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Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959)[1] is an Academy Award Winning American film director and screenwriter, and professor of film at the University of Kansas.[2] 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.

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Kevin Willmott
Born	(1959-08-31) August 31, 1959 (age 63) Junction City, Kansas, U.S.
Alma mater	Marymount College (B.A.) New York University (MFA)
Occupation	Film director and writer college film professor
Employer	University of Kansas
Awards	Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Biography

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, Wilmott won an Oscar for his work on BlacKkKlansman.[6] [7]

Filmography

Crew

Film

Year	Title	Crew position
1999	Ninth Street	Director, writer, producer
2004	C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America	Director and writer
2008	Bunker Hill	Director, writer, and producer
	The Only Good Indian	Director and producer
2013	Destination: Planet Negro	Director and writer
	Jayhawkers	Director, writer, and producer
2015	Chi-Raq	Writer
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Writer
2020	Da 5 Bloods	Writer
	The 24th	Director and co-writer

Television

Year	Title	Crew position
2000	The '70s	Writer
2005	High Tech Lincoln	Producer

Acting

Year	Title	Role
1999	Ninth Street	Huddie
2003	The Fascist of X-Mart	Narrator
	The Search for Inflata-boy	Expert
2004	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)
2021	Rainbow Boulevard	The Narrator (voice)
	The Funny Guy	Kevin Weston

References

External links

• Kevin Willmott at IMDb
• On Story – A Conversation with Kevin Willmott

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