Joko Anwar

**Joko Anwar** (born 3 January 1976) is an Indonesian movie director, screenwriter, producer, actor and editor.

## Early life

Joko Anwar was born on January 3, 1976 in a poor village in Medan, North Sumatra, and grew up watching kung fu and horror films. Since junior high school, he has also written and directed drama performances. Joko then attended the Bandung Institute of Technology to study aviation engineering, because his parents could not afford to send him to film school. After graduating in 1999, he became a journalist at The Jakarta Post and later a film critic.

## Career

While interviewing Nia Dinata for The Jakarta Post, the film producer and director was very impressed with Joko and asked him to write his film project which later became known as Arisan! (2003). The film was a huge success both commercially and critically and won several awards at home and abroad including "Best Film" at the 2004 Indonesian Film Festival and "Best Movie" at the MTV Indonesia Movie Awards in 2004.

## Filmmaker's confession

|rowspan="2" scope="col"|Year|rowspan="2" scope="col"|Title|colspan="2" scope="col"|Credited as|rowspan="2" scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2003|_Joni Be Brave_|||Directorial debut||||
|rowspan="4"|2012|_Durable Love_||||||
|_Suncatchers_||||||||
|_Grave Torture_|||Editor|||||
|_Fresh to Move On_||||||||
|2013|_The New Found_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|_Jenny_||||||
|_Jangan Kedip_||||||||
|2017|_Jalanin Aja_|||||||
|2020|_Kelompok Tidak Belajar_|||Producer||||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Awards|Category|Nominated works|Results||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2004|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Terbaik|_Arisan!_ (Nia Dinata)|||||
|rowspan="2"|2005|MTV Indonesia Movie Awards|_Best Director_|rowspan="2"|_Janji Joni_|||
|Festival Film Indonesia|Sutradara Terbaik|||||||
|2008|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Terbaik|_fiksi._ (Mouly Surya)|||||
|2009|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik|_Pintu Terlarang_|||||
|2015|Festival Film Indonesia|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="3"|_A Copy of My Mind_||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|rowspan="2"|Piala Maya|Sutradara Terpilih||||
|Penulis Skenario Asli Terpilih||||||||
|rowspan="8"|2017|rowspan="3"|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Asli Terbaik|_Stip & Pensil_ (Ernest Prakasa and Bene Dion Rajagukguk)|||
|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="9"|_Pengabdi Setan_||||||
|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Festival Film Tempo|Sutradara Terbaik||||||
|Penulis Skenario Terbaik||||||||
|rowspan="3"|Piala Maya|Sutradara Terpilih||||||
|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terpilih||||||||
|Penampilan Singkat nan Berkesan (Piala Arifin C. Noer)||||||||
|rowspan="2"|2018|rowspan="2"|Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards|Sutradara Terbaik||||
|Penulis Skenario Terbaik||||||||
|rowspan="4"|2019|rowspan="2"|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Asli Terbaik|_Orang Kaya Baru_|||
|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik|_Gundala_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Festival Film Tempo|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="4"|_Perempuan Tanah Jahanam_||||
|Penulis Skenario Terbaik||||||||
|rowspan="8"|2020|rowspan="2"|Piala Maya|Sutradara Terpilih||||
|Penulis Skenario Asli Terpilih||||||||
|Festival Film Bandung|Sutradara Terpuji Film Bioskop|_Gundala_||||||
|rowspan="3"|Festival Film Indonesia|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="2"|_Perempuan Tanah Jahanam_||||
|Penulis Skenario Asli Terbaik||||||||
|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik|_Ratu Ilmu Hitam_|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Indonesian Box Office Movie Awards|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="2"|_Perempuan Tanah Jahanam_||||
|Penulis Skenario Terbaik||||||||
|rowspan="3"|2023|Piala Maya|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terpilih|_Pengabdi Setan 2: Communion_||||
|Festival Film Bandung|Penulis Skenario Terpuji Film Indonesia|rowspan="2"|_Sri Asih_ (Upi Avianto)|||||
|Festival Film Indonesia|Penulis Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik|||||||
|rowspan="2"|2024|rowspan="2"|Festival Film Indonesia|Sutradara Terbaik|rowspan="2"|_Siksa Kubur_||
|Penulis Skenario Asli Terbaik||||||||

## Other websites

- Joko Anwar in IMDB

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Joko Anwar
- **image**: Joko Anwar Best Director Festival Film Indonesia 2015.jpg
- **caption**: Joko Anwar receiving Citra Award for Best Director of his movie _A Copy of My Mind_ at 2015 Indonesian Film Festival
- **birth place**: Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia
- **education**: Bandung Institute of Technology
- **occupation**: Movie director, screenwriter, movie producer, producer
- **years active**: 2003–present
- **signature**: Joko Anwar (signature).svg
- **website**: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090828110449/http://jokoanwar.com/ Official website]