Ava DuVernay

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 US 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 AfricanAmerican 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 Awardnominated Netflix documentary 13th 2016 and the Disney fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time 2018 the latter making her the first AfricanAmerican woman to direct a film with a 100 million budget In 2023 she directed the biographical film Origin based on Isabel Wilkersons book Caste The Origins of Our Discontents 2020 DuVernays 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia