Ava Duvernay

Ava DuVernay

Ava Marie DuVernay is an American filmmaker. She is a recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a BAFTA Film Award, and a BAFTA TV Award, as well as a nominee for an Academy Award and Golden Globe. In 2011, she founded her independent distribution company ARRAY. After making her directoral debut, I Will Follow, DuVernay won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere, becoming the first black woman to win the award. For her work on Selma, a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the film went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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• Entity:  Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Film Publicist

• Born:  Ava Marie Duvernay, August 24, 1972, Long Beach, California, U.s.
• Age:  54 Years
• Education:  University Of California, Los Angeles (Ba)
• Occupation:  Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Film Publicist
• Born:  24 August 1972
• Wikidata description:  American Film Director
• Wikidata label:  Ava Duvernay
• Wikidata aliases:  Ava Duvernay, Ava Marie Duvernay

• Related Topics:  Writers From Long Beach, California, African-American Television Directors, African-American Television Producers, African-American Film Producers, Louisiana Creole People, African-American Screenwriters, American Public Relations People, African-American Film Directors, Television Producers From California, Sundance Film Festival Award Winners