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Barry Jenkins
Miami, Florida, USA
Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Med…
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Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a creative collaborator and a member of The Chopstars collective. Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBTQ-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney. He became the fourth Black person nominated for Best Director and the second to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature If Beale Street Could Talk 2018, to critical praise and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. He is also known for his work in television. In 2017, Jenkins directed "Chapter V" of the Netflix series Dear White People. In 2021, he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad, based on the novel of the same name. The series received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination and won a Peabody Award. In 2017, Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Fence
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Preparation for the Next Life
Movie Producer
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2025
Sorry, Baby
Movie Producer
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2025
Harvest
Movie Thanks
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2025
I Wish You Would
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Night Bloom
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Mufasa: The Lion King
Movie Director
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2024
The Fire Inside
Movie Producer
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2023
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Movie Producer
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2023
Another Young Couple
Movie
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2023
Weapons and Their Names
Movie Associate Producer
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2022
Aftersun
Movie Producer
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2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV show Self - Director, The Underground Railroad
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2021
The Underground Railroad
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
The Gaze
Movie Director
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2021
Neighbors
Movie Thanks
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2020
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
TV show Self
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2020
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Charm City Kings
Movie Story
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2019
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Movie Associate Producer
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2018
If Beale Street Could Talk
Movie Director
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2018
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'
TV show Self
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2017
Dear White People
TV show Director
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2016
Moonlight
Movie Director
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2016
Reagan
Movie Thanks
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2014
The High Five
Movie Producer
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2014
Trailblazer Honors
TV show Self - Speaker
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2014
True Detective
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
King's Gym
Movie Director
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2013
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse
Movie Star King Zorzdon Pxxa
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2013
Sun Don't Shine
Movie Thanks
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2011
Chlorophyl
Movie Writer
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2011
Remigration
Movie Writer
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2009
Tall Enough
Movie Director
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2009
A Young Couple
Movie Director
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2009
One Shot
Movie Director
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2009
Medicine for Melancholy
Movie Director
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2003
Little Brown Boy
Movie Director
