Person
Dee Rees
Directing · Born 1977-02-07 · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Biography
Diandrea Rees (born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director. She is known for her feature films Pariah (2011), Bessie (2015), Mudbound (2017), and The Last Thing He Wanted (2020). Rees has also written and directed episodes for television series, including Empire, When We Rise, and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams. Rees is the first African-American woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, for Mudbound. She has also received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film for Bessie. Reeds received a United States Artists Fellowship in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dee Rees, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Empire
Director
Upload
Director
Masters of the Air
Director
Space Force
Director
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Writer
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Saint X
Executive Producer
When We Rise
Director
The Last Thing He Wanted
Director
Mudbound
Director
Filmography
- 2024Hollywood BlackSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Masters of the AirDirector
- 2023Saint XExecutive Producer
- 2023Little Richard: I Am EverythingExecutive Producer
- 2020Space ForceDirector
- 2020UploadDirector
- 2020The Last Thing He WantedDirector
- 2018The BoxDirector
- 2017MudboundDirector
- 2017Philip K. Dick's Electric DreamsWriter
- 2017When We RiseDirector
- 2015BessieDirector
- 2015EmpireDirector
- 2013Boys On Film 9: Youth in TroubleDirector
- 2011PariahDirector
- 2009Eventual SalvationDirector
- 2009Colonial GodsDirector
- 2007PariahDirector
- 2006Orange BowDirector
- —An Uncivil WarDirector
- —Untitled Dee Rees Horror FilmDirector
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