Bryan Buckley is an American filmmaker, activist, and two-time Academy Award nominated director, dubbed the "King of the Super Bowl" by the New York Times for his prolific career, having directed over 70 Super Bowl commercials.

In addition to his commercial work, he has directed two feature films and several short films. ASAD (2013), which was sighted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu for helping fight xenophobia in South Africa, and SARIA (2019) have been nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards. His two nominations in the same decade mark the first time a director has managed to return to the category in over 30 years. His first feature film, The Bronze (2015), opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, while his second, The Pirates of Somalia (2017), premiered at TriBeCa in 2017. His commercial production company, Hungry Man, which he co-founded with Hank Perlman in 1997, has grown into a force in the ad world, garnering every major advertising award including the Emmy for Best Commercial for Apple in 2024.

As a political activist, he has partnered with Gun Control advocacy group, Change the Ref. to create several pieces, including The Lost Class. Creating a fake school, Buckley tricked former NRA president David Keene and gun-rights advocate and researcher John Lott into addressing a sea of empty chairs, representing children and teenagers who were shot and killed before they could graduate from high school. The work was critically acclaimed, winning four grand CLIO’s, the Black Cube for Best of Show at the ADC awards, two Black Pencils from D&AD, Best of Show at The One Show and a Titanium at the Cannes Lions.

A 2010 Adweek Readers Poll named Buckley the Commercial Director of the Decade; he was also named one of the 50 best creative minds in the last 25 years by Creativity Magazine. In 2022, Buckley won best director from the CLIOs, D&AD and One Show. Most recently, his direction of the NFL's Super Bowl commercial, Run With It, was recognized with a Sports Emmy in 2023.