Roger Ross Williams
Directing • AGE 63
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 Prudenc...
Filmography
How to Build a Library
Executive Producer
2025
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
Executive Producer
2025
The Battle for Laikipia
Executive Producer
2024
Stone Mountain
Executive Producer
2024
Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
Executive Producer
2024
Through Sunless Ways
Executive Producer
2023
Stamped from the Beginning
Producer
2023
Savior Complex
Executive Producer
2023
The Super Models
Executive Producer
2023
Cassandro
Director
2023
TLC Forever
Executive Producer's Assistant
2023
Love to Love You, Donna Summer
Director
2023
The 1619 Project
Executive Producer
2023
Magic Ring
Executive Producer
2022
Civil: Ben Crump
Producer
2022
Master of Light
Producer
2022
Ranger
Producer
2021
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Executive Producer
2021
Between the World and Me
Executive Producer
2020
One Story Up
Host
2020
The Innocence Files
Executive Producer
2020
The Remix: Hip Hop x Fashion
Executive Producer
2019
After Maria
Executive Producer
2019
The Apollo
Co-Producer
2019
Traveling While Black
Director
2019
Dogs
Director
2018
Take Back the Harbor
Director
2018
American Jail
Producer
2018
The Rachel Divide
Executive Producer
2018
Land of the Lost Sidekicks
Director
2016
Life, Animated
Director
2016
The New Yorker Presents
Director
2016
Blackface
Self
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
God Loves Uganda
Director
2013
Music by Prudence
Producer
2010
Undercover Boss
Director
2010
Alone No Love
Producer
2007
Made in Hollywood
Self
2005
New York Underground
Writer
2003
Boys Will Be Girls
Director
2003
Independent Lens
Director
1999
Storyville
Director
1997