Known For
Writing
Born
Aug 31, 1959
Place of Birth
Junction City, Kansas, USA
Credits
19 titles
Kevin Willmott
Biography
Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. He is known for work focusing on black issues, including writing and directing Ninth Street, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, and Bunker Hill. His The Only Good Indian (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place. In Jayhawkers (2014), he followed the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen and the 1956 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team. Willmott has collaborated with Spike Lee, with whom he shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman. The two again collaborated in writing Da 5 Bloods, released worldwide digitally on June 12, 2020. Wilmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Willmott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Hollywood Black
Self
Chasing Chasing Amy
Self
No Place Like Home
Director
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
The 24th
Director
Da 5 Bloods
Writer
BlacKkKlansman
Writer
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Director
Chi-Raq
Executive Producer
Jayhawkers
Dowdall Davis
Destination: Planet Negro!
Dr. Warrington Avery
The Only Good Indian
Director
Bunker Hill
Director
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Director
The Search for Inflata-boy
Expert
Ninth Street
Huddie
One Eye Open
Detective Fowler
The Bard
Director
Arthur Ashe
Screenplay