Director

Kemp Powers

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 2451598

IMDb ID: nm5358492

Known for: Directing

Born: October 30, 1973

Age: 52

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 2023

Years active: 71

Average TMDB rating: 7.5

Wikidata: Q79360684

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Biography

Kemp Powers is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). His screenplay for One Night in Miami... earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards, while his work on Soul made him the first African-American to co-direct a Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar feature. Powers was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kemp Powers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.