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Roger Ross Williams

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
4

Gender
Male

Birthday
September 16, 1962 (63 years old)

Place of Birth
Easton, Pennsylvania, USA

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

Production

2025How to Build a Library...Executive Producer
2025Move Ya Body: The Birth of House...Executive Producer
2024The Battle for Laikipia...Executive Producer
2024Stone Mountain...Executive Producer
2024Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World...Executive Producer
2023Through Sunless Ways...Executive Producer
2023Stamped from the Beginning...Producer
2023Stamped from the Beginning...Executive Producer
2023Savior Complex...Executive Producer
2023The Super Models...Executive Producer
2023TLC Forever...Executive Producer's Assistant
2023Love to Love You, Donna Summer...Producer
2023The 1619 Project...Executive Producer
2022Magic Ring...Executive Producer
2022Civil: Ben Crump...Producer
2022Master of Light...Producer
2021Ranger...Producer
2021High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America...Executive Producer
2020Between the World and Me...Executive Producer
2020One Story Up...Executive Producer
2020The Innocence Files...Executive Producer
2019The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion...Executive Producer
2019After Maria...Executive Producer
2019The Apollo...Co-Producer
2018American Jail...Producer
2018The Rachel Divide...Executive Producer
2016Life, Animated...Producer
2014Tutu: The Essence of Being Human...Producer
2013God Loves Uganda...Producer
2010Music by Prudence...Producer
2007Alone No Love...Producer
2006Amazing Families...Producer
2004Moroccan Style...Producer
2003New York Underground...Producer
2003First Off The Tee...Producer
2003Power, Privilege & Justice...Producer
2003The Lives They Lived...Producer
2002Secret Son...Producer
2002Life 360...Producer
2002Sheila Bridges: Designer Living...Producer
2001Time...Producer
2000Reagan: A Life In Pictures...Producer
1997Discovered at Sundance...Producer
1996Sex, Drugs and Consequences...Producer
1995People Yearbook '95...Producer
The Empire of Ebony...Producer
Strange Arrivals...Executive Producer

Directing

2023Stamped from the Beginning...Director
2023The Super Models...Director
2023Cassandro...Director
2023Love to Love You, Donna Summer...Director
2023The 1619 Project...Director
2021High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America...Director
2020One Story Up...Director
2020The Innocence Files...Director
2019Jaiquan's Sketch...Director
2019The Apollo...Director
2019Traveling While Black...Director
2018Dogs...Director
2018Take Back the Harbor...Director
2018American Jail...Director
2016Land of the Lost Sidekicks...Director
2016Life, Animated...Director
2016The New Yorker Presents...Director
2015Blackface...Director
2015Gospel of Intolerance...Director
2014Tutu: The Essence of Being Human...Director
2013God Loves Uganda...Director
2010Music by Prudence...Director
2010Undercover Boss...Director
2006Amazing Families...Director
2004Moroccan Style...Director
2003New York Underground...Director
2003First Off The Tee...Director
2003Power, Privilege & Justice...Director
2003The Lives They Lived...Director
2003Boys Will Be Girls...Director
2002Secret Son...Director
2002Sheila Bridges: Designer Living...Director
2001Challenge America With Erin Brockovich...Director
2001Time...Director
2000Reagan: A Life In Pictures...Director
1999Independent Lens...Director
1997Storyville...Director
1997Discovered at Sundance...Director
Strange Arrivals...Director

Creator

2023The Super Models...Creator
2020The Innocence Files...Creator
2002Sheila Bridges: Designer Living...Creator

Writing

2023Cassandro...Screenplay
2019The Apollo...Writer
2018American Jail...Screenplay
2013God Loves Uganda...Writer
2006Amazing Families...Writer
2004Moroccan Style...Writer
2003New York Underground...Writer
2003First Off The Tee...Writer
2003Power, Privilege & Justice...Writer
2003The Lives They Lived...Writer
2002Sheila Bridges: Designer Living...Writer
2000Reagan: A Life In Pictures...Writer

Acting

2020One Story Upas Host
2015Blackfaceas Self
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporteras Self
2005Made in Hollywoodas Self