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David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director. His films, mostly thrillers, have received 40 nominations at the Academy Awards, including three for him as Best Director. Born in Denver, Colorado, Fincher was interested in filmmaking at an early age. He directed numerous music videos, most notably Madonna's "Express Yourself" in 1989 and "Vogue" in 1990, both of which won him the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction. He made his feature film debut with Alien 3 (1992), which garnered mixed reviews, followed by the thriller Seven (1995), which was better received. Fincher found lukewarm success with The Game (1997) and Fight Club (1999), but the latter eventually became a cult classic. In 2002, he returned to prominence with the thriller Panic Room starring Jodie Foster. Fincher also directed Zodiac (2007), The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Mank (2020). For The Social Network, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and BAFTA Award for Best Direction. His biggest commercial successes are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Gone Girl (2014), both of which grossed more than $300 million worldwide, with the former earning thirteen nominations at the Academy Awards, and eleven at the British Academy Film Awards. He also served as an executive producer and director for the Netflix series House of Cards (2013–2018) and Mindhunter (2017–2019), winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the pilot episode of House of Cards. Fincher was the co-founder of Propaganda Films, a film, and music.

The officers at New York’s 77th precinct put their lives on the line day after day by covering one of the most dangerous areas in the city. One night, a group of the department’s employees consisting of rookie detective Quinton Clark, recently transferred csi Lonnie Rivera, hotheaded beat cop Cole Gardner, upbeat Lieutenant Oliver Simmons, hardened officer Olivia Davis, timid medical inspector Edward Hedges, by the book’s sergeant Blake Cox, bigoted Captain Ford, and his secretary Darcy Simmons are forced to stay for an overnight shift due to exceeded threats in the area. The tension is already high do to being forced to stay late but everything comes to a boiling point when Captain Ford is found by Darcy to be dead in his office. Sergeant Cox springs into action and puts the entire department into lockdown. Nobody leaves until the killer is found. Clark and Rivera immediately jump on the case. After a long night of interrogation in which seemingly everyone present had motive, they deduce that the killer is Darcy. But this is no job for one person. The methods in which the murder was executed required it to be a two man job, furthermore, that other person had to be an expert in the field. The group of officers rush into the medical examiner’s office only to find him staring over Darcy’s body with a malicious smirk across his face.
