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Dee Rees
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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 Thin…
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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.
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2024
Masters of the Air
TV show Director
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2023
Saint X
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Space Force
TV show Director
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2020
Upload
TV show Director
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2020
The Last Thing He Wanted
Movie Director
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2018
The Box
Movie Writer
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2017
Mudbound
Movie Director
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2017
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
TV show Writer
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2017
When We Rise
TV show Director
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2015
Bessie
Movie Director
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2015
Empire
TV show Director
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2013
Boys On Film 9: Youth in Trouble
Movie Director
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2011
Pariah
Movie Writer
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2009
Eventual Salvation
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
Colonial Gods
Movie Director
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2007
Pariah
Movie Director
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2006
Orange Bow
Movie Director
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An Uncivil War
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