
Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Born
August 31, 1959 (age 67)
Place of Birth
Junction City, Kansas, USA
Kevin Willmott
Biography
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

TV
Hollywood Black
Self
2024

Film
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking
Self
2021

Film
Chasing Chasing Amy
Self
2023

Film
Destination: Planet Negro!
Dr. Warrington Avery
2013

Film
One Eye Open
Detective Fowler
Film
Ninth Street
Huddie
1999

Film
Jayhawkers
Dowdall Davis
2014
Film
The Search for Inflata-boy
Expert
2003
Filmography
2024TVHollywood Blackas Self2023FilmChasing Chasing Amyas Self2021FilmOscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmakingas Self2014FilmJayhawkersas Dowdall Davis2013FilmDestination: Planet Negro!as Dr. Warrington Avery2003FilmThe Search for Inflata-boyas Expert1999FilmNinth Streetas Huddie—FilmOne Eye Openas Detective Fowler