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Adam McKay

04/17/1968 (56 years old) | Philadelphia, USA | Producer | Male

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 co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade. He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced 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, McKay's 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 co-writer 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.

Adam McKay Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	Succession	25,253
2.	Step Brothers	848
3.	The Big Short	549
4.	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby	384
5.	The Other Guys	372
6.	Vice	198
7.	Grimsby	130
8.	The Menu	120
9.	Daddy's Home	80
10.	Dead to Me	48
11.	Booksmart	28
12.	Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy	23
13.	Land of the Lost	11
14.	Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues	7
15.	Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar	3
16.	Eastbound & Down	0

Succession

The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

8.8/10

95%

159,759

Step Brothers

Movie | United States | 07/25/2008 | Comedy | Odd Couple

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

6.9/10

55%

2,033

The Big Short

Movie | United States | 12/12/2015 | Drama | Business

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

7.8/10

89%

8,685

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Movie | United States | 08/04/2006 | Comedy | Cars

Lifelong friends and national idols Ricky Bobby and Cal Naughton Jr. have earned their NASCAR stripes with their uncanny knack of finishing races in the first and second slots, respectively, and slinging catchphrases like \Shake and bake!\ But when a rival French driver coasts onto the track to challenge their records, they'll have to floor it to retain their top-dog status.

6.6/10

71%

567

The Other Guys

Movie | United States | 08/06/2010 | Action | Buddies

NYPD detectives Christopher Danson (Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos, other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit detectives Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg). You've seen them in the background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes closed. They're not heroes, they're \the other guys.\ But every cop has his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch that could turn into NYC's biggest crime. It's the opportunity of their lives, but do these guys have the right stuff?

6.6/10

78%

1,926

Vice

Movie | United States | 12/25/2018 | Comedy | Politics

How bureaucratic Washington insider, Dick Cheney, quietly became the most powerful man in the world as vice president to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.

7.2/10

65%

1,377

Grimsby

Movie | United Kingdom | 02/24/2016 | Comedy | Spies

Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.

6.2/10

36%

834

The Menu

Movie | United States | 11/17/2022 | Drama | Food

A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

7.2/10

88%

35,581

Daddy's Home

Movie | United States | 12/25/2015 | Comedy | Family

The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.

6.2/10

30%

1,803

Dead to Me

A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.

7.9/10

88%

7,886

Booksmart

Movie | United States | 05/24/2019 | Comedy | Teens

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

7.1/10

96%

748

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Movie | United States | 07/09/2004 | Comedy | Journalists

It's the 1970's and San Diego super-sexist anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

7.1/10

66%

393

Land of the Lost

Movie | United States | 09/03/2009 | Science Fiction | Dinosaurs

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.

5.3/10

26%

347

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Movie | United States | 12/18/2013 | Comedy | Journalists

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

6.3/10

75%

265

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Movie | United States | 02/12/2021 | Comedy | Situation

The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.

6.4/10

1,748

Eastbound & Down

Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.

8.2/10

91%

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