Person
Roger Ross Williams
Directing · Born 1962-09-16 · Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Ross Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Storyville
Director
Independent Lens
Director
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Made in Hollywood
Self
Undercover Boss
Director
The Innocence Files
Executive Producer
The Super Models
Executive Producer
The 1619 Project
Director
The New Yorker Presents
Director
Cassandro
Director
Filmography
- 2025How to Build a LibraryExecutive Producer
- 2025Move Ya Body: The Birth of HouseExecutive Producer
- 2024The Battle for LaikipiaExecutive Producer
- 2024Stone MountainExecutive Producer
- 2024Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the WorldExecutive Producer
- 2023Through Sunless WaysExecutive Producer
- 2023Stamped from the BeginningProducer
- 2023Savior ComplexExecutive Producer
- 2023The Super ModelsExecutive Producer
- 2023CassandroDirector
- 2023TLC ForeverExecutive Producer's Assistant
- 2023Love to Love You, Donna SummerDirector
- 2023The 1619 ProjectDirector
- 2022Magic RingExecutive Producer
- 2022Civil: Ben CrumpProducer
- 2022Master of LightProducer
- 2021RangerProducer
- 2021High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed AmericaExecutive Producer
- 2020Between the World and MeExecutive Producer
- 2020One Story UpHost
- 2020The Innocence FilesExecutive Producer
- 2019The Remix: Hip Hop x FashionExecutive Producer
- 2019Jaiquan's SketchDirector
- 2019After MariaExecutive Producer
- 2019The ApolloCo-Producer
- 2019Traveling While BlackDirector
- 2018DogsDirector
- 2018Take Back the HarborDirector
- 2018American JailProducer
- 2018The Rachel DivideExecutive Producer
- 2016Land of the Lost SidekicksDirector
- 2016Life, AnimatedDirector
- 2016The New Yorker PresentsDirector
- 2015BlackfaceDirector
- 2015BlackfaceSelf
- 2015Close Up with The Hollywood ReporterSelf
- 2015Gospel of IntoleranceDirector
- 2014Tutu: The Essence of Being HumanDirector
- 2013God Loves UgandaDirector
- 2010Music by PrudenceProducer
- 2010Undercover BossDirector
- 2007Alone No LoveProducer
- 2006Amazing FamiliesDirector
- 2005Made in HollywoodSelf
- 2004Moroccan StyleDirector
- 2003New York UndergroundWriter
- 2003First Off The TeeDirector
- 2003Power, Privilege & JusticeProducer
- 2003The Lives They LivedProducer
- 2003Boys Will Be GirlsDirector
- 2002Secret SonDirector
- 2002Life 360Producer
- 2002Sheila Bridges: Designer LivingDirector
- 2001Challenge America With Erin BrockovichDirector
- 2001TimeProducer
- 2000Reagan: A Life In PicturesDirector
- 1999Independent LensDirector
- 1997StoryvilleDirector
- 1997Discovered at SundanceDirector
- 1996Sex, Drugs and ConsequencesProducer
- 1995People Yearbook '95Producer
- —The Empire of EbonyProducer
- —Strange ArrivalsDirector
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