Simon David Kinberg (born August 2, 1973) is an American filmmaker. He wrote and produced a number of films in the X-Men film franchise for 20th Century Fox and had produced a number of other projects for Fox, such as The Martian, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

Kinberg made his directorial debut in the 2019 X-Men film Dark Phoenix from a script he also wrote.

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