Kevin Willmott
Writing
- Born
- August 31, 1959 (age 67) · Junction City, Kansas, USA
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.
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Wilmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas.
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Known for
BlacKkKlansman
August 9, 2018
Da 5 Bloods
June 12, 2020
Chi-Raq
December 4, 2015
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
June 24, 2005
The 24th
August 21, 2020
Destination: Planet Negro!
February 16, 2013
The Only Good Indian
December 1, 2009
No Place Like Home
October 2, 2022
Jayhawkers
March 7, 2014
Bunker Hill
October 17, 2008
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
April 25, 2018
Behind the camera14
- 2022No Place Like Home Director
- 2020The 24th Director, Writer, Producer
- 2020Da 5 Bloods Writer
- 2018BlacKkKlansman Writer
- 2018William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas Director, Writer
- 2015Chi-Raq Executive Producer, Writer
- 2014Jayhawkers Writer, Director
- 2013Destination: Planet Negro! Director, Writer, Producer
- 2009The Only Good Indian Director
- 2008Bunker Hill