- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- August 31, 1959
- Place of Birth
- Junction City, Kansas, USA
Kevin Willmott
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…
Filmography
tvHollywood Black
2024 · Self
movieChasing Chasing Amy
2023 · Self
movieNo Place Like Home
2022 · Director
movieOscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021 · Self
movieThe 24th
2020 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieDa 5 Bloods
2020 · Writer
movieBlacKkKlansman
2018 · Writer
movieWilliam Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
2018 · Director, Writer
movieChi-Raq
2015 · Executive Producer, Writer
movieJayhawkers
2014 · Director, Writer
movieDestination: Planet Negro!
2013 · Dr. Warrington Avery, Writer, Director, Producer
movieThe Only Good Indian
2009 · Director
Bunker Hill
movieBunker Hill
2008 · Director, Writer
movieC.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
2005 · Director, Writer
The Search for Inflata-boy
movieThe Search for Inflata-boy
2003 · Expert
Ninth Street
movieNinth Street
1999 · Huddie, Director, Writer, Producer
Arthur Ashe
movieArthur Ashe
— · Screenplay
The Bard
movieThe Bard
— · Director, Writer