Roger Ross Williams

Director

Born: September 16, 1962 (63 years old)

Place of birth: Easton, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award (Oscar), with his short film Music by Prudence; this film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Ross Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (22)

• Civil: Ben Crump (2022, ★ 7.4)
• Life, Animated (2016, ★ 7.4)
• Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023, ★ 7.1)
• Between the World and Me (2020, ★ 7.9)
• God Loves Uganda (2013, ★ 6.6)
• Stamped from the Beginning (2023, ★ 6.5)
• Music by Prudence (2010, ★ 6.8)
• The Innocence Files (2020, ★ 7.4)
• Storyville (1997, ★ 7.6)
• Dogs (2018, ★ 7.4)
• Master of Light (2022, ★ 6.4)
• The Rachel Divide (2018, ★ 6.2)
• The Apollo (2019, ★ 6.5)
• Cassandro (2023, ★ 6.6)
• Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World (2024, ★ 7)
• Independent Lens (1999, ★ 6.5)
• The New Yorker Presents (2016, ★ 6.8)
• The Super Models (2023, ★ 6.7)
• Savior Complex (2023, ★ 6.5)
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021, ★ 6.7)
• After Maria (2019, ★ 5.5)
• The 1619 Project (2023, ★ 5.1)