Scott Derrickson

Q: Has Scott Derrickson won any awards?

Scott Derrickson has received several nominations throughout his career, including the Saturn Award for Best Director for 'Sinister.' While he has not won an Oscar, his films have garnered significant recognition in the horror genre.

Q: What was Scott Derrickson's first film?

Scott Derrickson's first feature film was 'Hellraiser: Inferno,' released in 2000. This film marked the beginning of his career in directing and showcased his interest in horror.

Q: What is Scott Derrickson's estimated net worth?

Scott Derrickson's estimated net worth is around $10 million. His wealth primarily comes from his successful career as a director and screenwriter in the film industry.

Q: What is Scott Derrickson's directing style?

Scott Derrickson's directing style often emphasizes psychological horror, character-driven narratives, and atmospheric tension. He tends to incorporate supernatural elements while exploring deeper human fears and emotions.

Q: What other genres has Scott Derrickson worked in?

While primarily known for horror films, Scott Derrickson has also ventured into the superhero genre, most notably with 'Doctor Strange,' which blends elements of fantasy and action with his signature storytelling style.

Q: What themes are prevalent in Scott Derrickson's films?

Scott Derrickson's films often explore themes of fear, morality, and the supernatural. He frequently examines the psychological impact of trauma and how it shapes characters' lives.

Q: What is Scott Derrickson's upcoming project?

Scott Derrickson is set to direct 'The Black Phone 2,' scheduled for release in 2025. This sequel follows the success of the original film and continues to explore the horror elements introduced in the first installment.

Known for

Doctor Strange (2016)

IMDb 7.5 / 10

2016 / Action, Adventure / 110mins

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing...

Sinister (2012)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2012 / Horror, Mystery / 110 min

Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire...

Name

Scott Derrickson

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

16 July 1973, Los Angeles, California, USA

Spouses

Catherine Derrickson (2000–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Eugene Derrickson, Barbara Derrickson

