Actor
Kevin Willmott
August 31, 1959 · Junction City, Kansas, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Trai Byers
3 titles together
The 24th, Destination: Planet Negro!, Jayhawkers
Laura Kirk
3 titles together
The Only Good Indian, William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas, Bunker Hill
Jasper Pääkkönen
2 titles together
BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods
Paul Walter Hauser
2 titles together
BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
2 titles together
BlacKkKlansman, Da 5 Bloods
Tosin Morohunfola
2 titles together
The 24th, Destination: Planet Negro!
Full filmography · 12
No Place Like Home
Director
2022
The 24th
Director and Writer
2020
Da 5 Bloods
Writer
20206.4
BlacKkKlansman
Writer
20187.5
William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas
Director and Writer
2018
Chi-Raq
Writer
20155.7
Jayhawkers
as Dowdall Davis and Writer and Director
2014
Destination: Planet Negro!
as Dr. Warrington Avery and Director and Writer
2013
The Only Good Indian
Director
2009
Bunker Hill
Writer and Director
2008
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Director and Writer
20055.8The Search for Inflata-boy
as Expert
2003