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Kevin Willmott

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1959-08-31
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.

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Known For 4 titles
Hollywood Black (2024) subtitle poster
Hollywood Black
2024 TV
as Self
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Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021) subtitle poster
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
2021 Movie
as Self
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Chasing Chasing Amy (2023) subtitle poster
Chasing Chasing Amy
2023 Movie
as Self
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Destination: Planet Negro! (2013) subtitle poster
Destination: Planet Negro!
2013 Movie
as Dr. Warrington Avery
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