Roger Ross Williams

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Roger Ross Williams

Roger Ross Williams (born April 13, 1973 ) is an American television and film director . In 2010 he won an Oscar for the documentary Music by Prudence .

Life

Williams comes from a Gullah- speaking family in South Carolina . Since 1985 he has lived and worked in New York .

Williams worked as a producer and director a. a. for the television station ABC , CBS and Comedy Central and TV series as was Life 360 (2002), Designer Living: Sheila Bridges (2005), Undercover Boss (2010) and the Emmy -prämierten news show TV Nation by Michael Moore worked. He has also worked for numerous news programs such as ABC News , NBC News , BBC and CNN . Reality shows and numerous documentaries, for example for the Discovery Channel, were also part of his repertoire. He also produced several television films, for which he was awarded a NAMIC Vision Award for Moroccan Style and a National Headliner Award for the film New York Underground .

For his 2010 documentary, Music by Prudence , which tells the story of the 21-year-old singer Prudence Mabhena from Zimbabwe , Williams and co-producer Elinor Burkett won an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short at the 2010 Academy Awards . This makes Williams the first African American to win an award for best director or production. Williams' acceptance speech caused a bit of a scandal when Burkett also took the stage and interrupted him. Burkett felt responsible for the film too, since she came up with the idea; However, she had already been released from her role in the project a year earlier due to differences. The film won other awards at the Florida Film Festival , the Africa World Documentary Film Festival and the DocuWest Film Festival .

In 2013 his film God Loves Uganda premiered at the Sundance Film Festival . The documentary deals with the connection between Western Christian missionarism and homophobia in Uganda . For the production of the film Life, Animated , he was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary in 2017 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995: People Yearbook '95 (producer)
  • 1996: Sex, Drugs and Consequences (producer)
  • 1997: Discovered at Sundance (producer)
  • 2003: New York Underground (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2003: The Lives They Lived (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2005: Sheila Bridges Designer Living: Morocco Special (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2010: Music by Prudence (short film) (director, producer)
  • 2013: God Loves Uganda (Director, Producer)
  • 2016: Life, Animated (Director, Producer)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Ross Williams: a case study in choosing your collaborators wisely article on walletpop.com of March 8, 2010 (English)
  2. ↑ Offended Roger Ross Williams Explains Elinor Burkett's Oscar Interruption! ( Memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Article on gossip.whyfame.com from March 9, 2010 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Roger Ross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH South Carolina , USA