# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-ross-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:48:06.854Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-ross-williams"
name: "Roger Ross Williams"
slug: "roger-ross-williams"
description: "Roger Ross Williams 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."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Ross_Williams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1973-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.825452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2141317/"
    handle:    "nm2141317"
sources:
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    title: "راجر راس ولیمز"
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    title: "روجر وليامز (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams"
    title: "Roger Ross Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams"
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    title: "راجر راس ویلیامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams"
    title: "Roger Ross Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams"
    title: "Roger Ross Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ross_Williams"
    title: "Roger Ross Williams"
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    title: "Roger Ross Williams"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1617323"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump