George A. Aguilar

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George Augustus Aguilar is an American stuntman, second unit director and actor most known for his collaborators with directors Martin Scorsese and Donald Petrie.

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Life and career

Aguilar started his career in stunts with 1989's Adventures in Babysitting before eventually starting his second unit directing career with the 2006 Ivan Reitman film My Super Ex-Girlfriend .

Aguilar is a frequent collaborator of Martin Scorsese, first working with him on 1999's Bringing Out the Dead and then 2002's Gangs of New York before serving as stunt coordinator and second unit director on his 2006 film The Departed . [1] He and Scorsese later worked together on Shutter Island , Silence , The Irishman , and Killers of the Flower Moon . [2] [3]

In 2011, he served as second unit director for Brett Ratner on Tower Heist . [4] In 2012 and 2014, he directed second unit on Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's Jump Street duology. [5]

Other films Aguilar has directed second unit on include Now You See Me , Ghostbusters , The Smurfs , The Smurfs 2 , Deliver Us From Evil , Motherless Brooklyn , Zombieland , School for Scoundrels , Enchanted , Goosebumps , Noah , and All the King's Men . [6]

Filmography

YearTitle Stunts Second unit director Director
1987 Adventures in Babysitting YesNo Chris Columbus
Big Shots YesNo Robert Mandel
1988 She's Having a Baby YesNo John Hughes
1990 Robocop 2 YesNo Irvin Kershner
Marked for Death YesNo Dwight H. Little
1991 Out For Justice YesNo John Flynn
The Hard Way YesNo John Badham
1992 Under Siege YesNo Andrew Davis
Hoffa YesNo Danny Devito
1993 Robocop 3 YesNo Fred Dekker
1995 Batman Forever YesNo Joel Schumacher
Major Payne YesNo Nick Castle
12 Monkeys YesNo Terry Gilliam
1996 Joe's Apartment YesNoJohn Payson and Chris Wedge
1997 Donnie Brasco YesNo Mike Newell
1999 Bringing Out the Dead YesNo Martin Scorsese
Big Daddy YesNo Dennis Dugan
2000 Meet the Parents YesNo Jay Roach
2002 Gangs of New York YesNoMartin Scorsese
2003 Daredevil YesNo Mark Steven Johnson
Elf YesNo Jon Favreau
2004 Taxi YesNo Tim Story
New York Minute YesNo Dennie Gordon
2005 War of the Worlds YesNo Steven Spielberg
Two for the Money YesNo DJ Caruso
The Producers YesNo Susan Stroman
2006 The Pink Panther YesNo Shawn Levy
Freedomland YesNo Joe Roth
16 Blocks YesNo Richard Donner
The Sentinel YesNo Clark Johnson
Fanaa YesYes Kunal Kohli
The Devil Wears Prada YesNo David Frankel
My Super Ex-Girlfriend YesYes Ivan Reitman
All the King's Men YesYes Steven Zaillian
The Departed YesYesMartin Scorsese
The Good Shepherd YesNo Robert De Niro
School for Scoundrels YesYes Todd Phillips
2007 The Darjeeling Limited YesNo Wes Anderson
The Bourne Ultimatum YesNo Paul Greengrass
American Gangster YesNo Ridley Scott
Enchanted YesYes Kevin Lima
Across the Universe YesNo Julie Taymor
2008 Che: Part 1 YesNo Steven Soderbergh
Che: Part 2 YesNo
Leatherheads YesNo George Clooney
Revolutionary Road YesNo Sam Mendes
Marley & Me YesNoDavid Frankel
2009 Tenderness YesNo John Polson
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past YesYes Mark Waters
Zombieland YesYes Ruben Fleischer
2010 Shutter Island YesNoMartin Scorsese
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time YesNoMike Newell
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps YesNo Oliver Stone
Get Him to the Greek YesNo Nicholas Stoller
The Other Guys YesNo Adam McKay
Love & Other Drugs YesNo Edward Zwick
2011 The Adjustment Bureau YesYes George Nolfi
Mr. Popper's Penguins YesYesMark Waters
The Smurfs YesYes Raja Gosnell
30 Minutes or Less YesYesRuben Fleischer
Footloose NoYes Craig Brewer
The Rum Diary YesNo Bruce Robinson
Tower Heist YesYes Brett Ratner
New Years Eve YesNo Garry Marshall
2012 21 Jump Street YesYes Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
Premium Rush NoYes David Koepp
The Campaign YesNoJay Roach
2013 Now You See Me YesYes Louis Leterrier
The Smurfs 2 YesYesRaja Gosnell
The Wolf of Wall Street YesNoMartin Scorsese
2014 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit YesNo Kenneth Branagh
Noah YesYes Darren Aronofsky
22 Jump Street YesYesPhil Lord and Christopher Miller
Deliver Us From Evil YesYes Scott Derrickson
This Is Where I Leave You YesYesShawn Levy
2015 Mortdecai YesYesDavid Koepp
True Story NoYes Rupert Goold
The Divergent Series: Insurgent NoYes Robert Schwentke
Goosebumps NoYes Rob Letterman
2016 Ghostbusters YesYes Paul Feig
Silence YesYesMartin Scorsese
2017 Going in Style YesYes Zach Braff
A Gentleman YesYes Raj & DK
The Upside YesYes Neil Burger
2018 Ocean's 8 YesNo Gary Ross
Tomb Raider NoYes Roar Uthaug
2019 Joker YesNoTodd Phillips
Motherless Brooklyn NoYes Edward Norton
The Irishman YesYesMartin Scorsese
2021 The Many Saints of Newark YesYes Alan Taylor
The Harder They Fall NoYes Jeymes Samuel
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon NoYesMartin Scorsese

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  3. "Building on the bedrock of KODAK 35mm film, DP Rodrigo Prieto AMC ASC's camera honors heritage and depicts deception for Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon'" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
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