Jonah Hill made his film debut in the 2004 independent black comedy ‘I Heart Huckabees’ directed by David O. Russell. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and earned a 62% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2005, he starred in the American romantic comedy film ‘The 40-Year-Old Virgin’ directed by Judd Apatow. The film opened to a positive reception and was a major financial success, grossing over $177.4 million on a budget of $26 million. He continued to star in films like ‘Grandma's Boy’ (2006), ‘Accepted’ (2006), ‘Rocket Science’ (2007), ‘Knocked Up’ (2007), ‘Superbad’ (2007), ‘Strange Wilderness’ (2008), ‘Horton Hears a Who!’ (2008), ‘Funny People’ (2009), ‘The Invention of Lying’ (2009), ‘Cyrus’ (2010), ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ (2010), and ‘Megamind’ (2010). He portrayed ‘Peter Brand’ in the 2011 American sports drama film ‘Moneyball’ directed by Bennett Miller. The film saw critical acclaim upon release and performed well at the box office, grossing over $110.2 million on a $50 million budget. Hill also received several award nominations, including ‘Academy Award’ and ‘BAFTA Award’ nominations, for his performance in the film. The following year, he starred as ‘Morton Schmidt’ in the American satirical buddy cop action comedy film ‘21 Jump Street’ directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $201.6 million at the box office.
Hill received his second ‘Academy Award’ nomination for his portrayal of ‘Donnie Azoff’ in the 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ directed by Martin Scorsese. The film garnered wide praise from critics and was a major financial success, grossing over $392 million on a budget of $100 million. He went on to star in films such as ‘The Lego Movie’ (2014), ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ (2014), ‘22 Jump Street’ (2014), ‘True Story’ (2015), ‘Sausage Party’ (2016), ‘War Dogs’ (2016), ‘The Lego Batman Movie’ (2017), ‘Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot’ (2018), ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ (2019), ‘The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part’ (2019), and ‘The Beach Bum’ (2019). He was last seen playing the role of ‘Jason Orlean’ in the 2021 American apocalyptic satire film ‘Don't Look Up’ directed by Adam McKay. The film had the critics divided with one side praising the humor and performance of the cast while others calling it a smug satire film.
German dentist-turned-bounty-hunter Dr. King Schultz buys African-American slave Django, promising him freedom in exchange for leading Schultz to three outlaw Brittle brothers, overseers at the plantation of Django's former owner. Schultz subsequently enlists Django as his apprentice and accompanies him on a dangerous mission to free his wife Broomhilda, who was sold separately after the couple tried to escape.
This biographical film focuses on the rise of Jordan Belfort from an entry-level employee at a brokerage firm to founding his own firm that engaged in massive security scams involving widespread corruption on Wall Street. However, his decadent lifestyle of sex, drugs and excess led to his downfall by attracting the attention of the FBI.
Inseparable friends Seth and Evan, who are unpopular at school, are invited to a girl's party and offer to buy the drinks to impress their respective crushes, and hopefully, make sexual advances before school ends. However, their plan goes awry after their nerdy friend with a fake ID, Fogell, is stopped by two inept cops.
Based on true events and Michael Lewis’s book of the same name, Moneyball is a depiction of the Oakland Athletics baseball team’s 2002 season. The movie shows how manager Billy Beane and Yale economics graduate Peter Brand, revolutionized conventional baseball wisdom by using sabermetric to create a winning team despite having a limited budget.
A security guard named Richard Jewell becomes an instant hero after he foils a bomb attack by alerting the police force in time. However, he soon becomes a suspect himself in the bombing case, which turns his life upside down, into a nightmare.
Based on a 1980s television show of the same name, 21 Jump Street sees two cops who were former classmates return to their high school in order to contain a synthetic drug outbreak. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum’s impressive performances as undercover high school students has hilarious antics and plenty of laughs.
A sex comedy film that follows the titular 40-year-old virgin Andy and his friends who try to help him lose his virginity, the movie is full of funny moments filled with sexual innuendos. The film received positive reviews and was a commercial success.
