Joseph Kosinski

Directing

Joseph Kosinski

Born 1974-05-03 · Marshalltown, Iowa, USA

Joseph Kosinski (born May 3, 1974) is an American film director. He directed the films Tron: Legacy (2010), Oblivion (2013), Only the Brave (2017), Top Gun: Maverick (2022), Spiderhead (2022), and F1 (2025). His previous work in computer graphics and computer-generated imagery (CGI) primarily involved CGI-related television commercials, including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3 and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Top Gun: Maverick poster
8.2

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

F1 poster
7.8

Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at glory.

F1

2025

F1 poster
7.8

Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at glory.

F1

2025

Oblivion poster
6.7

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

Oblivion

2013

Oblivion poster
6.7

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

Oblivion

2013

TRON: Legacy poster
6.5

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.

TRON: Legacy

2010

Only the Brave poster
7.5

Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

Only the Brave

2017

Spiderhead poster
5.8

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

Spiderhead

2022

No artwork available
NR

Explores the glamour and corruption of mid-'80s Miami inspired by the pilot episode of Miami Vice. Plot TBA.

Miami Vice '85

2028

No artwork available
NR

Explores the glamour and corruption of mid-'80s Miami inspired by the pilot episode of Miami Vice. Plot TBA.

Miami Vice '85

2028

No artwork available
NR

A large-scale conspiracy thriller about two men working in national security who uncover a secret program to recover and reverse-engineer crashed UAPs.

Untitled UAP Conspiracy Thriller

No artwork available
NR

A large-scale conspiracy thriller about two men working in national security who uncover a secret program to recover and reverse-engineer crashed UAPs.

Untitled UAP Conspiracy Thriller

The Dig poster
6.7

A man helps a woman bury a dead body.

The Dig

2017

The Dig poster
6.7

A man helps a woman bury a dead body.

The Dig

2017