Joe Carnahan Movies: Every Feature Directed, 1998–2026

Joe Carnahan has 12 directing credits on record, from 1998 to 2026. A directing filmography reads differently from an acting one: the gaps are the story, because a film takes years and a gap usually means a project that did not happen rather than a year off. 3 of the titles carry a recorded gross, and they are nominal figures, useful for scale, not for ranking.

Films directed

In release order. Figures are recorded worldwide grosses in US dollars where they exist, and nominal rather than inflation-adjusted.

1. 01 Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane 1998
2. 02 Narc 2002
3. 03 Ticker 2002
4. 04 Smokin' Aces 2006
5. 05 The A-Team recorded gross $177m 2010
6. 06 The Grey recorded gross $81m 2011
7. 07 Stretch 2014
8. 08 Boss Level recorded gross $2m 2020
9. 09 Copshop 2021
10. 10 Shadow Force 2025
11. 11 Not Without Hope 2025
12. 12 The Rip 2026

Where the credits fall

One frame per year from 1998 to 2026, filled where a credit lands, empty where none does. The empty frames are the informative part: a filmography is usually described by its total, and the total is the one thing that hides the gaps.

1. 98 1
2. 99
3. 00
4. 01
5. 02 2
6. 03
7. 04
8. 05
9. 06 1
10. 07
11. 08
12. 09
13. 10 1
14. 11 1
15. 12
16. 13
17. 14 1
18. 15
19. 16
20. 17
21. 18
22. 19
23. 20 1
24. 21 1
25. 22
26. 23
27. 24
28. 25 2
29. 26 1

1990s: 1 · 2000s: 3 · 2010s: 3 · 2020s: 5

The shape of the directing career

The first credit on record is 1998 and the most recent is 2026, with work in 10 separate years. 2002 was the busiest single year, with 2 credits landing in it, the kind of cluster that usually reflects films shot earlier arriving at once rather than an unusually productive twelve months.

The longest gap runs 6 years, between 2014 and 2020. A gap that size in a directing filmography is worth noticing rather than smoothing over: it is where the record stops describing a run of work and starts describing whatever happened instead, a project that collapsed, a move into other media, or simply nothing being offered. For a director it is almost always development that did not survive, since a film that gets made leaves a credit and a film that dies does not.

Reading the list

12 credits across 10 working years averages out at roughly 1.2 per year in the years with any work at all, a figure worth treating carefully, because release dates bunch and a filmography is a record of when films came OUT rather than when they were made. The highest recorded gross here is The A-Team at $177m, which on a list this size tells you where the resources went rather than which film is best.

What this page is built from

Structured film records, pulled by the same process that produces the cast pages here, not written from memory, which for credit data is how errors get in. A directing credit in that source can cover a feature, a short or one segment of an anthology, so the count is a count of credits rather than of features carried alone.

Questions about Joe Carnahan

How many films has Joe Carnahan directed?

12 on record, from 1998 to 2026. The list below is what the record credits as director, which can include shorts and segments as well as features.

Are the box-office figures comparable?

Only loosely. 3 of the 12 titles carry a recorded worldwide gross, they are in US dollars, and they are nominal, not adjusted for inflation, so an older release is being compared in older money.

Where do these details come from?

Structured film records pulled from Wikidata by the same process that builds the cast pages here, cross-checked against each film's own listed cast rather than written from memory. Where the record is thin — a missing character name, an unconfirmed billing order — the page says so, which is more useful than a confident sentence with nothing behind it.