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Kevin Willmott

Known for writing · Born 31 August 1959 · 67 · Junction City, Kansas, USA

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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.

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Known for

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Da 5 Bloods

2020

Chi-Raq

2015

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

2005

The 24th

2020

Destination: Planet Negro!

2013

No Place Like Home

2022

The Only Good Indian

2009

Ninth Street

Ninth Street

1999

William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas

2018

Jayhawkers

2014

Bunker Hill

2008

Acting (8)

2024Hollywood BlackSelf · 4 episodesSeries
2023Chasing Chasing AmySelfFilm
2021Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black FilmmakingSelfFilm
2014JayhawkersDowdall DavisFilm
2013Destination: Planet Negro!Dr. Warrington AveryFilm
2003The Search for Inflata-boyExpertFilm
1999Ninth StreetHuddieFilm
—One Eye OpenDetective FowlerFilm

Directing (8)

2022No Place Like HomeDirectorFilm
2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with KansasDirector, WriterFilm
2014JayhawkersDirector, WriterFilm
2009The Only Good IndianDirectorFilm
2008Bunker HillDirector, WriterFilm
2005C.S.A.: The Confederate States of AmericaDirector, WriterFilm
1999Ninth StreetDirector, Writer, ProducerFilm
—The BardDirector, WriterFilm

Production (1)

2015Chi-RaqExecutive Producer, WriterFilm

Writing (5)

2020Da 5 BloodsWriterFilm
2020The 24thWriter, Director, ProducerFilm
2018BlacKkKlansmanWriterFilm
2013Destination: Planet Negro!Writer, Director, ProducerFilm
—Arthur AsheScreenplayFilm