Roger Ross Williams
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.
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Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
16 September 1962
Place of Birth
Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
Роджер Росс Уильямс
MEDIA
FILMOGRAPHY
Blackface
2015-11-25Actor
One Story Up
2020-10-15Actor, Director, Executive Producer
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02Actor
Made in Hollywood
2005-09-30Actor
Civil: Ben Crump
2022-06-17Producer
God Loves Uganda
2013-10-11Writer, Director, Producer
Stamped from the Beginning
2023-11-10Producer, Director
Discovered at Sundance
1997-09-08Director, Producer
Time
2001-07-05Director, Producer
Secret Son
2002-09-07Producer, Director
Challenge America With Erin Brockovich
2001-09-15Director
Moroccan Style
2004-09-01Producer, Writer, Director
Tutu: The Essence of Being Human
2014-09-05Director, Producer
How to Build a Library
2025-01-26Executive Producer
First Off The Tee
2003-09-08Producer, Writer, Director
Music by Prudence
2010-04-01Producer, Director
Reagan: A Life In Pictures
2000-09-05Writer, Director, Producer
Amazing Families
2006-09-07Director, Producer, Writer
Alone No Love
2007-12-31Producer
Boys Will Be Girls
2003-03-03Director
The Lives They Lived
2003-05-01Producer, Writer, Director
Power, Privilege & Justice
2003-07-05Producer, Director, Writer
Magic Ring
2022-10-12Executive Producer
Sex, Drugs and Consequences
1996-09-07Producer
Through Sunless Ways
2023-11-20Executive Producer
People Yearbook '95
1995-09-08Producer
The Battle for Laikipia
2024-10-04Executive Producer
Blackface
2015-12-01Director
Master of Light
2022-03-12Producer
Life, Animated
2016-07-01Director, Producer
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
2023-02-21Director, Producer
Stone Mountain
2024-06-13Executive Producer
New York Underground
2003-10-05Writer, Director, Producer
Jaiquan's Sketch
2019-05-01Director
Ranger
2021-10-01Producer
Gospel of Intolerance
2015-05-01Director
TLC Forever
2023-06-03Executive Producer's Assistant
The Rachel Divide
2018-04-23Executive Producer
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
2025-01-26Executive Producer
American Jail
2018-07-01Producer, Director, Screenplay
Take Back the Harbor
2018-11-11Director
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
2016-10-01Director
The Apollo
2019-04-24Writer, Director, Co-Producer
After Maria
2019-04-28Executive Producer
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion
2019-05-02Executive Producer
Traveling While Black
2019-01-25Director
Cassandro
2023-09-14Screenplay, Director
Between the World and Me
2020-11-21Executive Producer
The Empire of Ebony
Producer
Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
2024-01-21Executive Producer
Strange Arrivals
Director, Executive Producer
The Innocence Files
2020-04-15Executive Producer, Director, Creator
The 1619 Project
2023-01-26Executive Producer, Director
Storyville
1997-11-15Director
Sheila Bridges: Designer Living
2002-01-01Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
Independent Lens
1999-08-09Director
Undercover Boss
2010-02-07Director
Dogs
2018-11-16Director
The New Yorker Presents
2016-02-16Director
The Super Models
2023-09-19Executive Producer, Director
Savior Complex
2023-09-26Executive Producer
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
2021-05-26Executive Producer, Director
Life 360
2002-09-03Producer
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