Ava DuVernay

Known for DirectingBorn 1972-08-24 (age 53)Long Beach, California, USA

Ava Marie DuVernay (/ˌdjuːvərˈneɪ/; born August 24, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directorial debut with I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the film went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her other film credits include the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary 13th (2016) and the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time (2018), the latter making her the first African-American woman to direct a film with a $100 million budget. In 2023, she directed the biographical film Origin based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). DuVernay's television credits include the OWN drama series Queen Sugar (2016) and two Netflix drama limited series: When They See Us (2019), based on the 1989 Central Park jogger case, and Colin in Black & White (2021), based on the teenage years of NFL player Colin Kaepernick. In 2017, DuVernay was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2020, she was elected to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences board of governors as part of the directors branch. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ava DuVernay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

When They See Us

Adele One Night Only

13th

Shine On with Reese

Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now

Queen Sugar

Life Itself

Trailblazer Honors

Cherish the Day

Selma

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

The Red Line

Collateral

The White Tiger

A Black Lady Sketch Show

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

A Concerto Is a Conversation

Girls Trip

CBS News Sunday Morning

Colin in Black and White

Half the Picture

The Kelly Clarkson Show

99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

Finding Your Roots

13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay

Origin

The Daily Show

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

#blackAF

Middle of Nowhere

Naomi

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

This Is the Life

Nine for IX

DMZ

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Desus & Mero

Chelsea

Hollywood Black

A Wrinkle in Time

Dear...

I Will Follow

One Perfect Shot

Tamron Hall

Regard Noir

Say Yes

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