page_title: Jake Gyllenhaal
section_title: 2012–present
hierarchical_section_title: Jake Gyllenhaal / Life and career / 2012–present
caption_attribution_description: English: Jake Gyllenhaal at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival 2012.
context_page_description: Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor and film producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers, followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman and Homegrown. His breakthrough performances were as Homer Hickam in October Sky and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko. His most widely seen film to that point came with the disaster film The Day After Tomorrow.
  Gyllenhaal won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romance Brokeback Mountain. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac, the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs, and the science fiction film Source Code. He continued to gain acclaim for Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners and Enemy, and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his roles as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals.
context_section_description: In 2012, Gyllenhaal starred alongside Michael Peña in David Ayer's action thriller End of Watch, about two Los Angeles street cops. The film was released on September 21 and received positive reviews, with Roger Ebert saying that "End of Watch is one of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso fusion of performances and often startling action", and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir stating that the film was "at least the best cop movie since James Gray's We Own the Night, and very likely since Antoine Fuqua's memorable Training Day (which, not coincidentally, was written by Ayer)". To prepare for the role, Gyllenhaal took tactical training and participated in actual police drives with co-star Peña to help establish the language of the characters. On December 19, 2011, he was announced as a jury member for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival that was held in February 2012.
  Also in 2012, Gyllenhaal made his Off-Broadway debut in Nick Payne's If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre. Gyllenhaal debuted on Broadway in 2014 in Payne's Constellations at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre opposite Ruth Wilson, also in her Broadway debut. Gyllenhaal joined John Mauceri and David Denby in Adam Gopnik's podium discussion in February 2016 at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center about Leonard Bernstein's breakthrough conducting performance in Carnegie Hall on November 14, 1943; accompanied by Jeanine Tesori on piano, he sang "Maria" from West Side Story.
  2013 saw Gyllenhaal appear in two films directed by Denis Villeneuve, whom Gyllenhaal describes as "an older brother". The first of films to be released, the thriller Prisoners, starred Gyllenhaal as a detective named Loki in search of the abductor of two young girls, one of which is fathered by Hugh Jackman's character. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers praised Gyllenhaal's "exceptional" performance in the film. In their second collaboration, Gyllenhaal starred in a dual role as a history teacher and his doppelgänger in the thriller Enemy. In 2014, he produced and starred in the crime thriller Nightcrawler, earning him a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for his performance. The film garnered an acclaimed response; Ben Sachs of Chicago Reader called Gyllenhaal's performance "attention-grabbing ... he creates a memorable screen presence". 
  Gyllenhaal had four film releases in 2015. He starred in the comedy Accidental Love (formerly titled Nailed), which was filmed in South Carolina with Jessica Biel. The film was critically panned by critics. Next, he starred in Antoine Fuqua's sports drama Southpaw, which received generally a warm response. Writing for The Independent, Geoffrey Macnab opined his portrayal as a boxer "plausible", and complimented his "emotional vulnerability", despite an unoriginal plot. Then he was cast in Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, where Gyllenhaal portrayed American mountaineer Scott Fischer. The film was a commercial success, grossing $203 million worldwide. Finally, he appeared in Jean-Marc Vallée's comedy-drama Demolition, playing an investment banker Davis Mitchell, who rebuilds his life after losing his wife. Although it garnered a mixed reception,The Village Voice critic praised his performance, writing, "He nails Davis's boyish curiosity, the quiet, wide-eyed uncertainty of someone discovering the world for the first time." That same year, he also served as a jury member for the main competition of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
  In 2016, he starred in Tom Ford's neo-noir thriller Nocturnal Animals, based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright. Gyllenhaal plays an estranged ex-husband and novelist. The film received mostly positive reviews; Justin Chang of Los Angeles Times praised Gyllenhaal's "rich" performance until it "overwhelms the picture". In 2016, he appeared in four benefit concert performances of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical Sunday in the Park with George at the New York City Center on October 24–26
caption: Gyllenhaal at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, 2012
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