Writing
Kevin Willmott
EN, IT cinema · 18 credits
Born
31 August 1959 (age 67)
Birthplace
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 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.
Known for
Filmography
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Screenplay
The Bard
The Bard
Director, Writer
One Eye Open
as Detective Fowler
No Place Like Home
Director
Da 5 Bloods
Writer
The 24th
Director, Writer, Producer
Chi-Raq
Executive Producer, Writer
Jayhawkers
as Dowdall Davis, Director, Writer
Destination: Planet Negro!
as Dr. Warrington Avery, Writer, Director, Producer
The Only Good Indian
Director
Bunker Hill
Director, Writer
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Director, Writer
Ninth Street
1999
Ninth Street
as Huddie, Director, Writer, Producer