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Barry Jenkins is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine, he received an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for Medicine for Melancholy (2008).
Born
Monday, 19 November 1979
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Light & Magic | Self - Director, The Underground Railroad / Self - Academy Award Winning Filmmaker | 2022 |
Desus & Mero | Self | 2019 |
They've Gotta Have Us | Self - Director, Producer, and Screenwriter | 2018 |
The Oscars | Self - Winner & Nominee | 2017 |
The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2017 | Self - Nominee | 2017 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015 |
Celebrity Conversations | Self | 2015 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse | Star King Zorzdon Pxxa | 2013 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Light & Magic | Self - Director, The Underground Railroad / Self - Academy Award Winning Filmmaker | 2022 |
Desus & Mero | Self | 2019 |
They've Gotta Have Us | Self - Director, Producer, and Screenwriter | 2018 |
The Oscars | Self - Winner & Nominee | 2017 |
The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2017 | Self - Nominee | 2017 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 2015 |
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter | Self | 2015 |
Celebrity Conversations | Self | 2015 |
Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse | Star King Zorzdon Pxxa | 2013 |
CBS This Morning | Self | 2012 |
These Amazing Shadows | Self | 2011 |
Popcorn with Peter Travers | Self - Director 'Moonlight' | 2009 |
Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
Little Brown Boy | Basketball player | 2003 |
The Daily Show | Self | 1996 |
Entertainment Tonight | Himself (archive footage) | 1981 |
Film '72 | Self - Interviewee | 1971 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Mufasa: The Lion King | 2024 |
The Underground Railroad | 2021 |
If Beale Street Could Talk | 2018 |
Medicine for Melancholy | 2017 |
Dear White People | 2017 |
Moonlight | 2016 |
The Knick | 2014 |
Futurestates | 2010 |
A Young Couple | 2009 |
Little Brown Boy | 2003 |
My Josephine | 2003 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Fire Inside | 2024 |
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt | 2023 |
Aftersun | 2022 |
The Underground Railroad | 2021 |
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | 2020 |
The Last Black Man in San Francisco | 2019 |
If Beale Street Could Talk | 2018 |
True Detective | 2014 |
30 for 30 Shorts | 2012 |
Futurestates | 2010 |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2021 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie | Nominated |
2021 | Emmy | Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series | Nominated |
2019 | Golden Globe | Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | Nominated |
2019 | Oscar | Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated |
2017 | Golden Globe | Best Director - Motion Picture | Nominated |
2017 | Golden Globe | Best Screenplay - Motion Picture | Nominated |
2017 | Oscar | Best Achievement in Directing | Nominated |
2017 | Oscar | Best Adapted Screenplay | Won |