2006Nominee
Best Performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
James Ward Byrkit
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
USA
Biography
James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence and co-writing the script for Rango, one of his many collaborations with Gore Verbinski. For Rango, Byrkit starred as several characters, most notably Waffles, a horned lizard. Byrkit also was the conceptual artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and designed some of the most iconic sequences of the series. Byrkit also directed the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011), which serves as a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2007Nominee
Best Performance
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
2017Nominee
Best Writing
Baby Driver
Career Highlights
2011Highlight
Best Performance
Rango
2014Highlight
Best Director
Coherence
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Baby Driver