James E. Oakley (born 1972/1973)[1] is an American film director, producer and writer.
In 2005, Oakley directed his first feature film The Devil You Know starring Dean Winters, Rosamund Pike, Lena Olin and then aspiring actress Jennifer Lawrence.
I met my whole team there—the director of photography, the writer, the producer, the set designers—and we wanted to make a feature quickly out of the program.
[5] Oakley described the film as a "heist comedy" and said it was like "The Palm Beach Story meets A Fish Called Wanda".
[1] It also features an ensemble cast of Kristin Chenoweth, Tim Roth, Alice Eve, Sofía Vergara, Maggie Q, Parker Posey and Stephen Fry.