Daniel Scheinert

Ridiculous premises played with total sincerity. In Swiss Army Man, a man stranded on a desert island finds a dead body washed ashore and discovers it has uses. The Death of Dick Long has two friends in small-town Alabama desperate to keep anyone from finding out how their friend died. Everything Everywhere All at Once, made with Daniel Kwan, sends an ageing Chinese immigrant across universes of the lives she could have led.

Signature

• Gross-out jokes about bodies (Swiss Army Man).
• Multiverse maximalism (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
• Small-town cover-ups (The Death of Dick Long).
• Co-directed as Daniels with Daniel Kwan.