Biography
Barry Jenkins (born November 19, 1979) is an American filmmaker. After making his filmmaking debut with the short film My Josephine (2003), he directed his first feature film, Medicine for Melancholy (2008), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. He is also a member of The Chopstars collective as a creative collaborator.
Following an eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Jenkins directed and co-wrote the LGBT-themed independent drama Moonlight (2016), which won numerous accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Picture. Jenkins received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and jointly won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Tarell Alvin McCraney. He became the fourth Black person to be nominated for Best Director and the second Black person to direct a Best Picture winner. He released his third directorial feature, If Beale Street Could Talk, in 2018 to critical praise and earned nominations for his screenplay at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
He is also known for his work in television. Jenkins directed "Chapter V" of the Netflix series Dear White People in 2017. In 2021, he created and directed the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad based on the novel of the same name and received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series or Movie nomination and won a Peabody Award. In 2017, Jenkins was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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Filmography
all 41
Movies 33
Producer 15
Director 14
TV Shows 8
self 5
Writer 2
The Fire Inside (2024)
Another Young Couple (2023)
Weapons and Their Names (2023)
Aftersun (2022)
The Underground Railroad (2021)
The Gaze (2021)
Neighbors (2021)
I Wish You Would (2021)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Dear White People (2017)
Moonlight (2016)
Reagan (2016)
Inside Voices (2014)
The High Five (2014)
Trailblazer Honors (2014)
True Detective (2014)
King's Gym (2013)
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse (2013)
Chlorophyl (2011)
Remigration (2011)
Tall Enough (2009)
A Young Couple (2009)
One Shot (2009)
Medicine for Melancholy (2009)
Little Brown Boy (2003)
My Josephine (2003)
Untitled Alvin Ailey Project
The Intuitionist
Bump, Spike
Night Bloom
Preparation for the Next Life
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1979-11-19 (45 years old)
Birth PlaceMiami, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States
AwardsTime 100, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
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