Martin Mcdonagh

Martin McDonagh is an Oscar-winning filmmaker and director known for helming projects across dark comedy and historical drama. His directorial body of work includes acclaimed films such as In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Banshees of Inisherin. He maintains a long-term relationship with actor and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

In September 2026, McDonagh brought his feature project Wild Horse Nine to the Venice Film Festival for its world premiere. The dark historical spy comedy stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents stationed in Chile just before the 1973 military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. The plot centers on a chaotic chain of events triggered when an aging agent attempts to write his personal memoirs during a high-stakes period of American foreign intervention.

McDonagh attended the Venice screening alongside Malkovich, where the film earned a 13-minute standing ovation, though early critical reviews proved mixed. During a festival press conference, the filmmaker addressed thematic similarities between the period setting and modern geopolitical headlines, maintaining that any connection to contemporary foreign policy was entirely unintentional.