More scowling and punching…
- Southpaw (2015)
- Dir. Antoine Fuqua
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker…
- Jake Gyllenhaal gets in the ring in this downbeat boxing drama as a former champ struggling to get his life back on track after losing his wife in a…
- Roots (TV Mini-Series) (2016)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, Thomas Carter
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Derek Luke…
- A powerful new adaptation of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This tragic story of resilience is told in four parts covering four…
- Arrival (2016)
- Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Feat. Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker…
- Amy Adams plays a linguistics expert who is recruited by the military to determine the intentions of seemingly–benign alien visitors who have…
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- Dir. Gareth Edwards
Feat. Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk…
- The phenomenal mythology of Star Wars expands again with this first of the "standalone" films, a suitably epic adventure that inaugurates a fresh…
- Black Panther (2018)
- Dir. Ryan Coogler
Feat. Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o…
- Another massive hit, and considered one of the best of the eighteen films in the Marvel Comic Universe, and the first to feature a predominantly…
- Finding Steve McQueen (2019)
- Dir. Mark Steven Johnson
Feat. Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner…
- Lighthearted heist caper set in the 1970's, following the unlikely attempt by a group of small–time crims to steal $30 million from Nixon's…
- Respect (2021)
- Dir. Liesl Tommy
Feat. Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans…
- Musical biopic starring Jennifer Hudson as singer Aretha Franklin in the first two decades of her life, culminating with the recording of her…