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Kevin Willmott

Writing · Born 1959-08-31 · Junction City, Kansas, USA

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

2024Hollywood BlackSelf
2023Chasing Chasing AmySelf
2022No Place Like HomeDirector
2021Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black FilmmakingSelf
2020The 24thDirector
2020Da 5 BloodsWriter
2018BlacKkKlansmanWriter
2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with KansasDirector
2015Chi-RaqExecutive Producer
2014JayhawkersWriter
2013Destination: Planet Negro!Dr. Warrington Avery
2009The Only Good IndianDirector
2008Bunker HillWriter
2005C.S.A.: The Confederate States of AmericaDirector
2003The Search for Inflata-boyExpert
1999Ninth StreetHuddie
—Arthur AsheScreenplay
—The BardDirector

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