He is best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Revenant (2015), The Midnight Sky (2020), The Boys in the Boat (2023), and Twisters (2024).
Smith wrote and directed the 2006 film Séance, which won the Festival Prize at the Eureka Springs Digital Film Festival and the Horror Genre Award at ShockFest.
[2] Together with Alejandro González Iñárritu, he co-wrote The Revenant, based in part on the novel of the same name by Michael Punke.
The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter.
Smith was hired by Paramount to write the script for the fourth film in the rebooted Star Trek series in December 2017.