Editing Christopher McQuarrie (section)

===1993–2000: Early films and Oscar win===
McQuarrie's first feature film was the 1993 thriller ''[[Public Access (film)|Public Access]]'', directed by [[Bryan Singer]]. It won the Critics Award at the [[Deauville American Film Festival]] and shared the [[Sundance Film Festival]]'s Grand Jury Prize. It was not released theatrically in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|author=Stax|url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/378/378940p1.html|title=Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer|website=[[IGN]]|date=December 9, 2002|access-date=March 28, 2010}}</ref> On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], it received an approval rating of 58%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/public_access|title=''Public Access''|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|date=January 28, 2003 |access-date=August 28, 2014}}</ref>

McQuarrie wrote ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'' (1995), for which he received Best Screenplay awards from the British and American Academy Awards, as well as from ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere Magazine]]'', the Texas Board of Review, and the Chicago Critics, as well as the [[Edgar Awards|Edgar Award]] and [[Independent Spirit Awards|Independent Spirit Award]]. It was later included on the ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' list of the 1000 greatest films ever made, and the character Verbal Kint was included on [[American Film Institute|AFI's]] list of the [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains|100 greatest Heroes and Villains]] of all time. In 2006, the [[Writers Guild of America]] voted ''The Usual Suspects'' #35 on their list of 101 Greatest Screenplays. In his third collaboration with Singer, McQuarrie did an extensive rewrite on ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'', but ultimately removed his name from the project.<ref name="Wolverine">{{cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Simon|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a171426/mcquarrie-tapped-to-write-wolverine-2/|title=McQuarrie tapped to write ''Wolverine 2''|date=August 14, 2009|work=Digital Spy|access-date=April 10, 2019}}</ref>

In 2000, McQuarrie made his directorial debut with ''[[The Way of the Gun]]'', a modern-day [[Western (genre)|Western]] for which he also wrote the script. It starred [[Benicio del Toro]], [[Ryan Phillippe]], [[Taye Diggs]], and [[James Caan (actor)|James Caan]]. The film, budgeted at US$8.5 million,<ref name=mojo-wayofthegun /> received mixed reviews<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/way_of_the_gun ''The Way of the Gun'' critical reviews], rottentomatoes.com; accessed August 28, 2014.</ref> and grossed US$13 million worldwide.<ref name=mojo-wayofthegun>{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=wayofthegun.htm|title=''The Way of the Gun''|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=August 28, 2014}}</ref>