Directing · Writing · age 58

Christopher McQuarrie

Best rated: Mission: Impossible - Fallout (7.7)

Films: 6
Avg rating: 7.23
Peak run: 2012’25
7+ run: 5 films

Films: 6
Avg rating: 7.23
Peak run: 2012’25
7+ run: 5 films

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The career

Christopher McQuarrie, directing career by IMDb rating5-film averagePeak eraLongest 7+ run

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20006 films2025

Current formLast 5: 7.36 vs career 7.23 (+0.13)

As a director, films with 1,000+ votes

Christopher by the numbers

Average

7.23

6 rated films

Vote weighted

7.25

bigger films count more

Median

7.3

half are better

Consistency

±0.41

rating spread

Career

26y

2000 to 2025

Total votes

1.89M

across every film

Best

7.7

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Worst

6.6

The Way of the Gun

Newest first

Filmography

Directing filmography

2025	Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning	7.1	242K
2023	Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One	7.6	334K
2018	Mission: Impossible - Fallout	7.7	426K
2015	Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation	7.4	451K
2012	Jack Reacher	7.0	396K
2000	The Way of the Gun	6.6	37,528

Better together?

Christopher McQuarrie's regulars

The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.

Takes

On Christopher McQuarrie

3 nominations, 1 wins

Awards record

Best Picture · Academy Awards 2023
Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay · Academy Awards 2023
Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
Nominated
Best Original Screenplay · Academy Awards 1996
Christopher McQuarrie
Won

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