# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/derek-cianfrance
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:39.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/derek-cianfrance"
name: "Derek Cianfrance"
slug: "derek-cianfrance"
description: "Derek M. Cianfrance is an American film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for writing and directing the films Blue Valentine (2010), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), The Light Between Oceans (2017) and Roofman (2025) as well as the HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True (2020). For his contributions to the story of Sound of Metal (2020), he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with its director Darius Marder and Abraham Marder."
tagline: "American film director and screenwriter (born 1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Derek_Cianfrance.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1974-01-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.589088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "cianfrance"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161834/"
    handle:    "nm0161834"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump