Sam Esmail

Sam Esmail

DirectorBorn Hoboken, New Jersey, USA2 analyzed titles

Average work score

5.5Mixed

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Sam Esmail (born September 17, 1977) is an American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter who runs Esmail Corp. He is best known as the creator, writer, and director of the award-winning USA Network television series Mr. Robot (2015–2019), starring Rami Malek. He wrote and directed the feature films Comet (2014) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He produced and directed the first season of the acclaimed Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller Homecoming (2018–2020), starring Julia Roberts and Janelle Monáe, and produced USA's Briarpatch (2020), Starz's Gaslit (2022), and Peacock's Angelyne (2022) and The Resort (2022).

Esmail's work often centres on alienation, technology, and American society.

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Career Woke Trend

Average scores of directed works by release year. Analyzed seasons appear in their respective years.

Woke score trend data
DateAverage score out of 10Titles analyzed
2015-07-0161
2016-07-0131
2017-07-0131
2019-07-0141
2023-07-0171

Filmography

Analyzed movies and shows directed by Sam Esmail. Season credits are shown separately.