Biography
Roger Ross Williams is the director of God Loves Uganda, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim, and Music by Prudence, which won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). His latest film, Life, Animated, is based on a book by Pulitzer Prize‒winning journalist Ron Suskind. Williams was the first African American to win an Academy Award for directing or producing a film (short or feature).
Sundance Film Festival
Director
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2023 |
Cassandro |
Documentaries | |
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2023 |
Love to Love You, Donna Summer |
Stamped from the Beginning |
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The 1619 Project (series) |
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Justice (E06) |
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Democracy (E01) |
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The Super Models (series) |
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The Legacy (E04) |
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The Power (E03) |
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The Fame (E02) |
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The Look (E01) |
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2021 |
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America (series) |
Our Founding Chefs (S01E03) |
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The Rice Kingdom (S01E02) |
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Our Roots (S01E01) |
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2020 |
The Innocence Files (series) |
The Evidence: The Duty to Correct (E03) |
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The Evidence: The Truth Will Defend Me (E02) |
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The Evidence: Indeed and Without Doubt (E01) |
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2019 |
The Apollo |
Traveling While Black |
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2018 |
Dogs (series) |
Scissors Down (S01E04) |
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Take Back the Harbor |
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2016 |
Life, Animated |
The Man Without a Mask |
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2013 |
God Loves Uganda |
2010 |
Music by Prudence |
Screenwriter
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2023 |
Cassandro |
Documentaries | |
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2019 |
The Apollo |
2016 |
Life, Animated |
2013 |
God Loves Uganda |
Producer
Documentaries | |
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2023 |
Love to Love You, Donna Summer |
Stamped from the Beginning |
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2022 |
Civil: Ben Crump |
Master of Light |
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2021 |
Ranger |
2016 |
Life, Animated |
Guest
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2015 |
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter |