Kevin Willmott
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 31, 1959
- Birthplace
- Junction City, Kansas, USA
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 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.
Filmography
- The Bard
The Bard TBA
Director, Writer
- Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe TBA
Screenplay
One Eye Open 2026
as Detective Fowler
Chasing Chasing Amy 2023
as Self
No Place Like Home 2022
Director
Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking 2021
as Self
The 24th 2020
Director, Writer, Producer
Da 5 Bloods 2020
Writer
BlacKkKlansman 2018
Writer
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas 2018
Director, Writer
Chi-Raq 2015
Executive Producer, Writer
Jayhawkers 2014
as Dowdall Davis, Director, Writer
Destination: Planet Negro! 2013
as Dr. Warrington Avery, Writer, Director, Producer
The Only Good Indian 2009
Director
Bunker Hill 2008
Director, Writer
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America 2005
Director, Writer
- The Search for Inflata-boy
The Search for Inflata-boy 2003
as Expert
- Ninth Street
Ninth Street 1999
as Huddie, Director, Writer, Producer
Credits from TMDB.