Adam McKay

Adam McKay born April 17 1968 is an American film and television director producer screenwriter and comedian McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for two seasons and is the cofounder of the Upright Citizens Brigade He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and cowrote his comedy films Anchorman Talladega Nights and The Other Guys Ferrell and McKay later cowrote and coproduced numerous television series and films and produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions Venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s McKays The Big Short was the first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast For this film he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay with cowriter Charles Randolph and two British Academy Film Awards Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay He and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards the BAFTA Film Awards and the WGA Awards For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay In 2019 McKay founded Hyperobject Industries