Daniel Christopher Gilroy born June 24 1959 is an American screenwriter and film director He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler 2014 for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards His other screenwriting credits include Freejack 1992 Two for the Money 2005 The Fall 2006 Real Steel 2011 and The Bourne Legacy 2012the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy His wife Rene Russo has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Gilroy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia