318- ] English Literature - Alex Garland

318 - [ English Literature

Alex Garland

Personal life

Garland is married to English-Mexican actress Paloma Baeza, with whom he has a son and a daughter. He is an atheist. Garland has described himself as politically left, but has expressed concern over increasing political polarisation, particularly in America. He cited this concern as a core inspiration for his film Civil War.

Filmography

Film

Year

Title

Director

Writer

Producer

Notes

2002

28 Days Later

No

Yes

No

2007

Sunshine

No

Yes

No

28 Weeks Later

No

Uncredited[a]

Executive

2010

Never Let Me Go

No

Yes

Executive

2012

Dredd

Uncredited[b]

Yes

Yes

2014

Ex Machina

Yes

Yes

No

2018

Annihilation

Yes

Yes

No

2022

Men

Yes

Yes

No

2024

Civil War

Yes

Yes

No

2025

Warfare

Yes[c]

Yes

No

28 Years Later

No

Yes

Yes

2026

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

No

Yes

Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2020	Devs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also creator

Video games

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010), co-writer

DmC: Devil May Cry (2013), story supervisor

Other credits

The Beach (2000), cartographer, based on his 1996 novel

The Tesseract (2003), based on his 1998 novel

Big Game (2014), executive producer

Theatre

The Coma (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2006), based on his 2004 novel

Bibliography

The Beach (1996)

The Tesseract (1998)

The Coma (2004)

Critical reception

Title	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
Ex Machina	92% (284 ratings)	78 (42 reviews)
Annihilation	88% (327 ratings)	79 (51 reviews)
Devs	82% (90 ratings)	71 (32 reviews)
Men	69% (255 ratings)	65 (55 reviews)
Civil War	81% (391 ratings)	75 (60 reviews)
Warfare	93% (223 ratings)	77 (16 reviews)

Awards and nominations

Year		Film	Award	Category	Result
2002	28 Days Later		Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	Best Screenplay	Nominated
			Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form	Nominated
			Saturn Award	Best Writing	Nominated
2010		Never Let Me Go	British Independent Film Awards Evening Standard	Best Screenplay		Nominated
			British Film Awards	Best Screenplay		Nominated
			Saturn Award	Best Writing		Nominated
		Enslaved: Odyssey to the West	Writers' Guild of Great Britain	Best Continuing Drama		Won
2015		Ex Machina	Academy Awards Alliance of	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			Women Film Journalists	Best Writing, Original Screenplay	Nominated
			Austin Film critics Association	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			AACTA International Awards	Best Screenplay	Nominated
			BAFTA Awards	Outstanding British Film	Nominated
				Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
				Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer	Nominated
			Boston Society of Film Critics Awards	Best New Filmmaker	Nominated
			British Independent Film Awards	Best British Independent Film	Won
				Best Director	Won
				Best Screenplay	Won
			Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards	Best Screenplay	Nominated
			Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Most Promising Filmmaker	Nominated
				Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			Directors Guild of America Award	Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film	Won
			European Film Awards	Best European Screenwriter	Nominated
			Florida Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Screenplay	Nominated
			Gérardmer Film Festival	Jury Prize	Won
			Imagine Film Festival	Silver Scream Award	Won
			London Critics Circle Film Awards	Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker	Nominated
			Online Film Critics Society Awards	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			San Diego Film Critics Society	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			San Francisco Film Critics Circle	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
			Toronto Film Critics Association Awards	Best First Feature	Won
			Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards Saturn Awards	Best Director	Nominated
				Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
				Best Director	Nominated
				Best Writing	Nominated
2025		Civil War	Writers Guild of America Awards	Best Original Screenplay	Nominated
2026			28 Years Later BAFTA Awards	Outstanding British Film	Nominated