There is prolific, and then there is Roger Ross Williams. The Oscar-, Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, who became the first African American director to win an Academy Award in 2009 with ...

Oscar winner and Academy member Roger Ross Williams is saying publicly what many in the documentary community have stewed over privately – that the sums of money being spent on Oscar documentary ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has won numerous honors in his career – an Academy Award for Music by Prudence, Primetime Emmy Awards for The 1619 Project and The Apollo, two News and ...

Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano at the Deadline Studio at SXSW Film and Television Festival on March 12, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Josh Telles for Deadline.

Filmmaker Roger Ross Williams (left) is presented with the Impact Award from the Miami Film Festival by MFF executive director James Woolley. Miami Film Festival.

Director Roger Ross Williams has lived with the story of Saúl “Cassandro” Armendáriz for seven years, ever since he made the 2016 short documentary Man Without a Mask, itself adapted from ...

Roger Ross Williams travels a lot. The director and producer spent this past April to July in Mexico City working on his first scripted feature film. “I was on set with all of these great actors ...

There is prolific, and then there is Roger Ross Williams. The Oscar-, Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, who became the first African American director to win an Academy Award in 2009 with ...

ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR, “CASSANDRO,” “STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING”AND “THE SUPER MODELS”: Yes, it’s great to be here. Thank you. MARTIN: So, Academy Award-winning director.

Roger Ross Williams is having quite the year. So far, the Oscar-winning director has released his first fiction film, Amazon Studios’ “Cassandro”; the HBO documentary “Love to Love You, ...

A portrayal of Phillis Wheatley from Roger Ross Williams' Netflix documentary "Stamped from the Beginning." Courtesy of Netflix “It’s to everyone’s benefit to live in an anti-racist society ...

Director Roger Ross Williams has lived with the story of Saúl “Cassandro” Armendáriz for seven years, ever since he made the 2016 short documentary Man Without a Mask, itself adapted from ...