Who directed the 2005 film adaptation of 'Pride & Prejudice'?

Who directed the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice? Joe Wright directed the 2005 film adaptation.

Pride & Prejudice was Wright’s feature-film directorial debut. The film adapted Jane Austen’s 1813 novel through a screenplay credited to Deborah Moggach, with Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet and Matthew Macfadyen as Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Wright approached the story as a vivid romantic drama rather than a museum-piece literary adaptation. The film emphasizes movement, landscape, family noise, and the physical awkwardness of social encounters, while retaining Austen’s central themes of first impressions, class, marriage, and moral self-correction. Wright also chose not to study every earlier adaptation, hoping to develop a distinct visual style.

Several names in the answer choices belong to related Austen projects or other adaptations. Andrew Davies wrote the screenplay for the famous 1995 television serial, Ang Lee directed Sense and Sensibility, and Gurinder Chadha directed Bride & Prejudice, a modern Bollywood-influenced adaptation. None directed the 2005 Pride & Prejudice.