Kevin Willmott Biography
Willmott grew up in Junction City, Kansas , and received a BA in Drama from Marymount College . He received a M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University .[ 2] [ 3]
He won the Best Director award at the American Indian Film Festival for The Only Good Indian [ 4] Jayhawkers Kickstarter , a crowdsourcing website.[ 5]
In 2019, Willmott won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film BlacKkKlansman [ 6] [ 7] Da 5 Bloods
Wilmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas .[ 3]
Filmography
Crew
Television
Year
Title
Crew position
2000
The '70s Writer
2005
High Tech Lincoln Producer
Acting
Year
Title
Role
1999 Ninth Street Huddie
2003 The Fascist of X-Mart Narrator
The Search for Inflata-boy Expert
2004 C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America Extra
2009 Next Caller God (voice)
2010 AIR: The Musical The Detective
2013 Destination Planet Negro Dr. Warrington Avery
Unit 12 Bill Swaan
2014 Jayhawkers Dowdall Davis
2015 Lena Laine Ryan
2016 From Ashes to Immortality Dr. Frank Ryan
2017 The Profit Doctor
2019 The Computer Lab The Futurist (1 episode)
2021 Rainbow Boulevard The Narrator (voice)
The Funny Guy Kevin Weston
References
↑ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on December 25, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2009 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )↑ Archived September 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine 1 2 Dinsdale, Ryan (June 9, 2020). "Oscar winner, KU professor Kevin Willmott shares his love of activism, Kansas and teaching" . The University Daily Kansan . Retrieved September 26, 2021 . ↑ Archived July 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine ↑ " . Kickstarter.com . Retrieved December 26, 2015 .↑ Bierman, Courtney & Josh McQuade (February 24, 2019). "KU's Kevin Willmott takes home Oscar for work on 'BlacKkKlansman' . The University Daily Kansan . Retrieved September 26, 2021 . ↑ "After Oscar win, KU's Kevin Willmott talks Trump tweet, his next film with Spike Lee" . The Kansas City Star .↑ Loeb, Jeff; Willmott, Kevin (2001). "A Conversation with Kevin Willmott" African American Review . 35 (2): 249– 262. doi :10.2307/2903256 . ISSN 1062-4783 . JSTOR 2903256 .
External links
Awards for Kevin Willmott
Benjamin Glazer (1928)Hanns Kräly (1929)Frances Marion (1930)Howard Estabrook (1931)Edwin J. Burke (1932)Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933)Robert Riskin (1934)Dudley Nichols (1935)Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936)Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple , Cecil Arthur Lewis , W. P. Lipscomb , and George Bernard Shaw (1938)Sidney Howard (1939)Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (1941)George Froeschel , James Hilton , Claudine West , and Arthur Wimperis (1942)Philip G. Epstein , Julius J. Epstein , and Howard Koch (1943)Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (1944)Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (1945)Robert Sherwood (1946)George Seaton (1947)John Huston (1948)Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Harry Brown and Michael Wilson (1951)Charles Schnee (1952)Daniel Taradash (1953)George Seaton (1954)Paddy Chayefsky (1955)John Farrow , S. J. Perelman , and James Poe (1956)Pierre Boulle , Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (1957)Alan Jay Lerner (1958)Neil Paterson (1959)Richard Brooks (1960)Abby Mann (1961)Horton Foote (1962)John Osborne (1963)Edward Anhalt (1964)Robert Bolt (1965)Robert Bolt (1966)Stirling Silliphant (1967)James Goldman (1968)Waldo Salt (1969)Ring Lardner Jr. (1970)Ernest Tidyman (1971)Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972)William Peter Blatty (1973)Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1974)Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)William Goldman (1976)Alvin Sargent (1977)Oliver Stone (1978)Robert Benton (1979)Alvin Sargent (1980)Ernest Thompson (1981)Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982)James L. Brooks (1983)Peter Shaffer (1984)Kurt Luedtke (1985)Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986)Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe (1987)Christopher Hampton (1988)Alfred Uhry (1989)Michael Blake (1990)Ted Tally (1991)Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992)Steven Zaillian (1993)Eric Roth (1994)Emma Thompson (1995)Billy Bob Thornton (1996)Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)Bill Condon (1998)John Irving (1999)Stephen Gaghan (2000) Akiva Goldsman (2001)Ronald Harwood (2002)Philippa Boyens , Peter Jackson , and Fran Walsh (2003)Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)William Monahan (2006)Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)Simon Beaufoy (2008)Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009)Aaron Sorkin (2010)Alexander Payne , Jim Rash , and Nat Faxon (2011)Chris Terrio (2012)John Ridley (2013)Graham Moore (2014)Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016)James Ivory (2017)Charlie Wachtel , David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott , and Spike Lee (2018)Taika Waititi (2019)Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)Sian Heder (2021)Sarah Polley (2022)Cord Jefferson (2023)Peter Straughan (2024)Paul Thomas Anderson (2025)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983)Bruce Robinson (1984)Richard Condon and Janet Roach (1985)Kurt Luedtke (1986)Claude Berri and Gérard Brach (1987)Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman (1988)Christopher Hampton (1989)Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (1990)Dick Clement , Roddy Doyle , and Ian La Frenais (1991)Michael Tolkin (1992)Steven Zaillian (1993)Paul Attanasio (1994)John Hodge (1995)Anthony Minghella (1996)Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce (1997)Elaine May (1998)Neil Jordan (1999)Stephen Gaghan (2000)Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio , Roger S. H. Schulman , and Joe Stillman (2001)Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)Philippa Boyens , Peter Jackson , and Fran Walsh (2003)Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (2006)Ronald Harwood (2007)Simon Beaufoy (2008)Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)Aaron Sorkin (2010)Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011)David O. Russell (2012)Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (2013)Anthony McCarten (2014)Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015)Luke Davies (2016)James Ivory (2017)Spike Lee , David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott (2018)Taika Waititi (2019)Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)Sian Heder (2021)Edward Berger , Lesley Paterson , and Ian Stokell (2022)Cord Jefferson (2023)Peter Straughan (2024)Paul Thomas Anderson (2025)
International National Other
