Kevin Willmott

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-08-31 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Junction City, Kansas, USA

Kevin Willmott

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 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 B...

Production

2020

Da 5 Bloods

as Writer

2015

Chi-Raq

as Executive Producer

2018

1999

Ninth Street

as Director

2014

Jayhawkers

as Writer

2008

Bunker Hill

as Writer

2015

Chi-Raq

as Writer

2009

1999

Ninth Street

as Producer

2008

Bunker Hill

as Director

2014

Jayhawkers

as Director

1999

Ninth Street

as Writer

2022

2020

The 24th

as Director

2020

The 24th

as Writer

2020

The 24th

as Producer

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