His films include Snowtown (2011), Macbeth (2015), Assassin's Creed (2016), True History of the Kelly Gang (2018), Nitram (2021) and The Order (2024).

Justin Dallas Kurzel[2] was born around 1974 in Gawler, South Australia to a family with immigrant roots, his father hailing from Poland and his mother from Malta.

Though controversial for its violence, the film was generally praised and holds an 84% on Rotten Tomatoes with the critic consensus: "It's a bleak and brutal endurance test, but for viewers with the strength and patience to make it to the end, Snowtown will prove an uncommonly powerful viewing experience.

[15] In late 2020, it was announced Kurzel would direct Nitram, a film depicting the events leading up to the Port Arthur massacre.

[17] In 2019, it was announced Kurzel would adapt Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North for television, with frequent collaborator Shaun Grant.