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Roger Ross Williams

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.

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Directing

1997

[ ] Discovered at Sundance (Director)

2000

[ ] Reagan: A Life In Pictures (Director)

2001

[ ] Challenge America With Erin Brockovich (Director)
[ ] Time (Director)

2002

[ ] Secret Son (Director)

2003

[ ] Boys Will Be Girls (Director)
[ ] First Off The Tee (Director)
[ ] Power, Privilege & Justice (Director)
[ ] The Lives They Lived (Director)
[ ] New York Underground (Director)

2004

[ ] Moroccan Style (Director)

2006

[ ] Amazing Families (Director)

2010

[ ] Music by Prudence (Director)

2013

[ ] God Loves Uganda (Director)

2014

[ ] Tutu: The Essence of Being Human (Director)

2015

[ ] Blackface (Director)
[ ] Gospel of Intolerance (Director)

2016

[ ] Life, Animated (Director)
[ ] Land of the Lost Sidekicks (Director)

2018

[ ] American Jail (Director)
[ ] Take Back the Harbor (Director)

2019

[ ] Jaiquan's Sketch (Director)
[ ] The Apollo (Director)
[ ] Traveling While Black (Director)

2023

[ ] Love to Love You, Donna Summer (Director)
[ ] Stamped from the Beginning (Director)
[ ] Cassandro (Director)

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[ ] Strange Arrivals (Director)

Production

1995

[ ] People Yearbook '95 (Producer)

1996

[ ] Sex, Drugs and Consequences (Producer)

1997

[ ] Discovered at Sundance (Producer)

2000

[ ] Reagan: A Life In Pictures (Producer)

2001

[ ] Time (Producer)

2002

[ ] Secret Son (Producer)

2003

[ ] Power, Privilege & Justice (Producer)
[ ] The Lives They Lived (Producer)
[ ] First Off The Tee (Producer)
[ ] New York Underground (Producer)

2004

[ ] Moroccan Style (Producer)

2006

[ ] Amazing Families (Producer)

2007

[ ] Alone No Love (Producer)

2010

[ ] Music by Prudence (Producer)

2013

[ ] God Loves Uganda (Producer)

2014

[ ] Tutu: The Essence of Being Human (Producer)

2016

[ ] Life, Animated (Producer)

2018

[ ] The Rachel Divide (Executive Producer)
[ ] American Jail (Producer)

2019

[ ] The Apollo (Co-Producer)
[ ] After Maria (Executive Producer)
[ ] The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion (Executive Producer)

2020

[ ] Between the World and Me (Executive Producer)

2021

[ ] Ranger (Producer)

2022

[ ] Civil: Ben Crump (Producer)
[ ] Magic Ring (Executive Producer)
[ ] Master of Light (Producer)

2023

[ ] Stamped from the Beginning (Producer)
[ ] Through Sunless Ways (Executive Producer)
[ ] Love to Love You, Donna Summer (Producer)
[ ] TLC Forever (Executive Producer's Assistant)

2024

[ ] The Battle for Laikipia (Executive Producer)
[ ] Stone Mountain (Executive Producer)
[ ] Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World (Executive Producer)

2025

[ ] How to Build a Library (Executive Producer)
[ ] Move Ya Body: The Birth of House (Executive Producer)

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[ ] The Empire of Ebony (Producer)
[ ] Strange Arrivals (Executive Producer)

Writing

2000

[ ] Reagan: A Life In Pictures (Writer)

2003

[ ] Power, Privilege & Justice (Writer)
[ ] First Off The Tee (Writer)
[ ] The Lives They Lived (Writer)
[ ] New York Underground (Writer)

2004

[ ] Moroccan Style (Writer)

2006

[ ] Amazing Families (Writer)

2013

[ ] God Loves Uganda (Writer)

2018

[ ] American Jail (Screenplay)

2019

[ ] The Apollo (Writer)

2023

[ ] Cassandro (Screenplay)

Actor

2015

[ ] Blackface (Self)