Director

Kevin Willmott

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Directed movies: 6Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 91585

IMDb ID: nm0932551

Known for: Writing

Born: August 31, 1959

Age: 66

Place of birth: Junction City, Kansas, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2005 - 2023

Years active: 19

Average TMDB rating: 6.33

Wikidata: Q6397775

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Biography

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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