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A filmmaker who built a run of sharp, character-driven comedies — Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult — often in collaboration with screenwriter Diablo Cody, earning four Academy Award nominations including two for Best Director. The son of director Ivan Reitman, he later returned to his father's Ghostbusters franchise with Ghostbusters: Afterlife and directed the acclaimed 2024 drama Saturday Night, about the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.