Gregg Araki
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Gregg Araki

Born 17 December 1959 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His Teenage Apocalypse film trilogy, consisting of Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997), has been heralded as a cult classic. His film Kaboom (2010) was the inaugural winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. On January 23, 2026, his erotic comedy thriller film I Want Your Sex starring Olivia Wilde premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregg Araki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Riverdale
13 Reasons Why
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Mysterious Skin
White Bird in a Blizzard
Kaboom
Smiley Face
The Doom Generation
Nowhere
American Crime
Totally F***ed Up
Red Oaks
I Want Your Sex
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
White Bird in a Blizzard
Kaboom
Smiley Face
Mysterious Skin
Splendor
Nowhere
The Doom Generation
Totally F***ed Up
The Living End
the long weekend (o' despair)
Three Bewildered People in the Night
Gregg Araki · Midrow