Barry Jenkins
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.’
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DirectingBirthday
November 19, 1979Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
28Place of birth
Miami, Florida, USACast credits
Crew credits
Medicine for Melancholy
Director, WriterA Young Couple
DirectorMy Josephine
Director, WriterLittle Brown Boy
Director, WriterTall Enough
Director, WriterMoonlight
Director, ScreenplayOne Shot
DirectorKing's Gym
DirectorIf Beale Street Could Talk
Director, Screenplay, ProducerUntitled Alvin Ailey Project
Director, Executive ProducerThe Fire Inside
Writer, ProducerCharm City Kings
StoryNever Rarely Sometimes Always
Executive ProducerMufasa: The Lion King
DirectorAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
ProducerThe Gaze
DirectorAftersun
ProducerSun Don't Shine
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