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Kevin Willmott
Born August 31, 1959 in Junction City, Kansas, USA12 films
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.
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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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First watchBlacKkKlansman20187.5Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.View filmEssential films
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12 films- TBAArthur AsheScreenplay
- TBAThe BardWriter
- 2020The 24thWriter
- 2020Da 5 BloodsWriter
- 2018BlacKkKlansmanWriter
- 2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with KansasWriter
- 2015Chi-RaqWriter
- 2014JayhawkersWriter
- 2013Destination: Planet Negro!Writer
- 2008Bunker HillWriter
- 2005C.S.A.: The Confederate States of AmericaWriter
- 1999Ninth StreetWriter