Personal Info
Birth date
1969-05-09 (56 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Also known as
Joseph Aaron Carnahan
Bo Anzo
Joe Carnahan
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Aaron "Joe" Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, producer and actor best known for his films Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane, Narc, Smokin' Aces and The A-Team. He is the brother of screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan.
Filmography
The Blacklist
7.641
Overview:
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.Shadow Force
6.138
Overview:
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in order to protect their son, they go underground. With a large bounty on their heads, and the vengeful Shadow Force hot on their trail, one family's fight becomes all-out war.Those Who Kill
6.043
Overview:
Follows Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective who enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.The Hire
7.583
Overview:
BMW Films presents "The Hire", a series of nine short films produced for the Internet in 2001 and 2002, with a ninth short film following in 2016. A form of branded content, all nine short films feature popular filmmakers from across the globe, star Clive Owen as the "Driver", and highlight the performance aspects of various BMW automobiles.Bad Boys for Life
7.132
Overview:
Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.State of Affairs
5.444
Overview:
Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises facing the country, one top CIA analyst - Charleston Tucker - assembles the President's Daily Briefing. This list of the most vital security issues facing the nation brings with it moral and political judgment calls for Charleston and her trusted group of brilliant analysts at the agency. Aside from the political minefields she has to walk, Charlie has a close personal relationship with the President because she was once engaged to her son before a tragic terrorist attack took his life. Charlie survived that attack and is now determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. Navigating a complex personal life and a pressure-cooker profession is, of course, a challenge, and Charlie sometimes engages in boundary-pushing behavior to avoid facing her grief. But when the clock strikes 2 a.m., she is all about her job - protecting her nation, serving her president and still trying to get to the bottom of her fiancé's murder that will reveal itself as a shocking mystery.The A-Team
6.408
Overview:
A man who loves when a plan comes together, Col. Hannibal Smith leads a close-knit team of elite operatives and Iraq War veterans. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, Smith and his men, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck, break out and go rogue, using their special talents to clear their names and find the perpetrator. Hot on their trail is Capt. Charissa Sosa, who was once involved with a member of Smith's team and has sworn to capture them, no matter what it takes.Fightworld
6.4
Overview:
Actor and fight enthusiast Frank Grillo travels the world, immersing himself in different fight cultures to understand their traditions and motivations.Boss Level
6.868
Overview:
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.Death Wish
6.189
Overview:
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.The Grey
6.564
Overview:
Following a grueling five-week shift at an Alaskan oil refinery, workers led by sharpshooter John Ottway are flying home for a much-needed vacation. But a brutal storm causes their plane to crash in the frozen wilderness, and only eight men, including Ottway, survive. As they trek southward toward civilization and safety, Ottway and his companions must battle mortal injuries, the icy elements, and a pack of hungry wolves.The Fourth Kind
6.347
Overview:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.Copshop
6.279
Overview:
On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught in the crosshairs.Smokin' Aces
6.489
Overview:
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.Pride and Glory
6.344
Overview:
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.Into the Ashes
5.013
Overview:
With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for what they have done.Narc
6.739
Overview:
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.The Rip
NYR
Overview:
After a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a derelict stash house, trust frays as everything — and everyone — is called into question.Stretch
6.189
Overview:
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.Wheelman
6.108
Overview:
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
5.322
Overview:
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.Point Blank
6.021
Overview:
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.Faceless
1
Overview:
