Destin Daniel Cretton trivia: 36 facts about the director

Destin Daniel Cretton is an American film director. He is bound to helm an MCU film with 2021 film Shang-Chi.

So let’s dive into some unknown trivia and facts about his life and career.

1. Destin Daniel Cretton was born on November 23, 1978
2. He is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor
3. He is best known for his collaborations with Brie Larson
4. They collaborated in the films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just Mercy (2019)
5. Cretton was born in 1978 in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui
6. He is the son of Janice Harue Cretton, a Japanese American hairdresser, and Daniel Cretton, of Irish and Slovak ancestry
7. They worked for the fire department
8. He was home-schooled by his Christian mother
9. He lived in Haiku in a two-bedroom house with his five siblings
10. He lived there including until he was 19 years old
11. He moved to San Diego, California to attend Point Loma Nazarene University
12. There he majored in communications
13. After graduating, Cretton worked for two years as a staff person at a group home for at-risk teenagers
14. He made short films as a hobby, which developed as a vocational path
15. He attended and graduated from film school at San Diego State University
16. While at San Diego State University, Cretton made a 22-minute short film, Short Term 12
17. The short film was based on his experiences at the facility for teenagers
18. The short film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
19. There it won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking
20. After graduating from film school, Cretton decided to adapt the short into a feature-length screenplay
21. It won one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2010
22. That screenplay served as the basis for what would become the feature film of the same name, also directed by Cretton
23. It was released in 2013.
24. The film premiered on March 10, 2013 at South by Southwest
25. There it won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards for a Narrative Feature
26. It was widely acclaimed as one of the best films of 2013
27. It was listed on many film critics’ annual top ten lists
28. The film earned several accolades, including three Independent Spirit Award nominations
29. In March 2019, Cretton was hired by Marvel Studios to direct a film based on Shang-Chi
30. Both the film and Cretton’s involvement were confirmed during the San Diego Comic-Con 2019
31. With the film being titled Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
32. The film, which is Marvel’s first superhero movie tentpole franchise with an Asian protagonist
33. In the film will star Simu Liu as the title character
34. With Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Awkwafina set to co-star
35. In January 5, 2020, Cretton said that he signed up to the project because he wanted “to give [his] son a superhero to look up to”
36. The film will be released on February 12, 2021