The romantic comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the story of music composer Peter Bretter and his attempts to get over his break-up with TV celebrity and girlfriend Sarah Marshall. Peter heads for a Hawaii vacation to escape his grief, but there he meets none-other-than Sarah with her new rock-star boyfriend, which leads to some hilarious situations.
David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli get together to sell weapons to the US government during the Iraq war. They start off small but gradually get into bigger deals. However, their biggest challenge comes in the form of $300 million Afghan deal. To fulfil the contract, they must contact some dubious people.
Despite the success of their previous program, officers Schmidt and Jenko are sent back to the program, now at 22 Jump Street, after failing to capture some drug dealers. They go undercover at a local college to locate the supplier of new drug, WHY-PHY, but the partnership of the two overgrown adolescents is thoroughly tested along the way.
Alison Scott goes to a night club to celebrate her promotion and ends up having a one night stand with reckless pothead Ben Stone that results in pregnancy. Deciding to keep the baby despite possible negative implications in her life and job, she tracks down Ben who, a big baby himself, tries his best to support her.
Alex, a 35 years old video game tester is forced to move in with his grandmother Lily and her two wacky roommates. But the three older women serve as a constant distraction for Alex’s professional life. Meanwhile, Alex falls in love with co-worker, Samantha, but his rival J.P. is adamant about destroying Alex.
This Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg directed movie is based on the story they co-wrote for a short film Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse. Six friends are stranded in a house post a series of calamitous events hit Los Angeles. As they wait for help, decreasing food supplies and other issues affect their friendship. Still they must find a way to survive.
Albert Markovski heads the local chapter of an environmental group trying to stop the building of a new Huckabees store. Soon, local Huckabees executive and Albert’s rival, Brad Stand, infiltrates the group and replaces him. After strange coincidences start happening Albert hires existential detectives, Bernard and Vivian Jaffe and things get hilariously complicated.
An actor who is preparing for an upcoming role and a feisty clerk working at a grocery store, meet through circumstances, and drive around Los Angeles together. They have several conversations where they explore the differences as well as the similarities between their worlds.
Rocket Science is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a teen boy, who has a lot of questions about life. He soon joins his high school’s debate team, and finds himself falling in love with a girl who is the star member of the team.
Michael Newman is unable to spend more time with his family while he is pursuing his dream promotion at work. He wishes for a universal remote to control his life, and gets one from the eccentric inventor Morty. He pauses, skips and rewinds through his life until he eventually realizes that he has lost control of his life altogether.
After being rejected from all colleges, senior Bartleby Gaines decides to open his own fake college named South Harmon Institute of Technology or S.H.I.T. To make the college seem legitimate he and his friends create a website and lease a building. Things become complicated when rejected students from all over the country start enrolling.
Aaron Green, an employee of a record company facing recession, is given an assignment of escorting rock-star Aldous Snow from London to L.A.’s Greek Theater for a comeback concert. Green has only 72 hours to get the rock-legend, who has slipped back into drugs and wild ways after personal and professional crisis. How does Green achieve this to save his career?
Successful stand-up comedian George Simmons, who has no close family or friends, is diagnosed with a rare, terminal disorder. With less than a year to live, he appoints Ira Wright, a struggling comedian, as his personal assistant who soon becomes his close friend. When his disease goes into remission and his ex-girlfriend re-connects with him, George tries to figure out his priorities.
Mark Bellison is a screenwriter of historical readings in an alternate universe where the concept of lying does not exist and people tell whatever is on their minds. After being fired from his job and warned of being evicted, he blurts out a lie in the bank and realizes how it can change his life forever.
Based in 1950s Hollywood, Hail, Caesar! is a dark comedy that revolves around a movie industry 'fixer' who is tasked with investigating the disappearance of the star of a biblical epic. With a stellar star cast, this film showcases the dark side of Hollywood of that era where fixers would clean up the messes of the bigwigs of the movie business.
A disgraced journalist working for the New York Times is accused of lying in a cover article. However, he eventually learns that an accused killer has taken on his identity, and is right now serving time in jail, and he is a victim of identity theft.
