Ava DuVernay

Directing·Aug 24, 1972·Long Beach, California, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
114th2026 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Becoming King2024 · Self	Self
Origin2023 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
Only in Theaters2022 · Self	Self
Adele One Night Only2021 · Self	Self
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks2021 · Self	Self
Regard Noir2021 · Self	Self
The White Tiger2021 · Producer	Producer
Aggie2020 · Self	Self
Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now2019 · Self	Self
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché2018 · Self	Self
A Wrinkle in Time2018 · Director	Director
Half the Picture2018 · Self	Self
Family Feud2018 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People2017 · Writer, Producer, Director	Writer, Producer, Director
Girls Trip2017 · Ava DuVernay	Ava DuVernay
TThe Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits2017 · Self	Self
13th: A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey & Ava DuVernay2017 · Herself	Herself
13th2016 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Selma2014 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Life Itself2014 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
SSay Yes2013 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
TThe Door2013 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
Venus VS.2013 · Director	Director
Middle of Nowhere2012 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
I Will Follow2010 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop2010 · Director	Director
CCompton in C Minor2009 · Director	Director
This Is the Life2008 · Self, Director, Producer	Self, Director, Producer
Saturday Night Life2006 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
HHeist of BeninDirector	Director