R.J. Cutler is an award-winning filmmaker whose has directed such films as Martha, Elton John: Never Too Late, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry, BELUSHI, The World According to Dick Cheney, The September Issue, and A Perfect Candidate. He has produced such films as The War Room, Thin, Listen to Me Marlon, and The Disappearance of Shere Hite. For television, Cutler has directed and/or Executive Produced such programs as Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, Elton John Live, Murf the Surf, Dear…, Nashville, 30 Days, Freshman Diaries, and American High.

Cutler is the founder of This Machine Filmworks, an LA-based production company specializing in the development and production of premium documentary content, which is a part of Sony Non-Fiction Television.

Cutler’s work has been nominated for two Academy Awards and a Writer’s Guild Award, and he is the recipient of numerous other awards including three Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a GLAAD Award, two Cinema Eye Awards and two Television Academy Honor Awards. In 2009, the Museum of Television and Radio held a four-day retrospective of R.J.’s work. In 2021, R.J. received the Critics’ Choice Pennebaker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Documentary Film.