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We wanted to show you 20 BLACK DIRECTORS whose filmographies (movies and shows) you need to watch! Some of them are new to the scene, like Nia DaCosta and Tayarisha Poe but regardless, give their movies a watch. This isn’t a ranking. Here’s the list:
Ava DuVernay
Selected Filmography: Selma, Queen Sugar, When They See Us
Amma Asante
Selected Filmography: Belle, Mrs. America, Where Hands Touch
Dee Rees
Selected Filmography: Mudbound, Pariah, Bessie
Stella Meghie

Selected Filmography: The Photograph, The Weekend, Insecure (2 episodes)
Kasi Lemmons
Selected Filmography: Harriet, Eve’s Bayou
Spike Lee

Spike Lee arrives for the 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, USA, 24 February 2019. The Oscars are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts in 24 categories in filmmaking.
Arrivals – 91st Academy Awards, Los Angeles, USA – 24 Feb 2019
Selected Filmography: Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, She’s Gotta Have It, Blackkklansman, Da 5 Bloods
Malcolm D. Lee

Selected Filmography: Girls Trip, Undercover Brother, The Best Man
Ryan Coogler
Selected Filmography: Black Panther, Creed (I and II), Fruitvale Station
Steve McQueen
Selected Filmography: 12 Years a Slave, Shame, Hunger, Widows
Barry Jenkins
Selected Filmography: Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Medicine for Melancholy, My Josephine
Lee Daniels

Selected Filmography: Empire (Creator) Precious, Lee Daniels’ The Butler,
Boots Riley

Boots Riley arrives at the 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards, in Santa Monica, Calif
2019 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Arrivals, Santa Monica, USA – 23 Feb 2019
Selected Filmography: Sorry to Bother You (Debut)
Tyler Perry

Selected Filmography: Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion, Why Did I Get Married?
Jordan Peele

Selected Filmography: Us, Get Out
Nia DaCosta
Selected Filmography: Little Woods, Candyman
Antoine Fuqua
Selected Filmography: Training Day, The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven (2016), Olympus Has Fallen
Rick Famuyiwa
Selected Filmography: Dope, The Mandalorian (2 Episodes), The Chi (Exec Producer)
John Singleton – Rest in Power
Selected Filmography: Poetic Justice, Boyz n the Hood, Shaft (2000), Baby Boy, Four Brothers
F Gary Gray

F. Gary Gray attends the world premiere of Universal Pictures’ “The Fate of the Furious” at Radio City Music Hall, in New York
World Premiere of “The Fate of the Furious”, New York, USA – 8 Apr 2017
Selected Filmography: Friday, Set It Off, The Negotiator, The Italian Job, Straight Outta Compton
Robert Townsend

Selected Filmography: Hollywood Shuffle, The Meteor Man, The Parent Hood