Roger Ross Williams
- Directing
- September 16, 1962 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- How to Build a Library · Executive producer
- Move Ya Body: The Birth of House · Executive producer
- The Battle for Laikipia · Executive producer
- Stone Mountain · Executive producer
- Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World · Executive producer
- Through Sunless Ways · Executive producer
- Stamped from the Beginning · Producer, Director
- Savior Complex · Executive producer
- The Super Models · Executive producer, Director
- Cassandro · Director, Screenplay
- TLC Forever · Executive Producer's Assistant
- Love to Love You, Donna Summer · Director, Producer
- The 1619 Project · Executive producer, Director
- Magic Ring · Executive producer
- Civil: Ben Crump · Producer
- Master of Light · Producer
- Ranger · Producer
- High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America · Executive producer, Director
- Between the World and Me · Executive producer
- One Story Up · Host, Director
- The Innocence Files · Executive producer, Director
- The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion · Executive producer
- Jaiquan's Sketch · Director
- After Maria · Executive producer
- The Apollo · Co-producer, Writer
- Traveling While Black · Director
- Dogs · Director
- Take Back the Harbor · Director
- American Jail · Producer, Director
- The Rachel Divide · Executive producer
- Land of the Lost Sidekicks · Director
- Life, Animated · Director, Producer
- The New Yorker Presents · Director
- Blackface · Director
- Blackface · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Gospel of Intolerance · Director
- Tutu: The Essence of Being Human · Director, Producer
- God Loves Uganda · Director, Writer
- Music by Prudence · Producer, Director
- Undercover Boss · Director
- Alone No Love · Producer
- Amazing Families · Director, Writer
- Made in Hollywood · Self
- Moroccan Style · Director, Writer
- New York Underground · Writer, Director
- First Off The Tee · Director, Producer
- Power, Privilege & Justice · Producer, Writer
- The Lives They Lived · Producer, Writer
- Boys Will Be Girls · Director
- Secret Son · Director, Producer
- Life 360 · Producer
- Sheila Bridges: Designer Living · Director, Producer
- Challenge America With Erin Brockovich · Director
- Time · Producer, Director
- Reagan: A Life In Pictures · Director, Producer
- Independent Lens · Director
- Storyville · Director
- Discovered at Sundance · Director, Producer
- Sex, Drugs and Consequences · Producer
- People Yearbook '95 · Producer
- POV · Executive producer
- The Empire of Ebony · Producer
- Strange Arrivals · Director, Executive producer