George A. Aguilar

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

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

Year	Title	Stunts	Second unit director	Director
1987	Adventures in Babysitting	Yes	No	Chris Columbus
	Big Shots	Yes	No	Robert Mandel
1988	She's Having a Baby	Yes	No	John Hughes
1990	Robocop 2	Yes	No	Irvin Kershner
	Marked for Death	Yes	No	Dwight H. Little
1991	Out For Justice	Yes	No	John Flynn
	The Hard Way	Yes	No	John Badham
1992	Under Siege	Yes	No	Andrew Davis
	Hoffa	Yes	No	Danny Devito
1993	Robocop 3	Yes	No	Fred Dekker
1995	Batman Forever	Yes	No	Joel Schumacher
	Major Payne	Yes	No	Nick Castle
	12 Monkeys	Yes	No	Terry Gilliam
1996	Joe's Apartment	Yes	No	John Payson and Chris Wedge
1997	Donnie Brasco	Yes	No	Mike Newell
1999	Bringing Out the Dead	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
	Big Daddy	Yes	No	Dennis Dugan
2000	Meet the Parents	Yes	No	Jay Roach
2002	Gangs of New York	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
2003	Daredevil	Yes	No	Mark Steven Johnson
	Elf	Yes	No	Jon Favreau
2004	Taxi	Yes	No	Tim Story
	New York Minute	Yes	No	Dennie Gordon
2005	War of the Worlds	Yes	No	Steven Spielberg
	Two for the Money	Yes	No	DJ Caruso
	The Producers	Yes	No	Susan Stroman
2006	The Pink Panther	Yes	No	Shawn Levy
	Freedomland	Yes	No	Joe Roth
	16 Blocks	Yes	No	Richard Donner
	The Sentinel	Yes	No	Clark Johnson
	Fanaa	Yes	Yes	Kunal Kohli
	The Devil Wears Prada	Yes	No	David Frankel
	My Super Ex-Girlfriend	Yes	Yes	Ivan Reitman
	All the King's Men	Yes	Yes	Steven Zaillian
	The Departed	Yes	Yes	Martin Scorsese
	The Good Shepherd	Yes	No	Robert De Niro
	School for Scoundrels	Yes	Yes	Todd Phillips
2007	The Darjeeling Limited	Yes	No	Wes Anderson
	The Bourne Ultimatum	Yes	No	Paul Greengrass
	American Gangster	Yes	No	Ridley Scott
	Enchanted	Yes	Yes	Kevin Lima
	Across the Universe	Yes	No	Julie Taymor
2008	Che: Part 1	Yes	No	Steven Soderbergh
	Che: Part 2	Yes	No
	Leatherheads	Yes	No	George Clooney
	Revolutionary Road	Yes	No	Sam Mendes
	Marley & Me	Yes	No	David Frankel
2009	Tenderness	Yes	No	John Polson
	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Yes	Yes	Mark Waters
	Zombieland	Yes	Yes	Ruben Fleischer
2010	Shutter Island	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Yes	No	Mike Newell
	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	Yes	No	Oliver Stone
	Get Him to the Greek	Yes	No	Nicholas Stoller
	The Other Guys	Yes	No	Adam McKay
	Love & Other Drugs	Yes	No	Edward Zwick
2011	The Adjustment Bureau	Yes	Yes	George Nolfi
	Mr. Popper's Penguins	Yes	Yes	Mark Waters
	The Smurfs	Yes	Yes	Raja Gosnell
	30 Minutes or Less	Yes	Yes	Ruben Fleischer
	Footloose	No	Yes	Craig Brewer
	The Rum Diary	Yes	No	Bruce Robinson
	Tower Heist	Yes	Yes	Brett Ratner
	New Years Eve	Yes	No	Garry Marshall
2012	21 Jump Street	Yes	Yes	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Premium Rush	No	Yes	David Koepp
	The Campaign	Yes	No	Jay Roach
2013	Now You See Me	Yes	Yes	Louis Leterrier
	The Smurfs 2	Yes	Yes	Raja Gosnell
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Yes	No	Martin Scorsese
2014	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	Yes	No	Kenneth Branagh
	Noah	Yes	Yes	Darren Aronofsky
	22 Jump Street	Yes	Yes	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Deliver Us From Evil	Yes	Yes	Scott Derrickson
	This Is Where I Leave You	Yes	Yes	Shawn Levy
2015	Mortdecai	Yes	Yes	David Koepp
	True Story	No	Yes	Rupert Goold
	The Divergent Series: Insurgent	No	Yes	Robert Schwentke
	Goosebumps	No	Yes	Rob Letterman
2016	Ghostbusters	Yes	Yes	Paul Feig
	Silence	Yes	Yes	Martin Scorsese
2017	Going in Style	Yes	Yes	Zach Braff
	A Gentleman	Yes	Yes	Raj & DK
	The Upside	Yes	Yes	Neil Burger
2018	Ocean's 8	Yes	No	Gary Ross
	Tomb Raider	No	Yes	Roar Uthaug
2019	Joker	Yes	No	Todd Phillips
	Motherless Brooklyn	No	Yes	Edward Norton
	The Irishman	Yes	Yes	Martin Scorsese
2021	The Many Saints of Newark	Yes	Yes	Alan Taylor
	The Harder They Fall	No	Yes	Jeymes Samuel
2023	Killers of the Flower Moon	No	Yes	Martin Scorsese

References

1. "The Departed - Variety" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
2. "Martin Scorsese and DP Rodrigo Prieto AMC ASC harness Kodak looks for 'The Irishman'" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
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.
4. "Tower Heist - Variety" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
5. "22 Jump Street - Dear Cast & Crew" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.
6. "G.A. Aguilar - Turner Classic Movies" . Retrieved 9 November 2024.