Kevin Willmott

Personal Info

Known ForWriting
Born1959-08-31
BirthplaceJunction City, Kansas, USA

Kevin Willmott

Writing

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 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.

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Filmography

Acting (7)

7.6
2014
Jayhawkersas Dowdall Davis
2013
Destination: Planet Negro!as Dr. Warrington Avery
4.7
1999
Ninth Streetas Huddie
7.5
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One Eye Openas Detective Fowler

Production & Directing (26)

2022
1.0
2020
The 24thDirector
6.1
2020
The 24thWriter
6.1
2020
The 24thProducer
6.1
2020
6.4
2018
7.5
2015
Chi-RaqExecutive Producer
5.7
2015
Chi-RaqWriter
5.7
2014
JayhawkersDirector
2014
3.5
2008
Bunker HillDirector
2008
1999
Ninth StreetDirector
7.5
1999
7.5
1999
Ninth StreetProducer
7.5
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Arthur AsheScreenplay
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The BardDirector
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The BardWriter