R.J. Cutler

President

R.J. Cutler is an award-winning director and producer who has been making documentary film and television series for over thirty years.

Feature Documentaries:

• Elton John: Never Too Late (director/producer), 2024

• Martha (director/producer), 2024

• The Disappearance of Shere Hite (producer), 2023

• South to Black Power (producer), 2023

• Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (director/producer), 2021

• BELUSHI (director/producer), 2020

• Listen to Me Marlon (producer), 2015

• The World According to Dick Cheney (director/producer), 2013

• The September Issue (director/producer), 2009

• Thin (producer), 2006

• A Perfect Candidate (director/producer), 1996

• The War Room (producer), 1993

Nonfiction Television:

• Big Vape (director/EP), 2023

• Murf the Surf (director/EP), 2023

• Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium (EP) 2022

• Supreme Models (EP), 2022

• Dear… (EP), 2020-2022

• 30 Days (EP), 2005-2008

• Freshman Diaries (director/EP), 2003

• American High (director/EP), 2000

Scripted Film and Television:

• The Oval Office Tapes (creator, writer, director/EP), 2018

• If I Stay (director), 2014

• Nashville (director/EP), 2012-2018

Cutler’s work has been nominated for an Academy Award and he is the recipient of numerous other awards including three Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a GLAAD Award, two Cinema Eye Awards and two Television Academy Honor Awards. In 2009, the Museum of Television and Radio held a four-day retrospective of R.J.’s work. In 2021 R.J. was the recipient of the Critics’ Choice Awards Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Documentary Film.

In 2020, Cutler launched This Machine, a production company focused on developing and producing documentary projects for film and television. This Machine is now a part of Sony Non-Fiction Television.

R.J. Cutler lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jane Cha Cutler, their children Maddie, Max and Penny and their dog Dexter.