Actor

Kevin Willmott

Contemporaryb. 1959ComedyDocumentarySci-FiDrama

Comic Visionary

Also directed 10 films ↗Also wrote 12 screenplays ↗

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Filmography

2023Chasing Chasing AmySelf7.7 2021Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black FilmmakingSelf6.2 2013Destination: Planet Negro!Dr. Warrington Avery6.5 2003The Search for Inflata-boyExpert8.0 1999Ninth StreetHuddie7.5

About

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.

As Director

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2005C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America 2013Destination: Planet Negro!1999Ninth Street 2009The Only Good Indian 2008Bunker Hill 2014Jayhawkers

As Screenwriter

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2020Da 5 Bloods 2018BlacKkKlansman 2013Destination: Planet Negro!2014Jayhawkers 2008Bunker Hill 2015Chi-Raq

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