Daniel Scheinert

Daniel Scheinert is an American film director and writer who works as one half of the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, together with his college friend Daniel Kwan. Born on June 7, 1987, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, he studied film at Emerson College in Boston, where he met Kwan, and graduated in 2009. The pair began by directing music videos, including Houdini for Foster the People and Turn Down for What for DJ Snake and Lil Jon, both of which earned Grammy Award nominations. They moved into feature films with Swiss Army Man in 2016, which won the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and then made Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2022, which won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Scheinert also directed The Death of Dick Long on his own in 2019 and has television directing credits, including On Becoming a God in Central Florida.