Federal Prosecutor John Robson lives in Sherman Oaks with his young family. He is driven, brilliant and intuitive. Robson is fiercely certain that there is a link between all the crime factions in L.A., and that there is one overlord whose capture will topple them all. Despite losing support from the FBI, despite the nagging doubt of his assistant prosecutor, Diana Palos, and despite the mounting pressure from his wife to spend more time with their family, Robson won't back down from his conviction and set the wheels in motion, not for the first time, to try to get to the top via one of the middlemen, Lucas Reynosa. Before he can close the deal with Reynosa, however, Robson is brutally beaten, shot in the head, thrown into the river and left for dead - but manages to reach a phone for help and winds up in a hospital, where, after being in a coma for three months and learning that his family has been killed, he emerges, a new man with an old agenda: Eddie Pray.The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
7
Overview:
Follow Eastwood's career from television star to matinee idol to Oscar-winning director in this wide-ranging documentary.El Chicano
6.5
Overview:
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.Not Without Hope
NYR
Overview:
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
4.5
Overview:
Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films.Ticker
6.638
Overview:
The Driver drives a wounded diplomat, who carries a mysterious briefcase, while under helicopter attack. During the attack the briefcase is struck by a bullet, causing a display on it to begin counting down, and it to leak an unknown fluid from the bullet hole. The Driver manages to destroy his pursuers, but refuses to proceed without knowing the contents of the damaged briefcase. It is revealed that the diplomat guards a human heart for a peacekeeper, whose life is needed for the continued freedom of the people. The case is delivered, and the tyrant is forced to give up his attempt to take the country by force. The Driver leaves for another mission.Acting
2025Shadow Force as Shady Government Type
2021Boss Level as Customer at the Chinese Restaurant (uncredited)
2021A Journey to Sundance as Self
2014Out of Print as Self
2010The A-Team as Mike "The Operator"
2009Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock as Self
2008Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock as Self
2008Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro as Self
2008In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy as Self
2008The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry as Self
2008A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry as Self
2008The Business End: Violence in Cinema as Self
2008The Evolution of Clint Eastwood as Self
2004Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy as Self
2003Narc: Making the Deal as Self
2003Narc: The Visual Trip as Self
2003Narc: The Friedkin Connection as Self
1998Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane as Sid French
Writing
TBAFive Against a Bullet ... Screenplay
2026The Rip ... Writer
2025Not Without Hope ... Screenplay
2025Shadow Force ... Writer
2021Copshop ... Screenplay
2021Boss Level ... Writer
2020Bad Boys for Life ... Screenplay, Story
2019El Chicano ... Writer
2018Death Wish ... Screenplay
2014State of Affairs (2 Episodes) ... Teleplay
2014Stretch ... Screenplay, Story
2013The Blacklist (2, 1 Episode) ... Story, Teleplay
2012The Grey ... Screenplay
2010The A-Team ... Screenplay
2010Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball ... Characters, Story
2008Pride and Glory ... Screenplay
2006Smokin' Aces ... Writer
2002Ticker ... Writer
2002Narc ... Screenplay
2001The Hire (1 Episode) ... Writer
1998Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane ... Writer
1995Karate Raider ... Screenplay
Production
TBAFelix ... Producer
2025Not Without Hope ... Producer
2021Copshop ... Producer
2021Boss Level ... Producer
2019Into the Ashes ... Executive Producer
2019Point Blank ... Producer
2019El Chicano ... Producer
2018Fightworld (5 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
2017Wheelman ... Producer
2014Stretch ... Producer
2014Those Who Kill (1 Episode) ... Executive Producer
2013The Blacklist (22 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
2012The Devil's Dosh ... Executive Producer
2012The Grey ... Producer
2010Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball ... Executive Producer
2009The Fourth Kind ... Producer
2006Faceless (1 Episode) ... Executive Producer
1998Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane ... Producer
1996The Devil Takes a Holiday ... Co-Producer
Directing
2026The Rip ... Director
2025Not Without Hope ... Director
2025Shadow Force ... Director
2021Copshop ... Director
2021Boss Level ... Director
2014State of Affairs (4 Episodes) ... Director
2014Stretch ... Director
2014Those Who Kill (1 Episode) ... Director
2013The Blacklist (3 Episodes) ... Director
2012The Grey ... Director
2010The A-Team ... Director
2006Smokin' Aces ... Director
2006Faceless (1 Episode) ... Director
2002Ticker ... Director
2002Narc ... Director
2001The Hire (1 Episode) ... Director
1998Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane ... Director
Creator
2014State of Affairs ... Creator
Editing
1998Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane ... Editor