Soon after his ex-wife tells John about getting re-married, he meets and falls in love with Molly, the woman of his dreams. The new couple's honeymoon phase comes to a crashing end when John finds out about Molly's son Cyrus who is not too happy about sharing his mother
Four friends, Evan, Bob, Franklin, and Jamarcus in the town of Glenview, Ohio, form a neighborhood watch to find out who is killing their townspeople. When they discover aliens living amongst them and an alien plot to conquer the world, they must find a way to stop the invasion.
A suspended college student is forced by his mother to babysit for her friend’s three problematic children. While in the middle of it, he receives a call from his girlfriend, who wants him to procure drugs for her party, promising to pay it back with sex. Accepting the offer, he sets off with the children, unaware of what lies ahead.
After winning a Congress seat, news anchorman Evan Baxter moves with his family to Northern Virginia. Shockingly, he receives God’s instructions to build an ark to save the life from a forthcoming flood. Though Evan ignores initially, he soon starts getting deliveries of tools, materials and pairs of all sorts of animals, and also finds himself turning slowly into Noah.
Since his father’s animal-based TV show is threatened to be cancelled, Peter decides to go to Ecuador in search of Bigfoot in an attempt to help his father save his show.
A 13 year old boy lives with his abusive older brother and his single mother. Soon, his life takes a turn when he begins to spend time with a group of older skateboarders.
On the Island of Berk, a young Viking, Hiccup wishes to join the fight against dragons and protect his village. However, he is deemed unfit for the role by his father. He still manages to capture a dragon, only to realise that he has no desire to kill it. The two instead become friends and Hiccup learns more about dragons and why they attack.
The sequel to the beloved children’s classic How to Train Your Dragon (2010), the movie finds Hiccup and Toothless and their friends united against the power-hungry warlord Drago Bludvist. Hiccup must not only rescue the dragons from Drago’s army but reunite with his mother Valka, Stoic’s long-lost wife.
Emmet Brickowski is an ordinary construction worker in the Lego universe, but is mistaken to be the prophesied Special after he finds the Piece of Resistance capable of stopping the super-weapon Kragle. He is recruited into a group fighting evil Lord Business, who stole Kragle, but is terribly unprepared for the epic adventure.
A supervillain Megamind kills the superhero Metroman after a long battle and takes over the Metro City. However, with no one to challenge his authority, he is soon bored. He, thus, creates a superhero to work against him. The problem begins when the superhero begins acting like a supervillain committing various crimes. Will the supervillain now take on the mantle of superhero?
The movie set in DCs Lego Universe sees Batman trying to thwart his arch-nemesis Joker’s latest plans to destroy Gotham. When the Joker gets his hand on the Phantom Zone projector and recruits all the iconic villains from movies, Batman is forced to team up to stop the Joker.
The elephant, Horton, discovers the tiny city of Whoville and all its residents—the Whosvresiding on a speck of dust. However, he can only hear them, not see them. Horton now has to race against time and convince other jungle animals to find a more stable environment for Whoville, as none of them can actually see Whoville.
Anthropomorphic edible grocery items in the supermarket Shopwell’s believe that humans are gods who take them to a utopia called the ‘Great Beyond’. When the sausage Frank finds out that the 'Great Beyond' is a lie and they will be eaten, he devises a plan with his friends to escape the humans.
A young Dewey Cox accidentally kills his brother with a machete. The trauma makes him develop an affinity for playing blues. Dewey grows up to become a drug-fuelled, alcoholic, but massively successful musician. While a final machete duel with his father awaits him, he must also sort through his messy life to find what really matters.
In this second installment in the Night at the Museum series, Larry learns that the exhibits will be moved to the Smithsonian Institution without the Tablet of Ahkmenrah. He soon receives a call for help from Jedediah who, along with his other friends, is under attack from Kahmunrah. Kahmunrah intends to raise an army and conquer the world. Larry now must save his friends.
Jonah Hill Awards
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Best Comedic Performance | 2014 |
