Brandon Scott Trost (born August 29, 1981) is an American cinematographer, screenwriter, and film director whose credits include writing and directing The FP (2011) with his brother Jason, as well as being the cinematographer of several films, including Crank: High Voltage, Halloween II, MacGruber, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance and That's My Boy.

Trost's first film as a solo director, An American Pickle, was released in 2020.

His grandfather, Scott Maitland, was an assistant director,[2] and his great-grandfather was a stuntman.

[5] He grew up in Frazier Park, California with his brother Jason and sister Sarah.

[6][7] Trost has cited Andrew Laszlo as one of his favorite cinematographers, calling Streets of Fire "one of the most amazing-looking movies from the 1980s.