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- While Black filmmakers are more prevalent and celebrated in Hollywood in the 21st century, there’s still a lot of work to be done. 2020 was a banner year for Black ensemble films. “One Night in Miami,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom″ and “Judas and the Black Messiah” stunned critics.
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As awards season gears up, we’re taking a look at the current best Black directors in Hollywood who’ve managed to make history, break records, and define culture with their films.
Feb 1, 2022 · These extraordinary Black directors and Black filmmakers in Hollywood, such as Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and Melvin Van Peebles, have created important and iconic movies.
- Haley Elizabeth Anderson
- Blitz Bazawule
- Radha Blank
- Janicza Bravo
- Stefon Bristol
- Chinonye Chukwu
- JD Dillard
- Rashaad Ernesto Green
- Shaka King
- Julius Onah
Pillars, If There Is A Light (shorts) To find a brand-new voice already so fully formed is rare. While Haley Elizabeth Anderson (above left), a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch program, first generated waves at Tribeca 2019 – Queen Latifah and Dee Rees singled out her short filmIf There Is a Light there – it was at Sundance 2020 that her coming-of-ag...
94% Black Is King (2020) (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images) Before Queen Bey anointed him to direct her visual album Black is King, Ghanaian-born and New York-based hip-hop artist Blitz Bazawule’s spellbinding ghost story The Burial of Kojo caught the eye of in-the-know film fans and critics. Distributed by Ava DuVernay’s Array on Netflix, the imp...
99% The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) Not since Spike Lee’s similarly shot black-and-white first film, She’s Gotta Have It,has a Black filmmaker’s directorial-writing-starring debut astounded audiences as much as Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version. Her sharp, hilarious satire, concerning a once-ascendant Black playwright now shifting gears to...
88% Zola (2020) (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Janicza Bravo’s past credits include episodes of the acclaimed TV shows Atlanta and Dear White People, and her offbeat feature debut, Lemon, but it’s the 2020 Sundance favorite Zolathat’s soon to make her a household name. The film is an adaptation of an infamous – and viral – 148-tweet Twitter ...
93% See You Yesterday (2019) (Photo by Cara Howe / © Netflix / courtesy Everett Collection) When Spike Lee produces your film you better deliver. Stefon Bristol, in his ambitious feature debut See You Yesterday, indeed delivered with an ingenious sci-fi time-travel romp that explores police brutality just as nimbly as it plays with theories of rela...
92% Clemency (2019) (Photo by Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection) Though the prison industrial complex adversely affects Black people, it feels like the bulk of prison films – from Kiss of the Spider Woman to Dead Man Walking – feature white protagonists. With her sophomore film, Clemency, Chinonye Chukwu crafted a ruminative character study of pri...
80% Sleight (2016) (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage) JD Dillard is so well-known among cinephiles and genre fans, it’s odd to call him up-and-coming. His subversive first feature Sleight vividly reimagined the superhero genre through the eyes of a Black street magician. His follow-up Sweetheart, a spine-tingling creature feature set on a deserted i...
93% Premature (2019) (Photo by Araya Diaz/Getty Images) More than a couple films struggled to break through in the early crazy days of the pandemic: Released in February 2020 on Video On Demand, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s swooning slow-burn summer romance Premature was one of them. This patient love story sees Harlem teen Ayanna (Zora Howard) dating t...
96% Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) (Photo by Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images) To evoke the words of Black Panther Fred Hampton, one of the central figures of Shaka King’s upcoming Judas and the Black Messiah: this director is a revolutionary. After bouncing from the acclaimed TBS comedy People of Earth to the equally heralded Hulu sitcom Shrill, he...
91% Luce (2019) (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Often when Black filmmakers release a dud, they struggle to find a second chance. Julius Onah bucked that trend. He first directed the critically derided The Cloverfield Paradox, only to follow-up that disaster with the critically heralded Luce. The thought-provoking latter film interrogates rac...
- Oscar Micheaux. What is Oscar Micheaux known for? Oscar Micheaux was a pioneer for Black filmmaking and is credited for being the first African American to produce a feature-length film in 1919.
- Spike Lee. What is Spike Lee known for? Spike Lee splashed on the film scene with his 1986 movie, She’s Gotta Have it, which only took two weeks to shoot with a budget of $175K.
- Sidney Poitier. What is Sidney Poitier known for? Sidney Poitier is the greatest American movie star, according to Times culture critic Wesley Morris. Sidney Poitier was the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field.
- Melvin Van Peebles. What is Melvin Van Peebles known for? Melvin Van Peebles is best known for his landmark films Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and Watermelon Man.
Feb 1, 2024 · So with all that said, here is a list of 10 Black filmmakers that one should know, all of whom continue to still work steadily in Hollywood — along with the reasons why one should check out...
Feb 28, 2023 · 10 Black Women Filmmakers Who Have Shaped the Cinema Landscape of the 21st Century In the past two decades, a number of contemporary Black women filmmakers have risen up to offer nuanced...
