Kevin Willmott

Birthday:

08/31/1959

Place of birth:

Junction City, Kansas, USA:

Biography:

Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an American film director and screenwriter, and professor of film at the University of Kansas. 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.



Credits

No Place Like Home (2022)
Director
The 24th (2020)
Director
The 24th (2020)
Writer
The 24th (2020)
Producer
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Writer
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Writer
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas (2018)
Director
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas (2018)
Writer
Chi-Raq (2015)
Writer
Chi-Raq (2015)
Executive Producer
Jayhawkers (2014)
Director
Jayhawkers (2014)
Writer
Destination: Planet Negro! (2013)
Writer
Destination: Planet Negro! (2013)
Director
Destination: Planet Negro! (2013)
Producer
The Only Good Indian (2009)
Director
Bunker Hill (2008)
Director
Bunker Hill (2008)
Writer
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)
Director
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)
Writer
Ninth Street (1999)
Director
Ninth Street (1999)
Writer
Ninth Street (1999)
Producer
Untitled Arthur Ashe Biopic ()
Screenplay