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Kevin Willmott
Junction City, Kansas, USA
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 dir…
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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.
Filmography
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2023
Chasing Chasing Amy
Movie Self
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2022
No Place Like Home
Movie Director
- 2021
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2020
The 24th
Movie Director
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2020
Da 5 Bloods
Movie Writer
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2018
BlacKkKlansman
Movie Writer
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2018
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Movie Director
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2015
Chi-Raq
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
Jayhawkers
Movie Dowdall Davis
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2013
Destination: Planet Negro!
Movie Dr. Warrington Avery
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2009
The Only Good Indian
Movie Director
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2008
Bunker Hill
Movie Director
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2005
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Movie Director
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2003
The Search for Inflata-boy
Movie Expert
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1999
Ninth Street
Movie Huddie
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The Bard
Movie Director
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Arthur Ashe
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One Eye Open
Movie Detective Fowler
