R.J. Cutler

President

R.J. Cutler is an award-winning director and producer who has been making documentary film and television series for over thirty years.

Cutler’s work has been nominated for two Academy Awards and a Writer’s Guild Award, and he is the recipient of numerous other awards including three Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a GLAAD Award, two Cinema Eye Awards, and two Television Academy Honor Awards. In 2009, the Museum of Television and Radio held a four-day retrospective of R.J.’s work. In 2021, R.J. received the Critics’ Choice Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Documentary Film.

In 2020, Cutler launched This Machine, a production company focused on developing and producing premium documentary projects for film and television. This Machine is now a part of Sony Pictures Television Nonfiction.

R.J. Cutler lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jane Cha Cutler, their children Maddie, Max and Penny, and their dog, Dexter.

Feature Documentaries:

  • Marc by Sofia (producer), 2026

  • BTS: The Return (producer), 2026

  • Lee Soo Man: King of K-Pop (producer), 2025

  • Karol G: Tomorrow Was Beautiful (producer), 2025

  • Elton John: Never Too Late (director/producer), 2024

  • Martha (director/producer), 2024

  • The Disappearance of Shere Hite (producer), 2023

  • South to Black Power (producer), 2023

  • Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry (director/producer), 2021

  • BELUSHI (director/producer), 2020

  • Listen to Me Marlon (producer), 2015

  • The World According to Dick Cheney (director/producer), 2013

  • The September Issue (director/producer), 2009

  • Thin (producer), 2006

  • A Perfect Candidate (director/producer), 1996

  • The War Room (producer), 1993

Nonfiction Television:

  • Esports World Cup: Level Up (director/EP), 2025

  • Fight for Glory: The 2024 World Series (director/EP), 2025

  • Big Vape (director/EP), 2023

  • Murf the Surf (director/EP), 2023

  • Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium (EP) 2022

  • Supreme Models (EP), 2022

  • Dear… (EP), 2020-2022

  • 30 Days (EP), 2005-2008

  • Freshman Diaries (director/EP), 2003

  • American High (director/EP), 2000

Scripted Projects:

  • The Oval Office Tapes (creator, writer, director/EP), 2018

  • If I Stay (director), 2014

  • Nashville (director/EP), 2012-2018