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Ava DuVernay
Long Beach, California, USA
Ava Marie DuVernay (/ˌdjuːvərˈneɪ/; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Aw…
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Ava Marie DuVernay (/ˌdjuːvərˈneɪ/; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directorial debut with I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the film went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her other film credits include the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary 13th (2016) and the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018), the latter making her the first African-American woman to direct a film with a $100 million budget. In 2023, she directed the biographical film Origin based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). DuVernay's television credits include the OWN drama series Queen Sugar (2016) and two Netflix drama limited series: When They See Us (2019), based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case, and Colin in Black & White (2021), based on the teenage years of NFL player Colin Kaepernick. In 2017, DuVernay was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2020, she was elected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences board of governors as part of the directors branch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ava DuVernay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
14th
Movie Director
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2025
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
TV show Self
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2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self
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2024
Becoming King
Movie Self
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2023
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2023
Origin
Movie Writer
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2022
Only in Theaters
Movie Self
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2022
One Perfect Shot
TV show Self - Director
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2022
DMZ
TV show Director
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2022
Naomi
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Colin in Black and White
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Home Sweet Home
TV show Creator
- 2021
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2021
Regard Noir
Movie Self
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2021
Directors on Directors
TV show Self
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2021
The White Tiger
Movie Producer
More credits
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2020
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Aggie
Movie Self
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2020
And She Could Be Next
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Dear...
TV show Self
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2020
#blackAF
TV show Ava DuVernay
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2020
Cherish the Day
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
TV show Ava DuVernay
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2019
Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now
Movie Self
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2019
When They See Us
TV show Story
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2019
The Red Line
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
Desus & Mero
TV show Self - Illustrious Guest
- 2018
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2018
Shine On with Reese
TV show Self
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2018
A Wrinkle in Time
Movie Director
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2018
Half the Picture
Movie Self
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2018
Family Feud
Movie Director
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2017
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People
Movie Writer
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2017
Girls Trip
Movie Ava DuVernay
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2017
The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits
Movie Self
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2017
13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay
Movie Herself
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2016
Black America Again
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
13th
Movie Director
