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Kevin Willmott

Kevin Willmott

Known For Writing
Birthday Aug 31, 1959 (65)
Birthplace Junction City, Kansas, USA
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 08, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Apr 15, 2024
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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 f ... eature 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kevin Willmott, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

Destination: Planet Negro!

Destination: Planet Negro!

2013

as Dr. Warrington Avery

Ninth Street

Ninth Street

1999

as Huddie

The 24th

The 24th

2020

Writer

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

2020

Writer

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Writer

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

2015

Writer

Jayhawkers

Jayhawkers

2014

Writer

Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill

2008

Writer

Ninth Street

Ninth Street

1999

Writer

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

2022

Director

The 24th

The 24th

2020

Director

Jayhawkers

Jayhawkers

2014

Director

The Only Good Indian

The Only Good Indian

2009

Director

Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill

2008

Director

Ninth Street

Ninth Street

1999

Director

The 24th

The 24th

2020

Producer

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

2015

Executive Producer

Ninth Street

Ninth Street

1999

Producer

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