The son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, Tony Gilroy penned scripts for several popular and successful films of the late 1990s and early 21st century, including the entire “Bourne” trilogy of action-espionage films. In 2007, he made the jump to directing with “Michael Clayton,” an effective character drama about a legal troubleshooter who undergoes a moral crisis. The picture earned him numerous award nominations, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and dual Oscar nods for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Born in Manhattan and raised in upstate New