Roger Ross Williams
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.
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Films (48)
How to Build a Library
2025 · Executive Producer
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
2025 · Executive Producer
The Battle for Laikipia
2024 · Executive Producer
Stone Mountain
2024 · Executive Producer
La Voix de Makayla : Lettres au monde
2024 · Executive Producer
Through Sunless Ways
2023 · Executive Producer
Racisme : Une autre histoire de l'Amérique
2023 · Producer, Director, Executive Producer
Cassandro
2023 · Director, Screenplay
TLC Forever
2023 · Executive Producer's Assistant
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
2023 · Director, Producer
Magic Ring
2022 · Executive Producer
Civil: Ben Crump
2022 · Producer
Master of Light
2022 · Producer
Ranger
2021 · Producer
Between the World and Me
2020 · Executive Producer
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion
2019 · Executive Producer
Jaiquan's Sketch
2019 · Director
Après Maria
2019 · Executive Producer
L'Apollo
2019 · Writer, Director, Producer
Traveling While Black
2019 · Director
Take Back the Harbor
2018 · Director
American Jail
2018 · Producer, Director, Screenplay
The Rachel Divide
2018 · Executive Producer
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
2016 · Director
Life, Animated
2016 · Director, Producer
Blackface
2015 · Director
Blackface
2015 · Self
Gospel of Intolerance
2015 · Director
Tutu: The Essence of Being Human
2014 · Director, Producer
God Loves Uganda
2013 · Director, Writer, Producer
Music by Prudence
2010 · Producer, Director
Alone No Love
2007 · Producer
Amazing Families
2006 · Director, Writer, Producer
Moroccan Style
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer
New York Underground
2003 · Writer, Director, Producer
First Off The Tee
2003 · Director, Producer, Writer
Power, Privilege & Justice
2003 · Producer, Writer, Director
The Lives They Lived
2003 · Producer, Writer, Director
Boys Will Be Girls
2003 · Director
Secret Son
2002 · Director, Producer
Challenge America With Erin Brockovich
2001 · Director
Time
2001 · Producer, Director
Reagan: A Life In Pictures
2000 · Director, Producer, Writer
Discovered at Sundance
1997 · Director, Producer
Sex, Drugs and Consequences
1996 · Producer
People Yearbook '95
1995 · Producer
The Empire of Ebony
· Producer
Strange Arrivals
· Director, Executive Producer
Séries (16)
Le complexe de la sauveuse
2023 · Executive Producer
Les Supermodels
2023 · Executive Producer, Director, Creator
1619
2023 · Executive Producer, Director
La Part du lion : Comment la cuisine afro-américaine a changé les États-Unis
2021 · Executive Producer, Director
One Story Up
2020 · Host, Director, Executive Producer
Preuves d'innocence
2020 · Executive Producer, Director, Creator
Nos amis les chiens
2018 · Director
The New Yorker Presents
2016 · Director
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
Undercover Boss
2010 · Director
Made in Hollywood
2005 · Self
Life 360
2002 · Producer
Sheila Bridges: Designer Living
2002 · Director, Producer, Writer, Creator
Independent Lens
1999 · Director
Storyville
1997 · Director
POV
1988 · Executive Producer