Billy Ray

Billy Ray is an American screenwriter and film director, born in Los Angeles, California in 1962. He is known for his work on films such as "The Hunger Games," "Captain Phillips" (for which he received an Oscar nomination and a Writers Guild of America Award), "Shattered Glass," and "Richard Jewell." Ray began his writing career in 1994 and has since written and directed numerous successful projects for film and television. In 2026, he published his first young adult novel, "Burn the Water."