Biography
Barry Jenkins is an award-winning writer and director based in San Francisco. He is best known for writing and directing the 2016 film Moonlight, which won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The website ‘They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?’ lists Moonlight as the 22nd most acclaimed film of the 21st century. In 2022, Sight and Sound crowned Moonlight the 60th greatest film of all time based on responses from 1,639 critics. His following film, ‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ was also met with critical acclaim and was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one. His feature film debut, Medicine for Melancholy, was released in theaters by IFC Films and hailed as one of the best films of 2009 by A.O. Scott of The New York Times. Filmmaker also named Jenkins one of their “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Other projects include the shorts Tall Enough and A Young Couple, and the television series ‘The Underground Railroad.’
Filmography
all 35
Movies 28
Director 16
Producer 9
TV Shows 7
Writer 4
self 3
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
Flint Strong (2024)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
Another Young Couple (2023)
Weapons and Their Names (2023)
Aftersun (2022)
The Underground Railroad (2021)
The Gaze (2021)
I Wish You Would (2021)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Charm City Kings (2020)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' (2018)
Dear White People (2017)
Moonlight (2016)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Inside Voices (2014)
The High Five (2014)
Trailblazer Honors (2014)
True Detective (2014)
King's Gym (2013)
Sun Don't Shine (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 (2008)
Little Brown Boy (2003)
My Josephine (2003)
The Daily Show (1996)
Bump, Spike
Untitled Alvin Ailey Project
Untitled Barry Jenkins 'Virunga' Adaptation
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1979-11-19 (44 years old)
Birth PlaceMiami, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesLos Angeles, United States of America
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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