Sentences with phrase «first black director»

At Sunday's Oscars, actor, screenwriter and director Jordan Peele made cinematic history, becoming the first black director to win an Oscar for best screenplay.

Produced for just $ 5 million (which is shoestring budget by industry standards), it dominated at the box office, making Peele the first black director to make $ 100 million for a debut film.

Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is also the first black director since Steve McQueen (2013's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) to be recognized for Best Director, a category that's only nominated four black men — John Singleton, Lee Daniels, McQueen and Jenkins — since the award was first handed out in 1929.

Marvel, to its credit, took a chance on the film, handing over $ 200 million to Ryan Coogler, the first black director to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and to an all - black cast, to make a movie set in Africa.

He's the first black director of a Marvel movie.

Peele could become the first black director to win the Academy Award.

Skimming further down their list of winners shows Steve McQueen taking Best Director for his work on «12 Years a Slave»; the first black director chosen in their 79 - year history.

Director Gordon Parks, Sr (the first black director to helm a Hollywood studio film, The Learning Tree) hired Richard Roundtree to play John Shaft, a black superhero and renegade detective.

If he wins, he'll become the first black director to ever win the Best Director Oscar — yes, you read that right.

On Sunday night, McQueen became the first black director to take home the highest honor of the night: the best picture statuette for his heart - rending «12 Years a Slave,» the true story about Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York who was kidnapped and auctioned into slavery.

The Academy still has time for a few more historic moments; Jordan Peele could be the first black director to take home the Best Director prize, or Greta Gerwig could be the second woman ever to win the same distinction.

Another was Get Out's Jordan Peele, who became the first black director to be nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture in one year, and the first black director to have his debut film nominated in all three of those categories.

(Last year, Gray became the first black director to make a $ 1 billion hit with «The Fate of the Furious.»)

Ryan Coogler becomes the first black director in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks to «Black Panther.»

It's a film of many firsts: «Black Panther's» protagonist T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the king of a secretive African nation, is the first black character to lead a Marvel cinematic universe film, while Ryan Coogler is the first black director of a Marvel film.

I wholeheartedly disagree with this — A Wrinkle in Time delivered on both of these promises and made Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler the first black directors to have the number one and two $ 100 million movies at the box office.

Will they feel overwhelmed if Steve McQueen wins to become the first black director to win in their history?

#OscarsSoWhite No More -LRB-- ish) Almost a year to the day after the Sundance sneak - peek premiere of Get Out, Jordan Peele made history this morning, becoming the first black director nominated for Picture, Director and Screenplay for his debut film.

Get Out director Jordan Peele has made history, becoming the first black director to make $ 100 million with his debut film.

Get Out could come along and win and make Oscar history with the first black director taking home a statuette.

Steve McQueen won best picture for «12 Years a Slave,» the first black director to do so in Oscars» 86 - year history.

With The Learning Tree in 1969, he became the first black director of a Hollywood film.

For Muir, the key consideration is the fearlessness the right artist can bring to cinema: «This is the route, we should remember, that gave us not only the first black director to win the best film Oscar, but also the first woman to win an Oscar.