# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-brewer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:01:25.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-brewer"
name: "Craig Brewer"
slug: "craig-brewer"
description: "Craig Houston Brewer is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, \"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp\". He is also known for directing the 2011 remake of Footloose, the 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name and the 2021 film Coming 2 America, the latter two films starring Academy Award nominee Eddie Murphy."
tagline: "Film director, screenwriter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Julianne_Hough%2C_Craig_Brewer_%26_Kenny_Wormald_post-Footloose_Q%26A._Hits_theatres_Oct._14%21_%286098635634%29_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1971-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.91
  momentum:             13.92464483487027
  historical:           13.33612666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108132/"
    handle:    "nm0108132"
sources:
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    title: "کریگ بریور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كرايغ بروير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كرايج بروير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "کریگ برور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "クレイグ・ブリュワー"
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    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Brewer"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723252"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53267"
    title: "Craig Brewer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump