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Ava DuVernay

American film director · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1972 · age 54

Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY.

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A life in dates

202614thFilm, Director, Writer2025Seen & Heard: The History of Black TelevisionSeries2024Becoming KingFilm2023Off Script with The Hollywood ReporterSeriesOriginFilm, 2023Director, Writer2022International Emmy Founders AwardAwardDMZSeries, 2022Director, Producer2021A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon ParksFilm2020#blackAFSeries, Ava DuVernayA Concerto Is a ConversationFilm, 2020Producer2019VH1 Trailblazer HonorsAwardA Black Lady Sketch ShowSeries, 2019Ava DuVernayOprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us NowFilm, 20192018A Wrinkle in TimeFilm, Director2017Time 100Award201613thFilm, Director, Writer2015“So I came to realize that those dreams I'd been dreaming, what was the problem, what was so off, what was the error. It's cuz the dreams are too small.”In their wordsspeaking at SXSW 2015,

Dorothy Arzner Directors AwardAwardClose Up with The Hollywood ReporterSeries, 20152014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSeriesLife ItselfFilm, 20142013Independent Spirit John Cassavetes AwardAwardSay YesFilm, 2013Director, Writer2012Sundance U.S. Directing Award: DramaticAwardMiddle of NowhereFilm, 2012Director, Writer2009Compton in C MinorFilm, Director2008This Is the LifeFilm, Director, Producer2006Saturday Night LifeFilm, Director, Writer2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series1997The ViewSeries1979CBS News Sunday MorningSeries1972Born24 August 1972

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  • 13th 2016
  • Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now 2019
  • Life Itself 2014
  • Selma 2014
  • The White Tiger 2021

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Filmography 33

106 credits on file

Television 24

Media & music

In their own words 1

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Ava DuVernay
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One statement

  1. Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.

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Awards

International Emmy Founders Award2022
VH1 Trailblazer Honors2019
Time 1002017
Dorothy Arzner Directors Award2015
Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award2013
Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic2012

About this person

After making her directoral debut, I Will Follow (2010), DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1972 · age 54

In the same film or series as Ava

Priyanka ChopraAlso in The White Tiger (2021)Dijon TaltonAlso in I Will Follow (2010)Rowan BlanchardAlso in A Wrinkle in Time (2018)Victoria PedrettiAlso in Origin (2023)Dylan BakerAlso in Selma (2014)