Kemp Powers
American playwright and screenwriter · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1973 · age 53
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).
Kemp Powers is read about 79 times a day, in 8 languages.
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Amy Pascal Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Brian Michael Bendis Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Peter Ramsey Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Rodney Rothman Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Bob Persichetti Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Phil Lord Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Christopher Miller Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
John Mulaney Kemp directed Lunik Heist
Jared Leto Kemp directed Lunik Heist
Lupita Nyong'o Kemp directed Lunik Heist
Regina King Directed One Night in Miami... (2020)
Avi Arad Produced Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Dan Scanlon Produced Soul (2020)
Joaquim Dos Santos Also in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
David Callaham Also in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
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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.
