Roger Ross Williams

Born: 1962-09-16, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1962) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Ross Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• Point of View (1988)
• Storyville (1997)
• Undercover Boss (2010)
• Savior Complex (2023)
• American Jail (2018)
• The 1619 Project (2023)
• Cassandro (2023)
• High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (2021)
• Stamped from the Beginning (2023)
• Life, Animated (2016)
• The Apollo (2019)
• Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023)
• Traveling While Black (2019)
• God Loves Uganda (2013)
• Land of the Lost Sidekicks (2016)
• Take Back the Harbor (2018)
• Music by Prudence (2010)