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American film director, screenwriter, and academic
Kevin Willmott
(born August 31, 1959)
[1]
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
.
[2]
Biography
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Willmott grew up in
Junction City, Kansas
, and received a BA in Drama from
Marymount College
. He received a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from
New York University
.
[3]
He has worked as a screenwriter and film director, known for work related to African-American history and contemporary issues. In 2017, Willmott taught classes in a bulletproof vest in protest of the ability of students and staff to carry concealed weapons on the campus.
[2]
He won the Best Director award at the
American Indian Film Festival
for
The Only Good Indian
.
[4]
Willmott's next film,
Jayhawkers
, received funding through
Kickstarter
, a
crowdsourcing
website.
[5]
In 2019, Willmott won an Oscar for
Best Adapted Screenplay
for the film
BlacKkKlansman
.
[6]
[7]
Personal life
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Willmott is
Catholic
, and has cited Fr
Dan Berrigan
,
SJ
as an influence in his life and work.
[8]
Filmography
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Crew
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Film
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Television
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Year
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Title
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Crew position
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2000
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The '70s
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Writer
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2005
|
High Tech Lincoln
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Producer
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Acting
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Year
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Title
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Role
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1999
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Ninth Street
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Huddie
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2003
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The Fascist of X-Mart
|
Narrator
|
The Search for Inflata-boy
|
Expert
|
2004
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C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
|
Extra
|
2009
|
Next Caller
|
God (voice)
|
2010
|
AIR: The Musical
|
The Detective
|
2013
|
Destination Planet Negro
|
Dr. Warrington Avery
|
Unit 12
|
Bill Swaan
|
2014
|
Jayhawkers
|
Dowdall Davis
|
2015
|
Lena Laine
|
Ryan
|
2016
|
From Ashes to Immortality
|
Dr. Frank Ryan
|
2017
|
The Profit
|
Doctor
|
2019
|
The Computer Lab
|
The Futurist (1 episode)
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2021
|
Rainbow Boulevard
|
The Narrator (voice)
|
The Funny Guy
|
Kevin Weston
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References
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- ^
"Archived copy"
. Archived from
the original
on December 25, 2019
. Retrieved
March 6,
2009
.
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a
b
Dinsdale, Ryan (June 9, 2020).
"Oscar winner, KU professor Kevin Willmott shares his love of activism, Kansas and teaching"
.
The University Daily Kansan
. Retrieved
September 26,
2021
.
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[1]
Archived
September 6, 2006, at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
[2]
Archived
July 28, 2010, at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
"
"Jayhawkers" ? Feature Film by Kevin Willmott"
.
Kickstarter.com
. Retrieved
December 26,
2015
.
- ^
Bierman, Courtney & Josh McQuade (February 24, 2019).
"KU's Kevin Willmott takes home Oscar for work on 'BlacKkKlansman'
"
.
The University Daily Kansan
. Retrieved
September 26,
2021
.
- ^
"After Oscar win, KU's Kevin Willmott talks Trump tweet, his next film with Spike Lee"
.
The Kansas City Star
.
- ^
Loeb, Jeff; Willmott, Kevin (2001).
"A Conversation with Kevin Willmott"
.
African American Review
.
35
(2): 249?262.
doi
:
10.2307/2903256
.
ISSN
1062-4783
.
JSTOR
2903256
.
External links
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Awards for Kevin Willmott
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1928?1950
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- Benjamin Glazer
(1928)
- Hanns Kraly
(1929)
- Frances Marion
(1930)
- Howard Estabrook
(1931)
- Edwin J. Burke
(1932)
- Victor Heerman
and
Sarah Y. Mason
(1933)
- Robert Riskin
(1934)
- Dudley Nichols
(1935)
- Pierre Collings
and
Sheridan Gibney
(1936)
- Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine
(1937)
- Ian Dalrymple
,
Cecil Arthur Lewis
,
W. P. Lipscomb
, and
George Bernard Shaw
(1938)
- Sidney Howard
(1939)
- Donald Ogden Stewart
(1940)
- Sidney Buchman
and
Seton I. Miller
(1941)
- George Froeschel
,
James Hilton
,
Claudine West
, and
Arthur Wimperis
(1942)
- Philip G. Epstein
,
Julius J. Epstein
, and
Howard Koch
(1943)
- Frank Butler
and
Frank Cavett
(1944)
- Charles Brackett
and
Billy Wilder
(1945)
- Robert Sherwood
(1946)
- George Seaton
(1947)
- John Huston
(1948)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(1949)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(1950)
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1951?1975
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1976?2000
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2001?present
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Screenplay
2004?2009
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Original Screenplay
2010?present
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Adapted Screenplay
2010?present
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International
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National
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Other
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