Avary produced the film Glitterati and executive produced the movies Boogie Boy, The Rules of Attraction, and Beowulf. In 2012 he served as executive producer of the television series XIII: The Series. Avary won an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Pulp Fiction in 1995 with Quentin Tarantino. Avary was arrested under suspicion of DUI and manslaughter after a car crash in 2008 and ended up serving eight months for gross vehicular manslaughter.