# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kemp-powers
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:55:56.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kemp-powers"
name: "Kemp Powers"
slug: "kemp-powers"
description: "Kemp Powers is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for his play One Night in Miami and the 2020 film adaptation of the same name, as well as for co-directing the animated films Soul (2020) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023). His screenplay for One Night in Miami... earned him a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards, while his work on Soul made him the first African-American to co-direct a Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar feature. Powers was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards."
tagline: "American playwright and screenwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kemp_Powers_2023_03.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.31
  momentum:             3.085975333381044
  historical:           8.819985333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5358492/"
    handle:    "nm5358492"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/92d1c315-1e00-4af5-8d4b-be58a1e4c6ef"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikon_Kemp"
    title: "Ikon Kemp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ケンプ・パワーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemp_Powers"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79360684"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2451598"
    title: "Kemp Powers"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump