Director
Patrick Creadon
May 1, 1967 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Patrick Creadon (born May 1, 1967) is an American documentary filmmaker, best known for the documentary film Wordplay. A profile of New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz, Wordplay premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and became the second-highest grossing documentary of that year. His second film, I.O.U.S.A., an examination of America's debt problem which forecast the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later named one of film critic Roger Ebert's Top 5 documentaries of the year. Since 2006, Creadon is one of only three filmmakers to release multiple films that were ranked within the Top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time. The other two filmmakers are Michael Moore (Sicko, Capitalism: A Love Story) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for 'Superman' ).
Notable work
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Full filmography · 14
The King of Color
Director and Writer
2025
The Loyola Project
Director
2022
Hesburgh
Director
2019
Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story
Director
2019
Catholics vs. Convicts
as Narrator (voice) and Director
2016
Ocean Stories: Wyland
Writer and Director
2016
All Work All Play: The Pursuit of eSports Glory Live
Director
20156
If You Build It
Director
2013
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
Director and Writer
2009
I.O.U.S.A.
Writer and Director
20087
Wordplay
Director and Writer
20067
Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
as Tom Sawyer
1982