Destin Daniel Cretton (born November 23, 1978 in Haiku, Hawaii) is an American film director of Japanese, Irish and Slovak descent.
Cretton is best known for indie films Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle, as well as Just Mercy and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. He was also the producer and writer of The Shack.
Filmography
- I Am Not a Hipster (2012)
- Short Term 12 (2013)
- The Glass Castle (2017)
- The Shack (2017, as producer)
- Just Mercy (2019)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
- Avengers: The Kang Dynasty (2025)
- Untitled Shang-Chi sequel (TBA)
- Untitled Marvel Series (TBA)
- American Born Chinese (2023)
- Minors (TBA)
- Naruto film adaptation (TBA)
Tropes
- Production Posse: Cretton has collaborated with composer Joel P. West in all of his films, with Brie Larson in every one since 2013, and with writer Andrew Lanham in every one since 2017. I Am Not a Hipster star Domnic Bogart also makes sporadic appearances in Cretton's subsequent movies.