Kevin Willmott
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 31, 1959, Junction City, Kansas, USA
- Movies
- 19
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.
Wilmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2026 | One Eye Open | Detective Fowler |
| 2023 | Chasing Chasing Amy | Self |
| 2021 | Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking | Self |
| 2014 | Jayhawkers | Dowdall Davis |
| 2013 | Destination: Planet Negro! | Dr. Warrington Avery |
| 2003 | The Search for Inflata-boy | Expert |
| 1999 | Ninth Street | Huddie |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2022 | No Place Like Home | Director |
| 2020 | The 24th | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Writer |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Writer |
| 2018 | William Allen White: What's the Matter with Kansas | Director, Writer |
| 2015 | Chi-Raq | Writer |
| 2014 | Jayhawkers | Writer, Director |
| 2013 | Destination: Planet Negro! | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2009 | The Only Good Indian | Director |
| 2008 | Bunker Hill | Writer, Director |
| 2005 | C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America | Director, Writer |
| 1999 | Ninth Street | Director, Producer, Writer |
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