Kevin Willmott

Known for WritingBorn 1959-08-31 (age 66)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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Willmott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Hollywood Black

The Search for Inflata-boy

Chasing Chasing Amy

BlacKkKlansman

Ninth Street

Da 5 Bloods

Destination: Planet Negro!

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

Chi-Raq

The 24th

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

The Only Good Indian

No Place Like Home

William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas

Jayhawkers

Bunker Hill

Arthur Ashe

The Bard