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2022	Movie Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone Take a behind-the-scenes look into the most pivotal elements of THE BLACK PHONE production, including adapting the story and achieving...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	TV Eli Roth's History of Horror An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie Doctor Strange: The Score-Cerer Supreme A discussion of Michael Giacchino's work on the film and the themes the music conveys and supports for the film.	Himself	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2017	Movie Doctor Strange: The Fabric of Reality A detailed examination of the film's costumes: construction, functionality, and staying true to the characters. It also covers set design...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Hellraiser: Evolutions Exclusive to Arrow Video Amazon Channels, Hellraiser: Evolutions is a documentary looking at the evolution of the hit horror franchise,...	Himself	TMDB 6.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Black Phone 2 Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2025	Movie Black Phone 2 Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2025	Movie Black Phone 2 Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2025	Movie The Gorge Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge....	Director Directing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2025	Movie The Gorge Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge....	Producer Production	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2023	Movie V/H/S/85 Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	Movie V/H/S/85 Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five chilling tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a gore-filled journey...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2022	Movie The Black Phone Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie The Black Phone Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie The Black Phone Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	Movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2021	Movie Shadowprowler A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2021	Movie Shadowprowler A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2021	Movie Shadowprowler A teenage boy tries to hide from a sinister figure prowling around the house.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2021	Movie No Man of God The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2020	TV Snowpiercer More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2020	Movie My Valentine A pop singer's artistic identity is stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé. Locked together late...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2016	Movie Doctor Strange After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	Movie Doctor Strange After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Sinister 2 A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	Movie Sinister 2 A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.	Characters Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	Movie Sinister 2 A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.	Producer Production	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	Movie Kristy When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	Movie Deliver Us from Evil When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	Movie Deliver Us from Evil When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	Movie Misunderstood Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie Devil's Knot The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie Devil's Knot The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Sinister True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie Sinister True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie Sinister True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2008	Movie The Day the Earth Stood Still A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2006	Movie The Visitation In Antioch, the former Father Travis Jordan lost his faith on God three years ago when his beloved wife was...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2005	Movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2005	Movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2004	Movie Land of Plenty After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vagabond with psychic...	Story Writing	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	Movie Hellraiser: Inferno A detective solves the puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead. As those around him begin to meet tragic...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	Movie Hellraiser: Inferno A detective solves the puzzle box that releases the diabolical demon, Pinhead. As those around him begin to meet tragic...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	Movie Urban Legends: Final Cut The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1995	Movie Love in the Ruins A Christian allegory in which an experienced demon and his apprentice sow despair, alienation, fear and hopelessness among the customers...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Love in the Ruins A Christian allegory in which an experienced demon and his apprentice sow despair, alienation, fear and hopelessness among the customers...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Love in the Ruins A Christian allegory in which an experienced demon and his apprentice sow despair, alienation, fear and hopelessness among the customers...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Love in the Ruins A Christian allegory in which an experienced demon and his apprentice sow despair, alienation, fear and hopelessness among the customers...	Editor Editing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1995	Movie Love in the Ruins A Christian allegory in which an experienced demon and his apprentice sow despair, alienation, fear and hopelessness among the customers...	Sound Editor Sound	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1990	Movie Out of Black and White The college experience is not always as perfect as some school brochures may lead you to think. For some, making...	Writer Writing	Not rated
1990	Movie Out of Black and White The college experience is not always as perfect as some school brochures may lead you to think. For some, making...	Musician Sound	Not rated
1990	Movie Out of Black and White The college experience is not always as perfect as some school brochures may lead you to think. For some, making...	Director Directing	Not rated
1990	Movie Out of Black and White The college experience is not always as perfect as some school brochures may lead you to think. For some, making...	Editor Editing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Bitter Bitter On the fringe of an isolated logging town, a grieving teen is drawn to an ancient creature that opens a...	Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie Room 428	Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Night of the Hunter Harry Powell, a serial killer posing as a preacher, marries a widow solely to gain access to her deceased husband’s...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Night of the Hunter Harry Powell, a serial killer posing as a preacher, marries a widow solely to gain access to her deceased husband’s...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Retrograde Follows a top military soldier who discovers that a brilliant scientist, who is her former lover, is dangerously meddling with...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie Black Phone 3 Third installment in the Black Phone series.	Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie Bermuda Plot details are being kept under wraps, except for the fact that it will be set in the mysterious patch...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Bermuda Plot details are being kept under wraps, except for the fact that it will be set in the mysterious patch...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie Road of Bones An American film crew travels to Siberia to cover an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a 2000 km...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Road of Bones An American film crew travels to Siberia to cover an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a 2000 km...	Producer Production	Not rated
TBA	Movie Road of Bones An American film crew travels to Siberia to cover an elusive ghost story about the Kolyma Highway, a 2000 km...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Ghost Eaters A group of friends who discover a drug called Ghost, which allows them to see the dead. But Ghost has...	Producer Production	Not rated

Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone

2022 / TMDB 6.3

Hellraiser: Evolutions

2015 / TMDB 6.0

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Got a question about Scott Derrickson?

What are some of Scott Derrickson's most successful films?

Scott Derrickson is best known for films like 'Sinister,' 'Doctor Strange,' and 'The Black Phone.' These movies have received both critical acclaim and commercial success, establishing him as a notable director in the horror and superhero genres.

Has Scott Derrickson won any awards?

What was Scott Derrickson's first film?

What is Scott Derrickson's estimated net worth?

What is Scott Derrickson's directing style?

What other genres has Scott Derrickson worked in?

What themes are prevalent in Scott Derrickson's films?

What is Scott Derrickson's upcoming project?

Known for

Doctor Strange (2016)

Sinister (2012)

Personal details

Credits

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Answering the Call: Behind the Scenes of The Black Phone

Hellraiser: Evolutions

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