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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 and Brooklyn Sudano at the Deadline Studio at SXSW Film and Television Festival on March 12, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Josh Telles for Deadline.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams has much to celebrate this weekend. His first narrative/fiction film, Cassandro, opens theatrically today. And he has just been named the recipient of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’m really happy that Brooklyn and Roger Ross Williams have finally told Donna’s story. I was the young man that became Donna’s first love back then in 1968 in Munich.
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 ...